Mark List (born March 5th, 1990) is a retired Costa Rican monster truck driver out of Tilarán, Guanacaste. He drove El Toro Loco for most of his career.
Career[]
Mark List would start driving for Monster Jam in 2015, driving El Toro Loco, debuting at a Mexican show, and competed in select arena shows at the time for the rest of the season.
In 2016, Mark would start competing on point series', competing on the East More Monster Jam tour, which he would continue to do for six years until his last arena tour in 2020, where all events for the seasons would be cancelled in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mark would later remain on hiatus for the rest of year, and later for the entirety of the 2021 season.
In 2022, Mark would unexpectedly return to Monster Jam, making his stadium tour debut on Stadium Series Red. For the first show in San Antonio, he would shock the field by winning both overall event wins during the weekend. Following that, he would have a lot of ups and downs during the season, but it would ultimately be a successful season for him, finishing 6th on the series, and getting an invite to World Finals XXI, where he would perform well, getting a first round bye in racing at making it to round 3, and finishing 5th in freestyle, famously completing a backflip to moonwalk and almost making it up the middle ramp. Because of his success, he would continue to drive for post-first quarter shows during the summer. Mark also started doing Tom Meents' Maximum moonwalk off the backflip ramp during the skills challenge at some shows. Tom Meents, Colton Eichelberger, Adam Anderson & Brandon Vinson have also attempted this move. He drove Max-D in San Juan & Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
In 2023, Mark competed on Stadium Tour Blue. However, Mark would decide to retire from driving during the mid-point of the series to focus on his family life. Charlie Pauken filled in for him in Indianapolis, Anaheim, El Paso, and Arlington. Chelsea VanCleave drove for the Nampa, Vancouver, Seattle, & Glendale shows. Coty Saucier filled in for the rest of the tour, starting in Reno & ending in Kansas City.
World Finals appearances[]
- 2017 - El Toro Loco (DDS)
- 2018 - El Toro Loco (DDS)
- 2019 - El Toro Loco (DDS, Speedsters, and ATVs)
- 2022 - El Toro Loco (main field)
Accomplishments[]
- 2019 Arena Series Central runner-up
Trivia[]
- He started out his career with Monster Jam as a track construction crew member, before being chosen to train as a Monster Jam driver.
- It was believed his first truck was Spider-Man, due to the announcer in a press conference video for the 2014 Costa Rica events saying a name that sounds similar to his. Finally, the driver was revealed to be Scott Liddycoat instead. He would later be invited to drive El Diablo the next year, however due to his religion beliefs with the truck, he declined.
- Despite being Costa Rican, he speaks with an American accent, due to having moved to several places around the world as a track construction crew member and a traducer in some shows. He spoke his native Spanish language when he participated in Monster Jam's 2018 Costa Rica events. These shows would be considered "coming home" shows for Mark.
- At New Orleans 2022, Mark would run a Kermit the Frog plush, usually brought to shows by @avengersracing.
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