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MENIFEE, CA – The month of May has been a very busy month, although we only had two weekends of racing, we have spent every other day working on our new 53’ trailer. Our first event for May was the Monster Jam event in Salinas California. Racing was on Sunday the 16th and our displays started the 13th and 14th held on Main Street. Saturday we had a 5 hour long pit party/autograph session that was out in front of the venue. This was open to the public for anyone to attend. Rick went through a couple of rounds in racing and met up with Pat Gerber in Shocker. Pat was on a mission to win and in the final round his battery cable came off and cost him his victory. For freestyle Rick was the fifth truck out and was the first one to go off of the big jumps which brought the crowd to their feet.

From Salinas California we headed to Fischer’s Towing in Grass Valley California where we were able to leave our truck and trailer. This way Rick could fly home in between events. We want to give a special thanks to Ron and Debbie Fischer for all of the help and support they give us. Our next event was in Monroe Washington for WHR Motorsports that held 2 events over Memorial weekend. On Saturday night it was a very tricky course due to the fact that it was on asphalt with dirt ramps with rainy weather. Rick won racing and wooed the crowd with his awesome donuts in freestyle. For the Sunday show it was Rick and David in King Krunch in the finals for racing. This was one of the times where qualifying time is in your favor for lane choice. David qualified first and Rick qualified second. This gave David land choice and also the win. Rick once again did a great crowd pleasing freestyle for all of the Monroe fans!

Our next event will be held in Missoula Montana for WHR Motorsports.

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.

MENIFEE, CA – On March 26th and 27th was the Las Vegas Monster Jam event. We were very busy getting ready for this show. When you own two out of seventy trucks on display, you want to make sure that you have two best looking trucks there. We like to make our sponsors proud of the image that we uphold. We want to make them proud that we are representing their company. This year in Vegas we had a very busy agenda for Obsession Racing. We had both trucks on display and Obsession had a brand new wrap and design. Obsession was encored by George Balhan (driver of Escalade) as the Mohawk warrior debuting his new truck design for next year. Along with the body swaps Rick also was helping Daron Basl crew for the King Krunch Monster truck. Rick was honored to be asked to help crew for David Smith in King Krunch. Rick said I was a lot of work but he really enjoyed working with David, Daron and Jeff and looks forward to working with their team again next year. Eric Swanson and Jeff Jones signed autographs for the two day display for Obsessed and Obsession. It was a six hour display and got to meet a lot of people and make new fans. We have to give them a big thanks for doing autographs for two days so that Rick could help David Smith and the Flame Motorsports team to be at their best for the Monster Jam show. Sunday night was the Monster Jam awards banquet. We are proud to mention that Jeff Jones was nominated for Rookie of the year for driving Obsession. We are currently booking spring and summer shows now with both truck and we are looking forward to a successful year. We are thankful for having such wonderful sponsors and friends that help us to make Obsession Racing a success.