David Smith

 Birthdate: March 12, 1969

Residence: Spring, Texas

Hometown: Houston, Texas

Marital Status:Married

Children: 2 daughters

Favorite food: Steak and Seafood

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite music: Rock

Hobbies: Restoring cars

Sentence that describes him: David is always working to improve.

   David got his start in monster trucks in 1996 by helping to build King Krunch 14 in the evenings after work.  He travelled with the team from 1997 to 1999.  In 1999 he made the decision to go to work full time as the crew chief for the race team.  He worked hard to learn all he could about the truck and the sport of monster truck racing and helped take King Krunch to the 2000 World Finals in Vegas.  David became the full time driver of King Krunch in the Fall of 2000.  His first official show as the new driver was at the 2000 Wings Over Houston Air Show.

   The 2001 racing season was his first full season.  He worked to find his own driving style which also helped find the weak points in the truck.  The team worked hard to improve the strength and reliability of King Krunch 14.

   In May of 2002, David and owner, Nels Wickander, decided to expand the team to a two truck race team. King Krunch 15 made it's debut at the 2002 Wings Over Houston Air Show.

   The 2003 racing season has been David's best and busiest yet.  They easily doubled the number of appearances from those done the year before and in March, David was named Clear Channel Motorsports' Most Improved Driver.

   David is constantly fine tuning and looking for ways to improve KK15 so look for even bigger things to happen in the coming years.