2011 Year End Wrap-Up
November 30, 2011
Hello to everyone and I would like to thank all our great sponsors for another great, successful year at Joe Sylvester Motorsports! It has been a very long and trying season having traveled over 60,000 miles and appearing at 67 events and static displays and tragically losing my crew chief and right hand man Brandon Pugh back in May.
We just finished up a 5 week west coast tour that started off in Las Vegas where we set the truck up on display at Mandalay Bay for the PBR World Finals Fan Zone experience thanks to Lincoln Welders! The following week, the truck was on display outside the Las Vegas Convention Center for the SEMA show and I made special appearances at both Lincoln Welders and ReadyLIFT Suspension's booths to sign autographs and shake hands with some of our fans and supporters. That same weekend, we brought the ReadyLIFT Offroad Suspension BAD HABIT out to the Lucas Oil Offroad Series race to sit on display as well as perform freestyle exhibitions. Vegas was a huge success for both my team and our sponsors as we reached a lot of new customers and developed new fans.
The next two weeks were spent performing at shows in Reno, NV and Portland, Oregon for the Monster X Tour. This was a first time for us competing on this tour and it went very well with wins both weekends in racing. While we were out west, thanks to ReadyLIFT Offroad Suspension and Lincoln Welders, the JSM transporter got a much needed facelift at Transportation Services in Sacramento, Ca. and Kelly Signs and Graphics in Harmony, Minn. We now have a top notch professional hauler that will transport the ReadyLIFT BAD HABIT Truck across the continent from coast to coast in 2012. The paint job and Vinyl wrap combo, designed by Jason Brander of the Monster Truck Mafia, turns heads everywhere we go and every time we stop people start asking questions. All Associate sponsors will have logo placement on the lower part of the trailer sides as well. It is sure to be a big hit on tour next season.
Monster Jam just sent our schedule for the first quarter of 2012. A lot of new venues and big stadium shows make up our ten event tour where we will thrill and excite hundreds of thousands of loyal monster truck fans live and millions more through SPEED television broadcasts which will start in the spring of 2012. We will also have the truck and transporter on display at Advance Auto Parts stores in every town we perform in days prior to the shows.
Mark Jackson of Shift45.com is currently working on a new and improved BAD HABIT website set to launch before Christmas this year. The new site will showcase all the latest media outlets to help our fans and sponsors keep up with everything going on in the world of Joe Sylvester Motorsports. Coupled together without wildly popular Facebook fan page and Twitter, the site which receives over 70,000 hits per month, will also feature a new online store filled with the latest BAD HABIT merchandise as well as products we sell and install through the JSM Off-Road Shop which will be open in the Spring.
Again, I would like to thank all our sponsors from 2011 and welcome our new sponsors for 2012. Without strong, supportive sponsors I would never be able to travel this great country doing what I love and performing in front of fans everywhere from Florida to Oregon. If anyone would like to have the truck on display or is interested in receiving larger signage on the transporter for 2012, please contact me for more information. I am very grateful for everyone that has stood behind me for the past five years and I look forward to taking you all to the top in 2012.
Thank you again!
-Joe Sylvester