MENIFEE, CA – On Friday September 21 we rolled into Lancaster, CA for a two day three show weekend. The weekend started off Friday morning with a sound check on the Fabtech Obsession Monster Truck for a new video game. Once he was done with the sound check he prepped the truck for Friday nights racing. The Monster Jam field of truck included: Natural High, Iron Outlaw, Black Smith, Fabtech Obsession, Bounty Hunter and Grave Digger. Friday night the Fabtech Obsession made it to the semi finals where Rick ran out in front until he clipped a turning post that cost him the race.

Saturday morning he woke up to a rain soaked race track. This put driving skills to the test having to make four complete u turns. Rick was up for the challenge and made it all the way up to the finals. In the final round Rick was up against Grave Digger and it ended with a very close race with Grave Digger taking the win. On Saturday night Rick was after a Monster Jam win. This would be the toughest trucks in this weekend’s line up. Having to face Iron Outlaw, Bounty Hunter and Grave Digger once again in the finals. Rick charged hard in the corners and ran a very clean strong pass but unfortunately it was Grave Diggers weekend. Rick is looking forward to a rematch.

We are proud to quote the USHRA.com recap article for Lancaster that states, “Rick Swanson and Obsession had a good weekend as well. Rick made it to the racing finals twice over the weekend and was in it to the finish in both contests, just coming up a little short. It is always fun the watch Rick race. He is one of the guys that believe the fastest way to race is the shortest distance from point A to point B. He charges the corners as hard anyone in the business, dynamites the brakes and makes the truck pivot. He is one of the best in the business.”

MENIFEE, CA – Rick headed down to TJ Mexico on Thursday 30th for Rick to defend his Mexico undefeated championship. This time it was a new line up of trucks. On the promoters web site the Fabtech Obsession constantly stayed up in the top 3 fan favorite trucks. It changed daily between The Fabtech Obsession, Bounty Hunter and Jurassic Attack. As always Thursday afternoon was the media day. Friday evening is the parade and kick off party and Saturday is racing.

Saturday night started out with qualifying and the top three was The Fabtech Obsession with the fastest time. Bounty Hunter took second fastest and in third Maniac. This set the tone to how he would run the rest of the night. The Fabtech Obsession worked its way down the line and went into the semi finals where he defeated Iron Outlaw. This left him faced with second fastest qualifier Bounty Hunter. When the dust had settled it was all Fabtech Obsession for the championship. This made Rick and the Fabtech Obsession Team undefeated once again in Mexico.

This weekend the Fabtech Obsession will be heading down to Phoenix, AZ at the new Cardinal Stadium to face some new trucks to compete against. This event will put the West Coast trucks against the West trucks. Rick and the Fabtech Obsession team will do everything they can to make sure we come back with bragging rights

MENIFEE, CA – On August 24th we rolled into Monroe Washington for rounds 13 & 14 for the MOD Series. Monroe has one of the longest straight line tracks with a very unique and challenging obstacle course.

The obstacle course is on asphalt with dirt ramps. It started out with a double to a single rhythm section. Then it went into a sweeping turn to the first big tabletop. Sixty feet later was a giant tabletop into a very tight u-turn. Then the straight line race track that consisted of, a five foot tall tabletop and then it was about 80 feet to the cars. Ninety feet after the fifth car was the finish line. This track was set up to test the driver’s ability. This track definitely showed that horsepower is important, but driving skill is what it takes to advance.

In a field of ten trucks we were proud to say that we went to the finals in both straight line and obstacle course in round 13. In straight line finals The Fabtech Obsession had to settle for second place against “Driver of the Year” Linsey Weenk.

Round 13 Obstacle course was very challenging especially during our semi final pass. The other driver hit the turning post receiving a 2 second penalty giving the win to the Fabtech Obsession by more than a second. We all know turning posts have always been penalties. The other competitor said we did not go over this rule in the drivers meeting. With this complaint of the other driver, officials had made the decision to rerun the race. Rick had to prove himself once again by winning with another honest win. This put us into the finals once again against Linsey Weenk. The Fabtech Obsession gave his little 468 motor all she had and was up on two wheels in the corner giving Linsey the win.

Round 14 straight line racing The Fabtech Obsession pulled the fastest time in round one even with a red light penalty. Having a red light you are disqualified and your time doesn’t count. Given only 1 point for this race the Fabtech Obsession is still in first place.

In Obstacle racing The Fabtech Obsession ended up in third place. The points from rounds 13 & 14 gave the Fabtech Obsession a good points lead over second place.

To stay in first place in this series there is no room for mistakes. We need to stay focused and give it all we’ve got so we can show people to win the series and dedicated this to Rick’s Dad is our #1 Obsession.