MENIFEE, CA – The New Year has been extremely busy for Obsession Racing. It started off in Anaheim, CA for a display at Supercross to a sold out crowd. Our display was unique with both Rick Husemans class 4 race truck and the Fabtech Obsession Monster truck painted alike with the same paint scheme. It caught a lot of people’s attention and stood out above the crowd.
The following weekend The Fabtech Obsession truck had its first Monster Jam race at the Anaheim Stadium. It also was a first time race for our son Eric. He was given a wonderful opportunity to race the Fabtech trophy kart that is an exact replica of Dad’s truck. This made Eric ecstatic and he had a wonderful time racing. A big thank you goes out to Ryan Winner and his Dad Dave for giving Eric this great experience.
Rick’s mind was set to prove why he was the 2006 MOD Champion with a blistering qualifying pass of nearly 2 seconds faster than the fastest truck there. The downfall was that he got a 10 second penalty from hitting the turning post. The penalty put him up against Maximum Destruction with the fastest time for the first round of racing. Maximum Destruction continued on and won the finals. In freestyle the Fabtech Obsession was the fourth truck out and set the bar for the rest of the trucks to top.
We continued on to San Diego the next weekend for the next Monster Jam show. The Fabtech Obsession had a field of highly competitive trucks to compete against. The Fabtech Obsession placed third fastest in qualifying time. This put him on a winning streak winning all the way through to the semi finals. In the finals we faced off against Bounty Hunter. Bounty Hunter had lane choice which put us into the right lane which we had not ran in all night. The Fabtech Obsession slid out into the slick corner handing the win to Bounty hunter. Doing so well in freestyle at Anaheim, Monster Jam put the Fabtech Obsession in the second half of the freestyle order. We went out to make our mark launching the truck on the first hit and coming down on our left side. With this kind of impact landing the truck blew both left tires. Rick still continued on and went for the bus stack and cleared it with two bad tires. Landing from this jump with bad tires, it took out the steering hose and completed the run.
This weekend will be in Anaheim again for round three for the Monster Jam series.
