MENIFEE, CA –After the Las Vegas show Daron Basl with Flame motorsports headed home with us. We wanted to make our shop available for him so that he could repair their trucks and get them ready for the next show that we all had booked for Fresno California. We enjoyed having him here and have adopted him so that Eric can have an older brother to share his chores with. He stayed with us over the Easter Holiday. Knowing how hard it must be to be away from family and his girlfriend for so long, we hoped to make him feel at home while he was with us.
On Thursday, April 15th Gary Schott Jr. met Daron at our house as he became a new member of the Flame Motorsports crew. Daron and Gary followed Rick and I to Fresno and we actually met up with Aaron Basl (Daron’s twin) hauling Grave Digger and the Turtle truck on the road. It was really hard to tell over the CB which twin was talking, but after spending a lot of time with Daron we finally can tell the difference between the two!
Fresno had three shows, Friday and Saturday night and an afternoon show on Sunday. We decided to run the Obsession truck because we knew that Sunday afternoon would be a great opportunity to get photos of the Obsession with its new wrap design. Friday night Rick did an awesome job in Obsession. The old truck took him all the way up to the finals. Saturday night we had some difficulties with the transmission but Rick worked on it Saturday night and changed the transmission and got it at 110% for Sunday. Sunday afternoon the old Obsession once again took him to the finals. He had an awesome freestyle but when the low scores came from the judges it was great to hear the fans screaming out their Boo’s showing them that Rick deserved a much better score!
We are look forward to our next Monster Jam event in Salinas California to put on a great show in Obsessed for all of our Californians.
