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MENIFEE, CA – Our Mothers Day weekend started out on Thursday the 5th of May doing displays for Les Schwab and Driven in door go kart track to promote the WGAS Motorsports Santa Rosa California event. Both Monster Trucks were on display at Les Schwab from 9:00am to 5:00pm and then Obsession was wide loaded over to the Driven in door kart track to be on display from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. All of the drivers got to spend two hours racing their go karts with the fans. The fans got a chance to win free tickets for the Monster Truck show held on Saturday and Sunday. The show was a freestyle show that consisted of five trucks. Unfortunately Eric was unable to drive his truck at this event because it interfered with school and testing. Jeff Jones who normally drives for us also had prior commitments and couldn’t drive. We were fortunate enough to have Jimmy Lehnertz pilot Obsession for us and once again he did an awesome job! Rick drove Obsessed and the show was very successful and was sold out both nights! We want to give special thanks Tom Lehnertz and Tom Tom for all of their help throughout the weekend!!

The following weekend was held in Salinas California for Monster Jam. This event was booked in for only one truck. Rick was planning on taking Obsession but ended up taking Obsessed. All trucks for this event go on display in front of the complex on the Thursday before the show on Sunday. In all of the years that Rick has been there, it has never rained. The year he missed in 2006 it down poured! With the threat of rain and the forecast calling for rain Rick was hoping to keep his luck alive! There was a down pour on Saturday night and a few sprinkles on Sunday morning and by 1:00pm they had nothing but sunshine and blue skies! He’s hoping it was his presents that made it happen! The show turned out to be a success and Rick made it to the semi finals in racing. Unfortunately his freestyle was cut short about have way through when he went off the huge jump and broke the right rear hub off of the truck! But the crowd always likes destruction so they were cheering big time! The track officials towed the truck to the corner of the arena so the show could continue without delays. After the show a lot of the audience stood around because they saw Rick get back into the truck with no wheel and drive it off of the floor. We want to give a big thanks to Ryan, Steve, and Mark and the Pendleton family for all of their help since Rick was solo at this event.

On May 21st Obsessed did a display for a Jiffy Lube grand opening in Wildomar, California. This display was set up through TX7 that is a sponsor of ours and a main supplier of product to Jiffy Lube. The Monster Truck was a huge success for their grand opening! The kids really enjoyed being able to get up close and sit up in a real racing Monster Truck! Eric, Jeff and Rick were all there to sign autographs. Eric had to leave a little early because he was racing his dirt bike later on that day. It ended up being a great day! The Grand Opening was a big success and Eric also took first place in his motor cross race!

Our next event will be for WHR Motorsports in Missoula, Montana on June 10th and 11th. Eric will be driving for this event since school will be out for the summer.

MENIFEE, CA – The month of March was a busy for Obsession Racing. It was consumed by maintaining the Monster Trucks and preparing them for show quality for our Las Vegas display and upcoming events. Both trucks had body work done and were re-wrapped to make them look new again. The hard work and maintenance paid off as they put us on display in entrance for all eyes to see. Eric had a big turn out of people interested in seeing the Worlds Youngest Monster truck driver and they were excited to get his autograph. It was amazing that such a vast majority of people had already heard and seen Eric through, internet, youtube and etc. We were very proud of the group of fans that he has already acquired! As always, it was great to see our fans, friends and family. It was also nice to be able to spend a little more time with them during the full day of the autograph session.

Our next event after Vegas was held in Irwindale California on April 2nd. Eric was excited and honored that he would be able to drive in this event. This was Eric’s first event of this year. He did an awesome job as he was put up against Jimmy Createn in Bounty hunter in his first round of racing. Rick didn’t get a chance to be up against his son, but he did do a good job in racing also. Since they didn’t get a chance to race each other, the competition was in freestyle. Eric managed to bump out Dad by a couple points. Eric had a good time in freestyle. He didn’t want to quit! He did some great donuts and caught some huge air! It was a good night for all! We also want to give a special thanks to Michael Gritzkie, Tom Read, and Jeff Jones for helping crew for Obsession Racing. David Smith and Daron Basl from Flame Motorsports was also a big help and they towed our trailer to and from the show for us. Daron Basl stayed with us in between shows and as a big help to us and was always willing to lend a hand when we needed it!

