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MENIFEE, CA – The fist week of November was a busy week for Obsession Racing. We attended the SEMA show in Las Vegas on Tuesday and Wednesday and then headed down to Phoenix Arizona on Thursday morning as we had an event with the monster trucks starting on Thursday night with WGAS Motor Sports.

The success of the SEMA show has always been beneficial to us each year. Rick was able see our current sponsors and also meet with a couple of new ones. We are looking forward to our continuing support of our current sponsors, and the support of our new sponsors. We are truly thankful for all of our sponsors, because in this sport you can not do it solely.

The Phoenix Arizona Show was four shows that started on Thursday through Sunday with one show a day. Thursday night was a quick exhibition run where each truck performed for two minutes. The next three nights they added more jumps and obstacles. For these nights they had judging. Friday night Rick tied for first place and Eric took second place. On Saturday night Eric took second place and Rick took third. Sunday night’s event Rick took second place and Eric took third. Obsession Racing had an extremely good weekend. Both trucks ran strong. The crowd was pleased with their runs and it showed as we were able to converse with the fans as they let them into the pits after the show for autographs. One lady even told Eric that she is now an Obsessed fan and she is switching from a Grave Digger fan to an Obsessed fan! He is really growing a strong fan base and it makes us very proud of how successful he is becoming!

AmeriGas has a large plant that is in the Phoenix area and we were so very fortunate to have the help of Frank and some of his employees and family that helped us out immensely!! We also want to thank the Allen family (Jim, Carol and Christopher) for the excellent dinner Carol prepared and brought to us and their dedication as great fans and friends to our Obsession Racing family business!

We will be on display this weekend at Gold’s Gym for the AmeriGas’s Temecula store. After this display, it will be tear down time for the Obsession and Obsessed trucks to get ready and fired up for the upcoming 2012 season! For more up to the minute updates go to Facebook under Obsession Racing.

MENIFEE, CA – These last two weekends were promoted by WGAS motorsports. The audience got to see our Father and Son Team race and freestyle. The first weekend’s event was held in Turlock California. We had one show per day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Rick did very well in racing for all three days. Eric was also at the top of his game in Obsessed making it to the semi finals in racing. Racing was a Chicago Style course where you start on a set of cars, make a left turn and over another set of cars another left turn and the finish line is at the original set of cars. This takes more driving abilities and skills than a straight line race. Rick and Eric put on another great freestyle. The fans are so impressed with Eric’s driving abilities and skills for the amount of time he has been driving.

Our latest show was held next to our home town in Perris California at the Southern California State Fair. This was four shows in three days. This was a freestyle only show. This was the first year ever that Perris had double stacked car jumps and even a boat to jump on Sunday! This was a field of 10 very competitive well known trucks. Both trucks scored in the top half in all four shows and Eric placed second for two of the shows against Jimmy Creten in Bounty Hunter and one of the shows he was only a point off from Jimmy! In between the shows at Perris Eric filmed for a new show call Stunt Busters on Speed T.V. Eric showed the host how he pilots the truck and then the host wanted to give it a whirl! She did really well for her first time driving the truck and she also jumped some cars. She wasn’t afraid about the impact of landings as she is a professional stunt car driver and crushes and crashes things for a living which makes her a great host for the show. We hoping it will be airing around the end of the year! So please check out our new rising star!!

Next week we will be heading to SEMA and we look forward to seeing our sponsors there!

MENIFEE, CA – Last weekend we were in Sublimity Oregon for the Harvest Festival. This show is a non profit show to raise money for the children in need in the area. This is not just your average show. It is a complete community outreach. The trucks are sponsored by local businesses to come and perform. The trade out is all show sponsors that participate and they get a private BBQ and a pre-show on Thursday night. The gates are open to the public on Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon. With Jeff’s high position at AmeriGas and high and high volume of work, he has not been able to drive and some of our shows this year. On the norm, Jimmy Lehnertz has stepped in for Jeff Jones and driven for our team. But we had a special surprise in having Aaron Basl, Monster Jam driver of the Turtle truck fill in for us. We thought it would be nice for him to be able to compete with his twin brother Daron in their home town. They have a lot of family that comes to this show and their Father currently lives there. We also feel as though they are family to us. We have had both Aaron and Daron stay at our home and they are such a pleasure to have around! Aaron did an excellent job piloting both trucks! He even did an awesome safe in Obsession on Saturday night!! All the shows were freestyle only and Rick and Aaron did the town proud! We had some good times over at Gary Basl’s house (Aaron & Daron’s Dad) after the shows and enjoy really good food and company!

On September 30th and October 1st and 2nd we were in Red Bluff California. We had Jimmy Lehnertz back in the seat of Obsession. This show is for the West Coast Fall Nationals. This was three shows with both racing and freestyle. Both of the trucks did very well in Racing. I was very proud to see Rick take the win to Tom Meents in Maximum Destruction. This is a huge honor as Tom is one of the best racers that you could compete against and very rarely looses. They were also on their game for freestyle hitting all of the big obstacles and pleasing the crowd with the show they put on.

We want to make sure we thank Aaron and the Basl family for all that they have done and do for us in making feel welcome and like family. Also we are so fortunate to have Jimmy Lehnertz drive for us and his wonderful wife and son to help us with what whatever we need!

Our next event will be in Turlock, California with Eric driving his Obsessed truck.