CHASING BAJA MOVIE PREMIERE PARTY WITH MONSTER ENERGY

The red carpet was laid out for all the celebs and featured characters in L.A. for the world premiere of Chasing Baja.

BALL OF STEAL STUNTS INVADE DALLAS AIRFORCE BASE!

The Ball of Steal Stunts show up and blow up for the troops in Dallas Ft. Worth.

This show is a high energy, fully self contained performance that features the performers inside an 18 ft steel globe as well as a freestyle show on mini bike.

Missed it? Well YOU MISSED IT

http://www.ballofsteel.com/1.html for more information

JUST Signed To The Monster Energy Army, Josh Hill Pays Instant Dividends With O/A Win At Minneapolis

Hill (Yamaha) wins his first-even premier AMA Supercross class main event

CORONA, Calif., (March 17, 2008) – Monster Energy’s newly acquired Josh Hill (Yamaha) stepped up and put his shiny new M-claw helmet up on top of the box at Minneapolis’ Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Round 11 of Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, this past Saturday.

Monster Energy’s Hill, in only his second year as pro and first year racing the premier AMA Supercross class, took over the lead from Ryan Dungey prior to lap four, then led the remaining 16 laps to take his first premier class main event win – giving Monster Energy its first premier class win since Monster Energy/Kawasaki’s James Stewart won round two of Monster Energy Supercross in Phoenix.

My whole family’s put everything they have into this,” said an elated Hill from the Metrodome podium. “Their whole lives. And it’s paying off. (I’m) just trying to make everybody proud.”

Trained by famed motocrosser Ryan Hughes (who also guides Monster Energy’s Jason Lawrence’s MX training), Hill’s had two premier class runner-up finishes – the last one coming a couple weeks ago at Indianapolis’ RCA Dome. But following that he had a DNF in the mud at Daytona International Speedway, which makes this win ever that much more special in that it came on the heels of such a tough result.

“Getting 2nd was amazing. But winning – I don’t even know how to put it into words,” said Hill.

With the winning effort Monster Energy’s Hill moves to within two points of fellow Monster Energy athlete Tim Ferry (Monster Energy/Kawasaki) in the top five overall in the AMA Supercross class standings – 137-135.

Next up for Monster Energy’s Hill is the Toronto round of 2008 Monster Energy Supercross at Rogers Centre, March 29th.

Monster Energy supports the sport. Be it MX, road racing, supermoto, off-road, FMX, skate, MTB, off-road, surf, snow, BMX – name it – the athletes are rockin’ Monster Energy more than anything these days. Check out all the types – Original Monster Energy, Monster Lo-Carb, Monster Assault, Monster Khaos, the new Monster/fruit juice hybrid called “M-80” and the ground-breaking Java Monster premium coffee & cream supercharged with our Monster Energy blend. Josh Hill digs ‘em – so will you. On the ‘Net at www.monsterenergy.com.

MONSTER ENERGY IMPACT AWARDS AFTER PARTY

Monster Energy Impact awards after party in Anaheim, California.

Monsterpiece in Metal Award -- an award sponsored by Monster Energy and awarded to one of the Masterpiece in Metal projects in DirtSports -- was awarded to Jeff Davis for his Class 7 by Normile Concepts -- dubbed the "Tiny Trophy Truck" by DirtSports Magazine

Wild Weekend Of Racing For Monster Energy-Backed AMA Superbike Championship Racers in Daytona!

Monster/Attack Kawasaki’s Chaz Davies awarded the Formula Xtreme Daytona 200 title when fellow Monster racer Josh Hayes is DQ’d

CORONA, Calif., (March 10, 2008) – Monster Energy’s AMA Superbike Championship road racers opened up the 2008 season with enough drama to last the entire summer thanks to a race win-yielding DQ in the Daytona 200 and crash resulting in injury for Monster Energy/Kawasaki’s defending Supersport class champion Roger Lee Hayden.

