SAVANNAH, Ga. () — A big event, featuring some of the biggest trucks, will return to the Hostess City this Friday for a weekend-long motorsport competition.

Savannahians may be used to watching concerts, hockey or even volleyball at Enmarket Arena, but driver Weston Anderson said fans can expect an all-around event at Monster Jam featuring the sport’s best competition.

“We are going to have eight of the top drivers in the country coming,” Anderson said.

Anderson, of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, has competed in Monster Jam since 2022, driving the Grave Digger, a monster truck created by his father Dennis Anderson.

“It’s almost breathtaking to even think that something crazy like this and this crazy job that I have could be alive for as long as it has been,” Weston said.

Due to his lineage, monster trucks quickly began to play a large role in his life, and he was destined to become a driver himself, Weston told .

“We ate, slept and everything monster trucks,” Weston said. “Whenever I was growing up, we would have Grave Digger coming through the shop every week along with all of the other trucks. It was right next to my bedroom, so I had no choice but to be around it.”

Even though he said he wouldn’t go skydiving and is afraid of the heights, the adrenaline rush is Weston’s favorite part of being a driver.

“Once you get strapped into this 12,000-pound truck and you’re jumping it 40 feet through the air, you’re crashing it, you’re back-flipping it, you’re doing crazy tricks that people never would have thought you were able to do in a monster truck… it sends chills down your spine and it’s an experience like no other.”

The Enmarket Arena won’t look the same when you arrive for the event since it undergoes a serious transformation to create the dirt track.

Anderson said fans may not know it, but Monster Jam owns dirt in each of its host cities. Around 100 dump trucks of dirt will be loaded into excavators and brought into the arena to create the track.

The weekend will include three main competitions. First, a head-to-head style racing bracket, followed by a two-wheel skills category and finishing with a Monster Jam Freestyle competition.

There is also an overall event winner that is determined by the tally of points awarded across the competitions.

Fans in the arena will have their own say for who the winner should be, Weston said, as they make up 35% of the vote.

The first event is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. with the weekend wrapping up with its last event on Sunday, Aug. 31 at 6:30 p.m.