MENIFEE, CA – On September 4th, 5th and 6th we were at the Sublimity Harvest Festival in Sublimity Oregon. This show is a fund raiser to help support the kids in the Southern Portland area. The show has 3 nights of freestyle and the trucks that are there are sponsored by local businesses. We were sponsored by AWI Diesel repair. The companies that sponsored the trucks to perform get to have the trucks on display at their facilities. This is where we got the pleasure to meet the owners of AWI Diesel, JR and Diane. There company is beautiful and it has everything any employee would dream of. AWI Diesel is a great place to have your work done and you would be taken care of by the most pleasurable people you could imagine. The truck ran hard all weekend and was a for sure crowd pleaser. We would like to thank Gary Basil for his help and the races and opening up his home to us and getting us to and from the airport. We would also like to thank Frank & Teresa with Chavez Trucking for the help on the truck and the great Harley tour.
Monday on our way home from Sublimity Oregon we booked a show for the L.A. Fair. This was a one night show held on that Thursday night. This was a freestyle show with a total of seven trucks competing. Rick put on a great show and the truck handled well. This show is usually set up mostly for wheelie competitions, so Rick was happy to see that they had also included some big air jump for him to shine.
The night of the Pomona races we came home for a few hours sleep and Rick and Jeff our Pitman/Sponsor had to be at the California Mexico boarder at 8:00 am to meet with the promoter to get their paperwork to cross into Mexico. After waiting on the boarder for eight hours they got through. Friday night they did a parade through the of Tijuana town with the Monster trucks on low boys. Saturday Rick and Jeff spent all day getting the truck ready to race for Saturday night. They were having issues with the magneto. Rick went out in qualifying and lay down with the fastest time. Racing Rick had to take each round one at a time and adjust the magneto and still made it to the finals. The final round was Rick and Jimmy Createn in Bounty Hunter. Ricks motor didn’t have one last pass in it and gave the win to Bounty Hunter.
This last weekend we had an event at the Southern California Fair in Perris California for WGAS motorsports. On Sunday AmeriGas held a great BBQ for all of the employees and drivers and families. I think they were proud as Rick took the win in Racing and took second is freestyle Sunday night. It was a great night for Obsession in it home town.