We’ll being with Hayden. While qualifying for the Superbike event this past Thursday morning, Hayden wadded up and torqued his wrist. But being as tough as they come with three other brothers that are fast as sharks on motorcycles, Roger Lee stepped up and only hours after his Superbike qualifying race would make the podium in the Supersport class (3rd).

“Not the best way to start the Daytona weekend,” said Hayden of his crash which reportedly resulted in a torn ligament and chipped bones in his wrist. “I did have to ride with some pain the rest of the weekend. Pumped we now have some time off now before Round Two at Barber (Motorsports Park, Ala., April 18-20). Should be good-to-go by then.”

Hayden soldiered on through the Supersport class and, only a few hours after his wreck, started in 5th and recorded the second-fastest lap time (1:40.590) to put his Kawasaki ZX-6R on the podium in 3rd place. Attack/Kawasaki’s Chaz Davies would place a solid 4th in the SuperSport class.

Next up for the Monster Energy-backed Davies was the Formula Xtreme Daytona 200. Davies ran well, holding in 2nd place for much of the race before dropping to 6th place on lap 16. Davies then dug deep and got back by Blake Young, Martin Cardenas and Steve Rapp, before catching Neil Hodgson on the last lap to take an apparent 2nd place podium finish.

But in the ensuing tech inspection, the AMA reported an infraction with then winner Monster Energy-backed Josh Hayes’ Erion Racing-tuned Honda CBR600RR bike and he was subsequently DQ’d and the win was given to Davies.

Said Hayes’ Erion/Honda crew chief, Rick Hobbs: “We’ve appealed their (AMA) decision and basically that’s our side of it. We’ve appealed the technical inspection and also the penalty, disqualification.”

In the weekend’s final Superbike class race, Monster Energy/Kawasaki’s Jamie Hacking had the best showing, placing 5th overall while Hayden soldiered on – despite the injured wrist – in 8th place.

Next up for the Monster Energy-backed AMA Superbike racers is Round Two of the series at Barber Motorsports Park (Ala.), April 18-20.

Monster Energy supports the sport. Be it road racing, rally, rock crawling, MX, supermoto, off-road, FMX, skate, MTB, off-road, surf, snow, BMX – name it – the athletes are rockin’ Monster Energy more than anything these days. Check out all the types – Original Monster Energy, Monster Lo-Carb, Monster Assault, Monster Khaos, the new Monster/fruit juice hybrid called “M-80” and the ground-breaking Java Monster premium coffee & cream supercharged with our Monster Energy blend. All the guys running the Monster Energy logo on the AMA Superbike Championship tour dig ‘em – so will you. On the ‘Net at www.monsterenergy.com.

Monster Energy’s Tucker Hibbert Sets Himself Up To Make A Run At The 2008 WPSA National Pro Super St

Hibbert pulls to within 11 points of Pro Super Stock class series leader Ross Martin with solid perfomance at Brainerd, Minn., WPSA round this past weekend

CORONA, Calif., (March 11, 2008) – Monster Energy’s Tucker Hibbert took a 1st and 2nd place finish in the Brainerd, Minn., round of the World PowerSports Association’s (WPSA) Snowmobile Tour this past weeknd and pulled to within 11 points of the Pro Super Stock championship overall leader, Ross Martin.

Having missed one of the earlier WPSA rounds (Round Five) and not really sure on his snowmobile season racing schedule prior to the season, Hibbert has decided to make a run at Martin this weekend in Lake Geneva, Wis., the final round of the WPSA tour.

“I was able to move from 5th to 3rd in the standings and, with six rounds of qualifying and two finals at this weekend’s WPSA double header, there’s 110 Pro Super Stock points up for grab at the Nielson Enterprises Grand Finale,” said Hibbert. “So the plan is to head to Wisconsin and make a run at the Pro Super Stock title on my Arctic Cat SnoPro 600.”

