Tristan England Wins BKT Freestyle World Championship at World Finals

Tristan England (JCB DIGatron) won the BKT Freestyle World Championship at Monster Jam World Finals XXV at the Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, UT Saturday night.

It is his first Freestyle World Championship, and caps off an impressive weekend after he was runner-up to Tyler Menninga (Grave Digger) in the JCB Racing World Championship earlier on in the night.

Going into Saturday’s content, Dalton Widner (Shell Shock’ed) held the Freestyle lead with a score of 8.769 from Friday night.

It wasn’t until Fernando Martinez – El Toro Loco Stars & Stripes – went out as the sixth truck on Saturday, that Widner was dethroned as Fernando performed two backflips into moonwalks and scored an 8.764.

Martinez held the lead for the next six runs – even after Adam Anderson (Grave Digger The Legend) – performed a run that got a score of 9.458 from the fans, but averaged out to a 8.490 with the Expert Judges’ Score.

Tristan hit the track late on in the night and delivered an energetic run which included a “Kahuna flip” during his run, and then ended with a backflip into moonwalk into a reverse jump, that netted him a score of 9.097.

There was just one competitor left – Ryan Anderson in Son-uva Digger. Anderson delivered a solid run, but came up short with a score of 8.996 – placing him second overall.