3rd Place - Tyler Menninga - 2025 Monster Truck Racing Open Championship

Congratulations to TYLER MENNINGA for his 3^rd place finish in the 2025 Monster Truck Racing Open Championship! Tyler has won the Open Championship 3 times (2019, 2020, and 2023) and was the 2^nd driver to win back-to-back championships and first driver to win three.

This is the 5^th time that Tyler has scored more than 10,000 points in a season. His 15 wins this season would be impressive for most drivers, but is actually only half of his win totals from the past two seasons (32 and 31 respectively).

It was a frustrating season for Tyler Menninga. Granted, that frustrating season still resulted in him winning the Monster Jam Stadium Championship series on the final event of the season in Pittsburgh over Bari Musawwir, so clearly still an excellent season. But Tyler was also plagued with mechanical issues throughout the tour. After a tepid start in Hampton, Virginia (1 win, 2 finals, and 1 DNC) he won the first five Stadium Series events and added two more tour wins in San Antonio and Houston before February had ended. Tyler stayed in the Top 3 spots all season long and held the #1 ranking at this time. March was a rough one for the 3-time Open Champ: quarter-final losses in Detroit, Jacksonville, Foxborough, and Philadelphia. First round loss in Freedom Hall. A win in Indianapolis, but a loss of the top spot on the Stadium Tour to Bari Musawwir and the Zombie team.

But Tyler ended the Stadium Series with wins in East Rutherford and Pittsburgh to claim his 7^th Monster Jam Tour championship. After having the summer off, he joined the late-season Freestyle Mania tour which ran on the short, indoor courses that Menninga dominated during his first two Open Championships. This year was different, though, with as he struggled out of the gate with 3 first round loses in Sacramento (including one from a turn pole violation), 3 semi-final loses in Fresno, and a first round loss in Los Angeles.

He did pick up 2 wins in Los Angeles which put him back into contention for the Open Championship and had him poised to be the first and only driver to have won 4 Open Championships. At the season finale in Saint Louis, he benefitted from Tristan England’s starting light problems and raced his way to the final round, but lost out to Zack Garner in the finals and missed out on the important points he needed to keep ahead of Bill Payne.

So in the end, Tyler places third this year in the Open Championship, ended another impressive season of monster truck racing. Since we started the MTROC in 2019, no one else is even close to Tyler Menninga in terms of total points (now 72,816!) and his 162 wins in second only because Jimmy Creten rattled off 40 wins on his own four-truck tour this season. Congrats to Tyler on continuing to succeed at the highest level in the sport.

===== 2025 TYLER MENNINGA SEASON RECAP =====

10/11 Fri Ngt : Monster Jam @ Hampton, VA = *** WINNER *** (294 pts)

10/12 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ Hampton, VA = (did not compete) (0 pts)

10/12 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Hampton, VA = RunnerUp (196 pts)

10/13 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Hampton, VA = Lost in semi-finals (98 pts)

10/25 Fri Ngt : Monster Jam @ Bridgeport, CT = (non-points event) (0 pts)

10/26 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ Bridgeport, CT = (non-points event) (0 pts)

10/26 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Bridgeport, CT = (non-points event) (0 pts)

10/27 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Bridgeport, CT = (non-points event) (0 pts)

11/2 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ Dayton, OH = *** WINNER *** (324 pts)

11/2 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Dayton, OH = Lost in first round (0 pts)

11/3 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Dayton, OH = *** WINNER *** (324 pts)

1/4 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ San Diego, CA = *** WINNER *** (448 pts)

1/5 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ San Diego, CA = *** WINNER *** (448 pts)

1/11 Sat Eve : Monster Jam @ San Diego, CA = *** WINNER *** (448 pts)

1/12 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ San Diego, CA = *** WINNER *** (448 pts)

1/18 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Anaheim, CA = *** WINNER *** (448 pts)

1/19 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Anaheim, CA = RunnerUp (336 pts)

1/25 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ San Antonio, TX = Lost in quarter-finals (112 pts)

