MENIFEE, CA – The last four weeks have been jammed packed for Obsession Racing. It started off with Rick and I flying back to North Carolina for me to experience some driving time behind the wheel of a Monster Truck. Rick and I spent three days with Feld Entertainment’s North Carolina shop. The truck they had for me to test drive was Chuckie’s (Charlie Pauken’s) Grave Digger. This was an experience of a life time for me. Rick also enjoyed the time at their shop to learn different strategies and techniques on the Monster Trucks. We would like to give a huge thanks to all of the Feld Entertainments employees for all their hospitality and generosity.
The day we flew home from North Carolina we jumped from Airplane to hauler to our next event in Rancho Santa Margareta California for a Habitat for Humanity fund raiser to support our troops display. The day started out with ten guys that came over to Rick and Eric and wanted to know if they could help tire up? Just so they could say when they got to Iraq that they got to have the experience putting on big tires on a Monster truck. It was great to see all of the people in attendance there to support our soldiers. We need to keep them in our thoughts in prayers until they all come home. We would like to thank Monika at Cruzin for Wishes for all she does in coordinating this event.
On November first we were in Houston Texas at the Motor Sports Park for the first annual Ronald McDonalds House charity Monster Truck shoot out event. This event turned out to be a huge success. It even broke the track record for attendance. The success of this event has already started the negotiations to make it an annual event. The track was one of the most unique and longest that Rick has ever raced. Rick set fastest qualifying time and proceeded to win his way to the finals. During the final round Rick had some transmission problems and had to settle for second place against Daren Basl in the Fiesta King Krunch. We would like to thank David Smith for being the event coordinator and putting on such a successful event. We are looking forward to this event again next year. A big thanks goes out to John from EZ-Router for providing pictures of the event and to Jeff Jones for all of the help with driving and truck maintenance for the event.
