AAn enthusiastic Brandon Lagrade was eagerly looking to get into the sport of monster truck racing, when he purchased the Wild Child monster truck from Scott Brown in November of 2003. Brandon had been involved with motor sports his entire life along with running Chiller Specialties, an industrial cooling and heating company. After playing with 4x4 and dragsters, it was a natural step for Lagrade to become involved with the monster truck industries.


After purchasing the Wild Child monster truck, which was originally the Bad Influence of Donny Smith. Wild Child underwent some changes to make it more competitive on the monster truck circuit. Wild Child made only a few public appearances and made its racing debut on April 22, 2004 in Ocala, Florida, where the team hauled it on a open trailer pulled by Brandon's dually.


At the Ocala show, Brandon met the owner of the Sudden Impact monster truck and learned that the Sudden Impact operation was currently for sale.

 
The Sudden Impact Race team began its days in a single one stall garage in Frackville, Pennsylvania. The Sudden Impact competed and slowly worked its way up the ladder while building a strong fan base. In the end of 2003, the entire operation was purchased from its original owner. The equipment was then relocated to Jefferson, Louisiana for a complete overhaul.
 
The decision was made to campaign 2 Sudden Impact monster trucks, The 2nd Sudden Impact truck made its first public debut at a K-Mart display in June of 2004 after an extensive equipment overhaul and cosmetic transformation from the Wild Child to Sudden Impact. Paint By KAL of Kenner, Louisiana did an outstanding job painting the 2nd Sudden Impact truck to match the original monster truck.


In late 2004, Brandon purchased the Pure Adrenalin monster truck of Randy Brown, this truck was to become the Traxxas T-Maxx, which would compete on the national Monster Jam TV series from Florida to Minnesota. In 2005 T-Maxx made it's debut in front of a sold-out crowd on the USHRA Monster Jam circuit.

In 2004 at a show in Brooksville, Florida, Brandon met Tim Bush, the former owner and team mate to Charlie Pauken and the Excaliber monster truck. One thing led to another, and Tim Bush is now the Head Of Operations, from booking the trucks to building them, Tim Bush is the key factor of Sudden Impact behind the scenes... for now as Tim is ready to take to the track.

The agreement was made to bring the fan favorite, Excaliber monster truck back into action! In 2006, Tim Bush's Excaliber, driven by Sean Duhon made its debut in January. Reactions spread like wildfire over the internet and within the monster truck community. The Excaliber body was on the original Sudden Impact chassis and toured booked solid for an entire year with the Sudden Impact truck.

To this day, Sudden Impact owns and operates Excaliber, Chiller, T-Maxx 2 and T-Maxx, alongside the 2 Sudden Impact monster trucks, with new trucks being built and many ideas being tossed around, with the option to grow even bigger. Based out of Jefferson, Louisiana, Sudden Impact Racing's monster trucks perform in over 250 events per year for Live Nation Motorsports, Image Promotions, The Extreme Monster Truck Nationals, and Checkered Flag Productions.

To this day, Sudden Impact owns and operates over 5 different monster trucks with new projects in the works

SIR #001 - Original Wild Child/Now Sudden Impact 1
SIR #002 - Original Sudden Impact/Now Excaliber
SIR #003 - Original Nitro Fish/Now Sudden Impact 2
SIR #004 - Original Pure Adrenalin/Now T-MAXX
SIR #005 - T-MAXX 2
SIR #006 - ???

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