1/26 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ San Antonio, TX = *** WINNER *** (468 pts)

2/1 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Houston, TX = Lost in quarter-finals (112 pts)

2/2 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Houston, TX = Lost in quarter-finals (112 pts)

2/8 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Houston, TX = *** WINNER *** (448 pts)

2/14 Fri Ngt : Monster Jam @ Cleveland, OH = (non-points event) (0 pts)

2/15 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ Cleveland, OH = (non-points event) (0 pts)

2/15 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Cleveland, OH = (non-points event) (0 pts)

2/16 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Cleveland, OH = (non-points event) (0 pts)

2/22 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Detroit, MI = Lost in quarter-finals (112 pts)

2/23 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Detroit, MI = Lost in semi-finals (224 pts)

3/1 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Orlando, FL = Lost in semi-finals (224 pts)

3/8 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Jacksonville, FL = Lost in quarter-finals (112 pts)

3/15 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Indianapolis, IN = Lost in semi-finals (224 pts)

3/16 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Indianapolis, IN = *** WINNER *** (448 pts)

3/22 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Louisville, KY = Lost in semi-finals (120 pts)

3/23 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Louisville, KY = Lost in first round (0 pts)

3/29 Sat Eve : Monster Jam @ Birmingham, AL = Lost in semi-finals (224 pts)

4/5 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ New Orleans, LA = Lost in semi-finals (224 pts)

4/12 Sat Eve : Monster Jam @ Foxborough, MA = Lost in quarter-finals (112 pts)

4/26 Sat Eve : Monster Jam @ Philadelphia, PA = Lost in quarter-finals (112 pts)

5/3 Sat Eve : Monster Jam @ East Rutherford, NJ = *** WINNER *** (448 pts)

5/17 Sat Eve : Monster Jam @ Pittsburgh, PA = *** WINNER *** (448 pts)

7/4 Fri Ngt : Monster Jam World Finals @ Salt Lake City, UT = Lost in quarter-finals (238 pts)

8/1 Fri Ngt : Monster Jam @ Las Vegas, NV = (non-points event) (0 pts)

8/2 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ Las Vegas, NV = (non-points event) (0 pts)

8/2 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Las Vegas, NV = (non-points event) (0 pts)

8/3 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Las Vegas, NV = (non-points event) (0 pts)

8/9 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ Sacramento, CA = Lost in first round (0 pts)

8/9 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Sacramento, CA = Lost in first round (0 pts)

8/10 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Sacramento, CA = Lost in first round (0 pts)

8/15 Fri Ngt : Monster Jam @ Fresno, CA = Lost in semi-finals (123 pts)

8/16 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ Fresno, CA = Lost in semi-finals (123 pts)

8/16 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Fresno, CA = RunnerUp (246 pts)

8/17 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Fresno, CA = Lost in semi-finals (123 pts)

8/22 Fri Ngt : Monster Jam @ Los Angeles, CA = RunnerUp (246 pts)

8/23 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ Los Angeles, CA = Lost in first round (0 pts)

8/23 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ Los Angeles, CA = *** WINNER *** (369 pts)

8/24 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Los Angeles, CA = *** WINNER *** (360 pts)

8/24 Sun Ngt : Monster Jam @ Los Angeles, CA = RunnerUp (240 pts)

8/29 Fri Ngt : Monster Jam @ San Jose, CA = (non-points event) (0 pts)

8/30 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ San Jose, CA = (non-points event) (0 pts)

8/30 Sat Ngt : Monster Jam @ San Jose, CA = (non-points event) (0 pts)

8/31 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ San Jose, CA = (non-points event) (0 pts)

9/5 Fri Ngt : Monster Jam @ Oakland, CA = (non-points event) (0 pts)

9/6 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ Oakland, CA = (non-points event) (0 pts)

9/7 Sun Aft : Monster Jam @ Oakland, CA = (non-points event) (0 pts)

9/20 Sat Aft : Monster Jam @ Saint Louis, MO = RunnerUp (381 pts)