Hot take for the day: Cars, trucks, any land-based vehicle, should at all possible times maintain contact between tyre and ground.
That is my firm belief and I’m sorry if it offends.
Lee O’Connell, a monster truck driver and clear brazen lunatic out to spite me specifically for my finely-held views (sad!), has flaunted that rule in one of the most spectacularly egregious ways you’re ever likely to see.
O’Connell, the man in charge of the monster truck knowns as the Mad Scientist, made history overnight by becoming the first person to successfully land a front flip in a goddamned monster truck.
Oh, sure. You might scoff at that as a bare-bones concept. But the reality? The real reality of the whole shebang?
Shit is b a d a s s.
Lee O’Donnell lands first-ever front flip at Monster Jam World Finals in Vegas to win title pic.twitter.com/4qli5kuxMm
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) March 26, 2017
.@leeodonnell23 and #vpracingfuels lands the first-ever front flip to win the 2017 Monster Jam World Finals Freestyle Championship! pic.twitter.com/wl0wloaXyl
— Monster Jam (@MonsterJam) March 26, 2017
Popping a hella mono in a monster truck is probably difficult enough, but then using said mono to bous yourself into the air (in a goddamned full-sized monster truck), fang through an entire forward rotation, and then land wheels-side down after relying solely on gravity and good luck?
All the while there’s like… fire and pyro and maximum engine revving going on? Remind me again how this isn’t the most outrageously popular thing in the worl-oh, right. The energy drink saturation and the weird cooked units everywhere. I remember now.
Source: Twitter.
Photo: Dave Kotinsky/Getty.