Hibbert enters Lake Geneva a bit banged up from last weekend. After scoring a 2nd place finish in the first main event of the Open class, Hibbert was in 2nd place and charging on the leader in the second Open main when he was T-boned coming out of a corner. So he’ll be dealing with some bruised ribs and a sore ankle – but really nothing new for the full time snocross/motocross racer.

And speaking of motocross, although Hibbert wasn’t able to pull a deal together this year that would allow him to race WPSA and Monster Energy Supercross, he is planning on contesting the majority of the AMA Outdoor Nationals, along with a couple select Monster Energy Canadian MX Nationals rounds.

“My old mechanic Timmy will be back prepping my bikes and we’ll be full-on privateers again,” said Hibbert. “We’re pumped. I love putting together my own program so I think things will work out really well for us this summer. Looking forward to it.”

The U.S. MX Outdoor National rounds Monster Energy’s Hibbert plans on contesting include: Freestone, RedBud, Budds Creek, Washougal, Millville, Southwick and Steel City. The Monster Energy Canadian Nationals rounds include: Morden (Manitoba) and Regina (Saskatchewan).

Next up for Monster Energy’s Hibbert is this weekend’s Lake Geneva WPSA National (March 14-15).

Monster Energy supports the sport. Be it MX, snocross, road racing, supermoto, off-road, FMX, skate, MTB, off-road, surf, snow, BMX – name it – the athletes are rockin’ Monster Energy more than anything these days. Check out all the types – Original Monster Energy, Monster Lo-Carb, Monster Assault, Monster Khaos, the new Monster/fruit juice hybrid called “M-80” and the ground-breaking Java Monster premium coffee & cream supercharged with our Monster Energy blend. Tucker Hibbert digs ‘em – so will you. On the ‘Net at www.monsterenergy.com.

Kevin Windham Surprise Winner at Daytona

Honda’s Kevin Windham passed a stalled Chad Reed on the last lap of Friday night’s Daytona Supercross By Honda to earn his first win at Daytona International Speedway.

In muddy and rainy conditions, Reed led the previous 11 laps before getting stuck in one of the final turns of the last lap. He was unable restart his Yamaha opening the door for the stunning 22.42-second victory by Windham.

The event was scheduled for 20 laps but was shortened to 12 laps after torrential rain fall flooded the course located in the Daytona International Speedway tri-oval.

“Just by the nature of the track, it is by far the most brutal Supercross that we run,” Windham said. “There is so much prestige in being part of Daytona. To win it is incredible.

“Tonight was definitely a race of different elements with the rain and what not, but it still lived up to the brutal Daytona deal. I think it was the most brutal race I have been in in my entire life.”

Windham had mixed emotions on the final lap as he thought Reed had already won the race.

“I think the scorers lost track of who was leading, because I was in the back corner and the flames above the finish line went off,” Windham said. “I was thinking Chad just won the Daytona Supercross.

“In the matter of one straightaway, it was the biggest emotional roller coaster I’ve ever been on in my entire life. I went from thinking I was hoping I could salvage second here, still have a couple turns to go, to ‘Man, I’m going to win the Daytona Supercross.’ It was an emotional roller coaster for me. It was just an incredible race.”

Fellow Honda riders Davi Millisaps and Jacob Marsack rounded out the podium with second and third-place finishes respectively.

Reed, a two-time Daytona Supercross By Honda winner, settled for sixth.

In the 10-lap Supercross Lites race, Trey Canard continued his hot streak with his third straight victory.

“Coming into that race, I wasn’t really sure what to expect,” Canard said. “I just wanted to go out there and do the best that I could. I did everything I could possible do during the week, and I think I was prepared as I could possibly be, so I could give it everything I had, every lap out there.”

James Stewart, who won last year’s Daytona Supercross By Honda, is sitting out this year’s Supercross season with a knee injury and didn’t compete in Friday’s race.

This year’s Daytona Supercross By Honda was held on a course designed by five-time Daytona Supercross By Honda winner and now retired Ricky Carmichael and constructed by Mark Barnett, former Supercross Champion and three-time National Champion.