After Irwindale California we headed to Fresno California on April 15th, 16th and 17th for a Monster Jam Event. Due to prior commitments Jeff Jones was unable to drive Obsession. Rick had asked Jimmy Lehnertz to drive Obsession in place of Jeff for this weekend. Jimmy said he would drive and was looking forward to getting behind the wheel again in a Monster Truck. This was a very busy weekend having three shows in one weekend. Jimmy looked great driving Obsession! I guess it’s just like riding a bike. He looked and said he felt very comfortable behind the wheel and it showed! He even managed to take out Rick in racing. Unfortunately we had some rear steering issues with Obsession, but Jimmy was still able to put on an awesome show for the crowd. In Obsessed we had to change a transmission on Friday night but that didn’t stop rick from putting on a strong show for the rest of the weekend! We would like to thank Jimmy and his Father Tom for all of the hard work and Mike and Rob for crewing and helping out the Obsession Racing Team!

MENIFEE, CA – The last three weekends Obsession Racing attended three events for Monster Jam, two in California and one in Oregon. The first weekend was held in Portland Oregon on February 12th and 13th at the Rose Garden Arena. This weekend had three events in two days. Both afternoon shows on Saturday and Sunday had huge pit parties. The Saturday afternoon and Saturday night show Jeff Jones took Obsession all the way to the semi finals. Where Jeff shined in racing! Rick’s limelight was in freestyle. They put on a great show for the Obsession Racing team! On Sunday afternoon Jeff’s shock broke on Obsession during his first round of racing, which put him out for the rest of the afternoon. Rick in Obsessed did an awesome job of racing but unfortunately the call was made to a company truck. Rick put another great show on for Obsession Racing by hitting the big jump first of his peers and blistered some radical donut too! We would like to give a special thanks to Justin and Tom for keeping Obsession racing on their game!

Our next event was held at the Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium for the first time in history. This was an event of a lifetime and the fans proved it! The weather wasn’t on our side for this weekend, but that didn’t stop, fans, family and friends! It was continual rain Friday and Saturday. The track was a major mud pit, but the show must go on! This was the worst muddy experience we have ever dealt with! The trucks did their best under the conditions though. Racing was cut short for both trucks and freestyle was interesting and took everything the drivers could do, just to get over the jumps and to see out of their windshield! (Monster trucks don’t come with windshield wipers!) We want to thank Eric and Jim for dealing with muddy trucks and helping out! Next year when the weather holds out, Dodgers Stadium will be a premiere location.

Our latest event was held in Oakland California for yet another Monster Jam show. The forecast for this show was snow. Fortunately Mother Nature was on our side for this show. After 10 hours (at least) of cleaning the mud off of the tires, truck and throughout the trailer we didn’t want to see another drop anything!! The show was a one day event with another large pit party to start with and an evening show to follow. Saturday night in racing Jeff in Obsession fell a victim to Adam Anderson in the Grave Digger Legend. Obsessed blew an input shaft off of the starting line. Rick, Tom and Steven worked frantically to get the transmission changed in time for his freestyle. They were able to finish the job just in time to watch Jeff in Obsession go out for his freestyle show. Jeff was fearless in knowing that he now had hardened spindles and decided to see how high he could fly over the large bus stack. This was the biggest air that Jeff has experienced! He didn’t get enough out of his system the first jump so he did it again, and the picture will speak for itself! Rick in Obsessed was forth out and held the hot seat for two trucks following and gave the crowd a show they will remember!

We hope to see all of our fans at our next display in Vegas for Monster Jam! Come by and meet Eric and get an autograph of the Worlds Youngest Professional Monster Truck Driver!