MENIFEE, CA – Obsession Racing has been extremely busy the past couple of months. This spring season started out in Fresno California for Monster Jam. This was a single truck event with Rick piloting Eric’s truck Obsessed. Rick had a great time as usual being with his dedicated fans and coworkers. At Fridays show Rick won his first round of racing but unfortunately the ring & pinion broke and this ended his night of racing. On Saturday night during his wheelie completion he broke a spindle but he got it back up and running and put on a great freestyle show. On Sunday morning Rick fell and severely bruised his ribs and kidneys. We were fortunate enough that Jimmy Lehnertz was available and willing to drive for Rick on Sunday. This was Jimmy’s first time driving Obsessed and his accustomed to it very well and did a great job of racing and freestyle. We want to give a big thanks to Jimmy, Tom, and Michael Lehnertz for everything they did to help out Obsession Racing in troubled times.

Mothers Day weekend was once again spent at the track for Outlaw Monster Truck Events in San Bernardino California. Both Rick and Eric did this event. It was a four truck show that included our two and the 2 Extreme Monster Trucks. This was a freestyle show only. Out of three competitions of freestyle, Rick and Eric each won a round and Bounty won one round. This was a nice Mothers Day gift to me in seeing how well our son handles and performs professionally in his Monster Truck. It was a nice weekend in all.

Our next event was held in Salinas California for Monster Jam. They start off with displaying the trucks on Wednesday through Saturday and the freestyle and racing show is on Sunday. On Sunday it just wasn’t Rick’s day for racing but he made up for it in freestyle. He set the bar higher than the first five trucks that competed and made the following truck work for their points! Rick did great even though he was still feeling sore from his injury a month before.

Our next event Obsession Racing is headed to Mexico for Monster Truck Show Down. We will be leaving California for the rest of this spring season.

MENIFEE, CA –The beginning of March started off with two back to back stadium shows in El Paso Texas. Saturday night Obsession Racing had Jimmy going to the third round of racing in Obsession and Rick made it all the way to the Semi final round in Obsessed in racing. Jimmy always does his best during freestyle. He did huge sky wheelies across the bus and had lots of variations on all of the obstacles and even made the step up look easy. Rick went out for his freestyle run and caught some big air also and did a good slap wheel and ended with his typical cyclones, which always is a crowd pleaser. On Sunday in El Paso Obsession and Obsessed both had great runs during racing; although during Rick’s third round of racing he had electrical problems which prevented him from running for the rest of the day. Jimmy’s freestyle was spectacular ending his show with a grant finally of a roll over! At least this happened with us have some open time for the next two weeks!

On March 23rd and 24th we were on display for Monster Jam in Las Vegas at Sam Boyd Stadium. This event has more than 30,000 attendees for all 50 states and even other countries. It is always nice to see our fans from all over the world. Rick and Jimmy signed autographs on Friday and Rick and Eric signed on Saturday. We stayed an extra day in Las Vegas and did a display for AmeriGas on Monday for customer appreciation open house and lunch. There was a great outcome for AmeriGas and was very successful.

We ended the month with a display for our sponsors AmeriGas and Gold’s Gym in Murrieta California. We would like to thank Jimmy Lehnertz, Tom Lehnertz, Tom Read, Mike Read, and Frank Schettini for all of their help with Obsession Racing.

MENIFEE, CA – February was another busy month for Obsession Racing. Our first show of this month was in Portland Oregon. There were two shows on Saturday the 11th and one show on Sunday the 12th. Rick and Jimmy Lehnertz performed for Monster Jam for this event. Our trucks made it to the Semi finals on Saturday and on Sunday both trucks made it to the finals in racing. They both did an awesome job for our Portland Fans in Freestyle also. Tom Lehnertz and Justin Barrett immediately tired down for Obsession Racing after the last performance so that Rick, Jimmy & Tom could head home before the snow to get ready for another Monster Jam event at Dodgers Stadium in LA. We would like to thank Jimmy Lehnertz, Tom Lehnertz and Justin Barrett for there help and support for the Obsession Racing Team.

On the following Friday after Portland, we were loading trucks for the Dodgers Stadium show Rick discovered that we had some engine problems in Obsessed. We are extremely grateful for our good friend Frank Schettini to lend us his motor out of his Monster Truck (Pro Comp)! Rick, Jimmy & Tom rushed to Frank shop to pull his motor on Friday night before the show! They got the motor and were back to our shop at 10:00pm and Rick, Jimmy, Tom and Eric started wrenching away!! They got the motor in around 4:30am and loaded the truck. They had around 2 hours sleep and we were up and headed to Dodgers! They got the trucks tired up in time for the Pitt Party. Rick made it through the first round of racing and qualified as fifth fastest truck in qualifying. Jimmy had a crowd pleasing freestyle run and caught a lot of air and didn’t miss any of the jumps! Rick had the longest wheelie of the night in his freestyle competition that brought the crowd to their feet!

The Monday after the LA show, Rick and Eric did a show for WGAS Motorsports in Indio California. This was a fair show and was strictly freestyle only. This was the first event of the year for Eric and you would have never guessed it as he is a natural piloting his Obsessed truck! Rick got to drive Obsession for the first time also of this year also having the new paint design. This brought him back some old memories of his first Obsession. He also did a great job for his California Fans and Family. This same show continued on the following Saturday and Rick and Eric did a great job just like they did on Monday. We had a great time at this show will Family and close friend and we wanted to thank Tom Read for his help and making his famous yummy Tatar Tots!!

Rick and Jimmy will be headed to El Paso Texas for a two day stadium show in March for Monster Jam! They are looking forward to seeing their Texas Fans!