MENIFEE, CA – On January 22nd Obsession Racing was in San Diego California at the Qualcom Stadium for another Monster Jam event. Rick drove Eric’s truck Obsessed and Jeff Jones drove Obsession. The show started off with a huge three and a half hour pit party. We enjoyed soaking up the California sunshine while meeting and greeting old and new fans, family and friends. Saturday night in racing Jeff Jones in Obsession made his first Monster Jam win racing Monster Mutt! This was an added bonus for Jeff as several of his AmeriGas employees got to witness his skills in racing! Rick was knocked out of racing by Chris in Brutus of Team Scream racing (but we still welcomed him back to our shop aka The Obsession Compound). For freestyle Jeff did an awesome job of catching some big air and spun some fast donuts! Rick was placed towards the upper half in the freestyle line up! He did an excellent job in Obsessed and during his donut finale as he threw the steering wheel out of the window (his trademark) he even managed to run in over and turn it into a taco! The fan’s loved his show as they bombarded him when he came up into the crowd!
The following week was busy here at the Obsession Compound. Team Scream came back to fix their trucks and then head to their show in Arizona. Obsession Racing had to switch bodies on both trucks. Obsessed received the Backwards Bob body and Obsessed became Obsessed. We needed to protect the Obsession body because we used for a Nationwide Prime Time Television show. We didn’t want to chance damaging the Obsession body because we were shooting for the show on Monday and Tuesday. We will release the pictures from the show as soon as the show airs.
On Saturday January 29th we had another Monster Jam Event that was held in Anaheim California. During the pit party the Backwards Bob body drew a lot of attention. It was amazing also to see how many people new that Rick also was the owner of Obsession. Because we had to put the Obsessed body on Obsession, this would be the first time anyone other than Rick or Eric would drive with the Obsessed body. Eric didn’t mind Jeff running his Obsessed body because he has always looked up to Jeff ever since he’s known him. After the successful pit party it was time for racing. Rick and Jeff had some quick times but it was a field of very competitive trucks. For freestyle Jeff brought the crowd to their feet piloting Obsessed! Rick really enjoyed driving backwards (Bob)! The fans always get a big kick out of seeing the Backwards Bob truck run. People always ask how you can jump the truck so high backwards? Everyone enjoyed the show including the drivers.
Now that the Wendy’s commercial is out, we have a link on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iILPwTSH8P8 that shows you some behind the scenes from the commercial. It was a really cool experience being able to drive the monster truck through Universal Studio’s. No one was sleeping on the trams that day!
