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Monster Jam Fans at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium were treated to an actual R/C Monster Truck Racing event held at the Built Ford Tough Party in the Pits January 19, 2008. The day started out early Saturday Morning as the No Limit R/C of Florida Demo Team met up at Central Florida Hobbies in Orlando, Florida to cruse on over to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. We arrived just before 9am to start constructing the racing course. We set up the track similar to a real side by side stadium style obstacle course with lexan crush car bodies provided by HPI Racing. We also set up our Race America Christmas Tree timing system to provide a scale and accurate day of head to head qualifying and single elimination racing. Each R/C monster truck sported a replica body of some of the full size monster trucks that were in attendance. Drivers were introduced to music similar to a real live Monster Jam event Introduction. Racing action heated up with Bari Musawwir's Grave Digger taking on Walter Cruz and his Raminator in the final round. After the dust settled Bari's Grave Digger Crossed the line first but was assessed a 1 second penalty for knocking down a turning pole which gave Walter the racing win. Much to the chagrin of the huge gathering of spectators, racing was in the books. That meant it was time for the HPI Racing freestyle event to round out the demo. Trucks were pushed to the Limit with big jumps, doughnuts, and wheelies from every angle imaginable. No Limit's Tom Dixon, Bari Musawwir and Zeek Heard handed out roughly 600 HPI stickers to all the young future R/C Monster Truckers in the crowd through out the day. Judging by the photos coutousy of Eric Garneau it's safe to say No Limit R/C of Florida defiantly got the fans geared up for the Monster Jam Main event!
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