MENIFEE, CA – This New Year has new changes for Obsession Racing. It started off with having to replace the cradle for the Obsession frame. The truck was torn completely down in order to do the cradle replacement. This also gave us the opportunity to do a color change and have a new look for Obsession. The truck was completely unassembled by having the cradle replaced, frame supported, completely sandblasted all parts, rebuilt shocks and axles, paint and reassembled all in 28 days!! We didn’t see Rick or Eric outside of the shop but maybe only a few hours out of the day! EVEN on the Holidays! We were fortunate enough to have help from Mike Read from Superior Welding, Frank Schettini, Jimmy and Tom Lehnertz, Tom Read and Eric’s friends Kaya and Damon. We couldn’t thank these friends enough for putting in so many hours and even a couple of all nighters!

Unfortunately due to Jeff Jones job, he is unable to drive for Obsession Racing. We are sorry this happened but due to his high level position at AmeriGas it demands more of his time. When we got this news Jimmy Lehnertz stepped up to the plate for us. He had driven for us before when we had needed a driver. We are very blessed in having Jimmy drive for us. Jimmy is a long time friend and started driving Monster Trucks around the same time that we did. We feel confident in Jimmy driving abilities and are confident he will do a great job for Obsession Racing.

Our first show of 2012 was held at Anaheim Stadium for Monster Jam. This show was booked for both trucks. Rick was in Obsessed and Jimmy was in Obsession. Both of the guys handled the trucks great! Jimmy was third out for freestyle and did a phenomenal job! He was the first truck to sky it out! He cleared the bus length wise and kept the truck on four wheels, but unfortunately the four link bar bent and ended his freestyle early. Rick was seventh out in Obsessed. He must have had Wheaties for breakfast because he put on an incredible freestyle! He hit every obstacle at full force and finished up the show with his famous no handed donuts! He held the hot seat for the next six trucks! It was an amazing show! We owe a special thanks to Mike Read for the amazing shock set up which helped immensely!!

The following show was January 21st in San Diego also for Monster Jam. This event only had Obsessed booked for the show. Rick was piloting Obsessed. We were grateful that the rain stopped about 1:00 pm. The track crew did an awesome job preparing the track; however it was still a handful to race on. Rick went out fifth in Obsessed for freestyle and again put on another great show. He also got to be up in the hot seat once again! We had Eric friends Dad (Don Gladu) who is a fireman help crew for our team for the first time. It was great to have an extra set of hands and he said he never realized how much was involved! I think he had a good time!

On January 28th Obsessed was solely booked for another Monster Jam Show in Anaheim California. For this show Rick wanted to put on a good impression for Obsession Racing as the higher ups would all be there watching. He did just that! He put on another awesome freestyle pleasing all of the fans! He placed sixth out of sixteen trucks in freestyle. This is going to be a good year!!

We look forward to seeing more of our friends, fans and family in our upcoming events. Our next show will be in Portland Oregon with both Rick and Jimmy driving Obsessed and Obsession! See ya at the races!!

Photo credits to: Fred at Goldenstar Photography Suzie Pusteniak Dan Henley

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!