Monster Energy’s Ryan Capes Steps ‘Er Up @ The Toe’s MX Park Huckfest – Airs It Out At Or Beyond The 300-Foot Mark Four Times

Monster Energy’s Ryan Capes Steps ‘Er Up @ The Toe’s MX Park Huckfest – Airs It Out At Or Beyond The 300-Foot Mark Four Times

“Seth and Trigger tapped out and I pushed the ramp back to 240 (ft.), pinned it and hit around 300 feet four times. They were trippin’!” said Capes.

CORONA, Calif., (March 4, 2008) – In his final public tune-up for his upcoming Crusty Demon’s “Night of World Records,” Monster Energy’s Ryan Capes stepped ‘er up against two of the top distance jumpers in the world and sent a message to the close-knit long distance motorcycle jumping community that he’s going to crush Robbie Maddison’s 322-foot world record on March 29^th in Melbourne, Australia.

After Seth Enslow and Trigger Gumm had both pulled off personal best distance jumps of 268 feet and 281 feet, respectively, at Washington’s Toe’s MX Park’s annual “Huckfest,” Capes pushed the Monster Energy take-off ramp back to create a eyebrow-raising 240-foot gap, then proceeded to pound out back-to-back-to-back-to-back jumps right at or beyond the 300-foot mark.

“Seth and Trigger tapped out and I pushed the ramp back to 240 feet, pinned it and hit around 300 feet four times,” said Capes. “They (Enslow and Gumm) were trippin’!”

From the dirt in-run at Toe’s both Enslow and Gumm hit personal-best jumps, as each of their previous bests were achieved off pavement in-runs. “We all pushed each other and worked as a team, so it was pretty cool,” said Capes.

The three will re-join in Australia for the Crusty show where Capes says Maddison’s record will for sure fall. In fact, it already has – unofficially – when Capes uncorked a 323-plus footer in practice at Toe’s two weeks ago.

"My dad and I measured it out and we jumped 323-6,” said Capes of a jump that would have been a new world record, eclipsing that of (Rob) Maddison’s recent 322-7 leap. “But Seth (Enslow) measured it at 322-6, so we went with that.”

Maddison’s distance record, if not ‘officially’ topped before then, will no doubt fall at the hand of Capes @ Crusty Demon’s “Night of World Records” in Melbourne, Australia (March 29^th). For more information on that gig link to www.crusty.com

Monster Energy supports the sport. Be it distance jumping, enduro, hare scrambles, MX, road racing, supermoto, FMX, skate, MTB, off-road, surf, snow, BMX – name it – the athletes are rockin’ Monster Energy more than anything these days. Check out all the types – Original Monster Energy, Monster Lo-Carb, Monster Assault, Monster Khaos, the new Monster/fruit juice hybrid called “M-80” and the ground-breaking Java Monster premium coffee & cream supercharged with our Monster Energy blend. Ryan Capes digs ‘em – so will you. On the ‘Net at www.monsterenergy.com.

Monster Parties in Austin, TX during SXSW!!

HEADING TO AUSTIN FOR SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST?

Check out these MONSTER ENERGY Day Parties!!

They’re FREE, ALL AGES, and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!!

Friday, March 14, 2008

Cedar Door - 12 noon to 6 pm

201 Brazos St.

- Austin , TX 78701

Monster Energy, Side One Dummy & Swing House Present:

Mock Tigers- 12noon-12:20

Gaslight Anthem-12:30-1:00

Dusty Rhodes-1:15-1:45

Eddie Spaghetti-1:55-2:25

Charlie Overbey- 2:35-2:55

Chuck Regan-3:05-3:35

Astra Heights-3:45-4:05

Delux - 4:15-4:45

Authority Zero- 5pm-5:30

Saturday, March 15, 2008

RED 7 – 12 noon to 6 pm

611 E. 7th Street

- Austin , TX 78701

Monster Energy& Swing House Present:

Outdoor Stage

Subversa-12noon-12:20

Phantoms-12:35-12:55

Koopa-1:10-1:30

On A Pale Horse-1:45-2:05

Black Tide-2:20-2:50pm

At All Cost-3:05-3:35

In This Moment -3:50pm-4:20

Jasta (the voice of Hatebreed, Icepick, and Kingdom of Sorrow ) -4:35-5:15

MC for the show is Hyro da Hero.

