Rosalee Ramer (born June 10, 1997) is a monster truck driver out of Watsonville, California who is best known as the driver of Wild Flower. She is also the daughter of Kelvin Ramer, the driver and owner of Time Flys.
Career[]
Rosalee began driving at the age of 14 and has been competing along the west coast and has garnered media attention, including an appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show in 2014 driving Detour. Her first ever show was in her hometown of Watsonville, where she would drive her father’s truck.
In 2012, she would be a fill-in driver for Iron Outlaw briefly as one of many fill-in drivers after Nick Owens' tragic death. She made her Monster Jam debut in late 2015.
In 2016 at the first show in Glendale, Ramer made her televised debut on Fox Sports 1 and did very well in freestyle. She went out 5th out of a 16 truck lineup and took the lead with a score of 35 and stayed in the Hot Seat until the very last truck, which was Dennis Anderson in Grave Digger, who beat her by 1 point. That same year, she participated in the Double Down Showdown at Monster Jam World Finals 17, but lost in the first round to Blue Thunder.
In 2017, she made her first World Finals appearance at Monster Jam World Finals 18 during which she became the first female driver to attempt a corkscrew.
In 2018, Rosalee won the Extreme Air award, ending Jim Koehler's 6-straight year winning streak with the award with her jump at World Finals 19.
In 2019, she would make another World Finals appearance after competing on Stadium Tour 2. She would make the main field and was supposed to run in the high jump, but the second Wild Flower that was run on her dad's truck suffered mechanical issues and was unable to compete, which meant she would only end up running in the main field instead. That would also mark her final World Finals appearance altogether.
In 2020, Rosalee won her first and only freestyle event in Anaheim. The tour would be brought to a halt later, due to a pandemic occuring. Charlie Pauken would end up being announced as the winner, one point ahead of Camden Murphy, afterwards. Both Rosalee & her father Kelvin are currently on a break and their return to competition is unknown because her father's towing business has been really busy since the pandemic, therefore putting their trucks on hold.
In 2023, Rosalee returned to Monster Jam at the World Finals and later at the Super Star Challenge as a professional judge. She would post on her Instagram of a possible return to competition.
In 2024, she would once again return as a professional judge at World Finals XXIII. The other judges were Tom Meents, Bernard Lyght & the Diesel brothers.
World Finals appearances[]
- 2016 - Wild Flower (DDS)
- 2017 - Wild Flower
- 2018 - Wild Flower
- 2019 - Wild Flower (main) & high jump - (broke)
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