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Randy Brown (born June 16th, 1972) is a monster truck driver and former owner out of Camden, North Carolina. He was the owner of Randy Brown Motorsports, which included Pure Adrenalin and is most well-known for driving Grave Digger from 2003-2022.

Early life[]

Randy’s father involved in tractor pulling. Randy himself built motors for his dad and other competitors. Randy started driving his dad's truck puller, "Sweet Thang" once he got his driver’s license. He won the very first pull he entered. Brown campaigned his own pull truck, "Special Effect", in 1992 before selling it and purchasing "Thoroughbred" in 1993, which ran alongside his dad's “Sweet Thang”.

Career[]

In 1998, Randy commissioned Dan Patrick to build him a chassis, which would become Pure Adrenalin.

In 2000, Randy’s truck would debut at Darlington, but with Gary Porter driving as Brown did not have a special license to drive at the time. Brown also ran a USA-1 body on the truck for parts of his rookie year.

It is believed that Randy drove Orlando Rage in Orlando 2001 with Gary Porter. He would fill-in for Brian Barthel in Wolverine in late 2001 in Minneapolis.

In 2003, Brown joined Team Grave Digger and made his Grave Digger debut in Des Moines.

In 2004, Brown and his team won the "Team of the Year" award.

In 2006, he drove the U.S. Air Force Afterburner in Pittsburgh on Friday night as a fill-in. He was invited to the World Finals and drove Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He was invited again the next year, but didn't freestyle as he broke in round 1.

In 2008, he got the most TV exposure in Grave Digger as Dennis Anderson was competing on the west coast. At World Finals 9, Randy performed an encore freestyle in TMNT in between round 1 and 2 and make a brief return in the freestyle encore. Randy drove Jurassic Attack in Arnhem.

In 2012, his Pure Adrenaline ride truck was converted back into a Grave Digger ride truck in a full circle moment as the chassis was Grave Digger 11. Pure Adrenaline itself retired.

In 2014, he drove Man of Steel at World Finals 15 and in that year's European tour along with Thor.

For the World Finals 17 encore, he drove the Marines truck.

In 2017, he competed in Arena Championship Series 4 where he would win the championship. He would compete in Grave Digger at World Finals 18 after teammate Cole Venard was dropped from the line-up after the birth of his daughter. Randy drove Blue Thunder in Riyadh & Beijing.

In 2018, he competed on Stadium Championship Series 4 where he would launch Grave Digger after a huge jump & crash hard in Detroit. The truck ended up back on its wheels. Randy would win Crash Madness of the year for this. He would finish 4th in the tour. For the World Finals 19 encore, he drove Rampage (Ralph).  In July, at the Saturday night Halifax show, he won freestyle with 9.986. This was the highest score ever achieved since the Judgeszone.com voting system has been used. It was beaten by Blake Granger in Max-D at one of the San Jose, Costa Rica shows in 2024. Blake won the skills challenge with a 9.998.

In 2019, he would compete in the Arena Championship Series and would win the tour. He competed at World Finals 20 in Grave Digger, which was his most recent World Finals appearance.

In 2020, he would win the Arena Championship Series, due to the COVID-19 pandemic halting the sport. He would remain absent from Monster Jam until July 2021, where he returned to Grave Digger for the Pensacola events.

In 2022, he wouldn't drive full time, but would fill-in for multiple drivers throughout the season, including Armando Castro, Bernard Lyght and Coty Saucier. He would return to Grave Digger in London .

In 2023, he drove Blue Thunder in Cape Town, South Africa.

World Finals appearances[]

  • 2006 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
  • 2007 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle; Grave Digger (encore only)
  • 2008 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (encore only)
  • 2014 - Man of Steel
  • 2016 - Marines (encore only)
  • 2017 - Grave Digger 29
  • 2019 - Grave Digger 39

Awards[]

  • 2004 Team of the Year Award.
  • 2017 Arena Championship Series 4 winner.
  • 2018 Crash Madness of the Year.
  • 2019 Arena Championship Series winner.
  • 2020 Arena Championship Series winner.

Gallery[]

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