Indoor Stage

the Buck Brothers- 12:30-12:50

Drive A- 1:05- 1:25

Astra Heights- 1:40-2:20

Von Iva – 2:35-2:55

Moving Picture Show- 3:10-3:40

Chaingang of 1974- 355-415

Monte Negro- 4:30-4:50

The Dear & Deprted- 5:05-5:35

Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto Speaks Out On The Atlanta Crash

Villopoto wants to put everything behind him and get to the task at hand; winning the Eastern Region Monster Energy Supercross Lites title

CORONA, Calif., (March 4, 2008) – Before we get into it with Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto on last Saturday’s incident in Atlanta, Monster Energy would like to point out that in its efforts on deadline to jump to the defense of its star athlete – video documentation and public opinion of the get together with Josh Grant notwithstanding – observations from a number of key players involved were overlooked - including Ryan’s. So after looking at that video like 30 times and in our rush to, as they say, ‘Have our guy’s back,’ we may have been too quick to judge intent on Grant’s behalf.
And for that we apologize.

Monster Energy stands by its athletes with great pride and passion.
Guys like defending Monster Energy Supercross Eastern Lites class champion Ryan Villopoto are paramount to Monster Energy’s success. And while all parties involved with last week’s incident have learned some valuable lessons, Monster Energy will continue to stand up for and defend our athletes with great fervor and loyalty.

Bottom line: The M-claw logo those athletes run represents a lot more than sponsorship money. It represents family.

That said, here’s Ryan Villopoto take on the Lites class main event last Saturday in Atlanta.

Monster Energy: Ryan, these are uncharted waters for you. Twenty five points back of the WSX title in an abbreviated seven-race season. Is this a gap you feel you can make up?

Ryan Villopoto: “Yeah, I mean it’s going to be a hard gap to make up.
But on the other hand Ben (Townley) did it last year with a DNF at Atlanta and Jason’s (Lawrence) done it this year – so anything can happen. It’s going to be good racing and I just have to try and get as many wins as I can.”

Monster Energy: You just had some wrist surgery. How’s that going and has it in any way affected your performance on the Pro Circuit-tuned KX250F?

Ryan Villopoto: “I’ve been dealing with a wrist injury since October, so it’s an old injury. I finally got it sort of under control and am getting back out there to do what I can do. But no, I definitely wasn’t 100-percent coming into Atlanta. But it’s better than nothing.”

Monster Energy: This WSX field is hyper-fast. There’s a bunch of new names, including Atlanta race winner Trey Canard, multi-time Loretta’s champ Nico Izzi and Tyler Bowers. Will making up the difference with this field be any different than if you, say, had to do the same in 2006?

Ryan Villopoto: “No, I don’t think so. Trey’s obvioulsy pretty good, he won it. Nico’s pretty descent. Tyler Bowers will be kind of whatever, not really sure. There are about four other guys that are OK, but I think it’s going to be me and Josh (Grant) and Trey.”

Monster Energy: What was your take on the wreck involving Josh Grant?

Ryan Villopoto: “It’s hard to say. It was like we were racing an enduro race with two walls and some sand right there. They should have just put some logs and tires out there (laughter). But, you know it was kind of a hard section. You had a set of whoops and a dog leg with sand – then a wall. So it was like, ‘whatever,’ it wasn’t like he could check up and hold his line because every one of us was going in the same line. I hit the backside of Bowers and that’s why I crashed.
That’s pretty much how it went down. I was glad I didn’t get hurt, so that was good.”

