KRYSTEN ANDERSON Pilots Grave Digger Into Gwinnett This Weekend

September 11, 2026

• KRYSTEN ANDERSON took over Grave Digger in 2017 after father Dennis Anderson’s injury-forced retirement, becoming the first full-time female driver of motorsports’ most iconic monster truck during the franchise’s 35th anniversary year.
• She captured the 2022 Arena Series Central championship after 18 consecutive weeks of competition, becoming Monster Jam’s first female points series champion in history while competing exclusively against male drivers throughout the season.
• ANDERSON holds the Guinness World Record for highest monster truck ramp jump at 33 feet 9.6 inches, set in 2020. She originally studied studio art intending to design paint schemes before auditioning to drive instead.
• Her Grave Digger truck traces lineage to a 1951 Ford pickup her father built in 1982 using salvaged parts and tractor tires, now part of a multi-truck franchise generating 1,500 horsepower from methanol-fueled supercharged V8 engines.

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