00:00Jumping a monster truck is like flying. Now we're going 30, 40, sometimes even 50
00:05feet in the air. It's pretty indescribable.
00:15Some people try and give me a hard time because I'm a girl once in a while but
00:18you know you really can't let it get to you. If you do then that's your biggest
00:22disadvantage.
00:25My name is Rosalie Raymer. I am 20 years old and I am the driver of the
00:31Wildflower Monster Truck and the youngest professional female monster truck driver.
00:35And we're here in Turlock, California today for the Spring Nationals.
00:50So I've been racing monster trucks professionally since I was 14 years old.
00:53When I was 13 I crushed my very first car and then by 14 I was in full-time competition.
00:59All right, hold it.
01:02I think I was too young to remember when I first started working with trucks and cars.
01:13I have pictures at three years old holding flashlights out at monster truck shows while
01:18the guys were working on trucks.
01:20As soon as I got the opportunity.
01:25I've always been working on trucks alongside my dad, whether that's working on his truck,
01:29helping build my own.
01:30You have that side?
01:34All right.
01:35My dad is like my best friend, you know, it's pretty great getting to spend every weekend
01:41on the road with him.
01:44At age 11 she was driving my truck around in the pit area, getting comfortable with it.
01:48So it was just an ongoing progression and we just added that in.
01:53It just seemed like the natural next step to put her in a monster truck and set up one
01:58that fit her and her style.
02:06This is Wildflower, my 1932 Ford Coupe monster truck.
02:10She runs on 66 inch tall tires, so that's five foot six inches.
02:16That's as tall as I am, but they weigh about somewhere between 600 and 800 pounds depending
02:21on the tire you run.
02:24Back here for our power source we've got 565 cubic inches of blown alcohol motor.
02:30So she's got about 15 to 1600 horsepower and she runs on methanol.
02:35Back here's my wheelie bar.
02:36You can see it gets a lot of action.
02:37Last weekend, wheelie contest, bent it up a little bit.
02:45We've got two nitrogen shocks on each corner of the truck.
02:48So to go along with the two nitrogen shocks in each corner, we run a four link suspension.
02:52Monster trucks are a lot to handle.
02:53It's two different complete steering systems, a lot of horsepower, a lot of responsibility.
02:59But, you know, I think I was definitely ready when I jumped in the seat.
03:07Sometimes I say it's kind of like driving a roller coaster, but I have control over it.
03:19The highest I've jumped is probably about 50 feet in the air.
03:24I mean, the adrenaline rush is absolutely insane.
03:27Going 30, 40 feet in the air, you feel like you're flying and sometimes there's a moment
03:32of hang time when you're up there.
03:34Where you just lose your breath a little bit and you're not sure exactly when you're going
03:41to land, but you're still planning for when you do.
03:44It's pretty incredible.
03:45Ready to go, dad?
03:46Ready to have some fun?
03:47Yes.
03:48Alrighty.
03:49Love you.
03:50Love you too.
03:51Alrighty.
03:52Good to go.
03:53I probably competed in over 300 competitions.
04:07I've won multiple competitions from freestyle to racing to donut competitions and wheelie
04:22contests.
04:24I'm studying mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech with a minor in industrial design and
04:38right now I'm going into my fourth year.
04:40I try to keep monster trucks in school pretty separate.
04:42Right now with the build of our new truck, we're working on the chassis.
04:46So getting all the tubes bent and fitted before we weld it up to start putting the rest of the
04:50truck together.
04:53It's a lot of fun.
04:54To be able to share something, a passion, that you have together makes it just so much
04:59more fun and exciting.
05:02Monster Trucks is the only platform really where girls and boys compete on an even playing
05:07field.
05:08There's no girls monster trucks, boys monster trucks.
05:10We're all out there competing against each other together.
05:13I'm doing something I love to do out here and I like to say I put my best into everything.
05:17Who think Rosalie should win the night in the wild?
05:22How are you here?
05:28All right.
05:29All right.
05:30Well, can you guys think let me be a Zusammen, who know what All right him.
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