Monster Energy: Josh said in an interview that “I had my head down and was focused on the rut, and then I went to go gas it up the spine and I just see Ryan there… There was nothing I could do.” That said, had you been in the same position would you think the same result would have occurred?

Ryan Villopoto: “(Pause) Um, I definitely would have hit him, yeah. I don’t know if it’d have been as hard or what else. His his bike or whatever. Maybe checked up? I dunno. I mean, it’s not that big of a deal.”

Monster Energy: Do you have it in yourself to forgive Josh Grant?

Ryan Villopoto: “Yeah, I talked to him on Monday. And yeah, it’s over and it’s not a big deal.”

Monster Energy: Thanks, Ryan. And good luck this weekend.

Ryan Villopoto: “Thanks.”

Next up for Villopoto and the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki team is the second round of the ESX Lites series at Indianapolis’ RCA Dome this Saturday (March 1).

Monster Energy supports the sport. Be it MX, road racing, supermoto, off-road, FMX, skate, MTB, off-road, surf, snow, BMX – name it – the athletes are rockin’ Monster Energy more than anything these days.
Check out all the types – Original Monster Energy, Monster Lo-Carb, Monster Assault, Monster Khaos, the new Monster/fruit juice hybrid called “M-80” and the ground-breaking Java Monster premium coffee & cream supercharged with our Monster Energy blend. Villopoto digs ‘em – so will you. On the ‘Net at www.monsterenergy.com.

Monster Energy Athletes DOMINATE Vans Tahoe (Calif.) Cup Halfpipe Event

Monster’s Danny Kass and Elena Hight repeat as Vans Tahoe Cup champs; Louie Vito’s an impressive 2nd and Andy Finch’s only a couple clicks back in 4th

CORONA, Calif., (March 3, 2008) – The Monster Energy Army took charge of the halfpipe at this past weekend’s Vans Tahoe Cup event with Danny Kass and Elena Hight sweeping 1st place in both the men’s and women’s competitions.

"It’s always nice when your athletes step up and dominate a contest that a rival energy drink company sponsors," said John Lee, Director of Sports Marketing for Monster Energy. "Monster’s halfpipe competitors blitzed the finals and put Monster 1-1 across the top of the men’s and women’s standings. The highlight reels are all Monster from the Vans Cup in Tahoe this past weekend and we couldn’t be more pumped."

Probably have to start in 4th place with Monster Energy’s Andy Finch. The Truckee (Calif.) native went bananas at his hometown resort, boosting the comp’s highest airs and narrowly missing (hand drag) a bionic 1080 that would have easily put him on the podium.

"What can I say…I went for it, big," said Finch. "I’m bummed I didn’t make it an all-Monster podium, but I for sure gave it everything I had. It was nice to see Danny And Louie go 1-2 in the pipe."

In repeating as champ, Kass took a break from filming his new Grenade film "Boned Age" to compete at this popular stop on the Vans tour. Busting large with Kass-A-Rolls and the biggest air-to-fakie anyone’s seen in a while, Kass again impressed the judges enough for 1st place.

Had Kass sketched a bit, Monster Energy’s Louie Vito was right there for the gold. Vito’s linking of back-to-back 1080s and 900s threw caution to the wind and stood up and yelled at everybody the so-90s adage: "Spin to win!" Vito’s been on top of the snowboard world as of late and it showed at Tahoe. His 2nd was well-deserved.

When the women dropped into the Tahoe pipe there was no question as to who was boss. Hight threw down with the only 900 of the day – sending her hometown fans into a frenzy. So pumped up was Kass’ sidekick, The Dingo, he blared out "If you didn’t win I will run naked down the pipe."

"Good thing for everybody I won," said Hight with a laugh.

Other Monster Energy-backed athletes in attendance were: Leanne Pelosi, Sketchy D and Pacific Northwest snowboarder/skater legend-in-the-making, Ben Watts.