Derek Boyd
#72
Age: 36
Competitor Info:
Car Info:
Year: 2008
Make: Mitsubishi
Model: Lancer Evolution X
Drive Train: All Wheel Drive
Base: 104"
Weight: 3000 lbs.
Engine Make: Mitsubishi
Displacement ci: 134
Fuel Types: E-85 - ethanol
Frame: Stock
Additional info: Turbo and overhead cam
Pikes Peak
History
- Best Time: 2020 – 10:11.446 – beating his previous best by 46 seconds
- Best Finish: 2020 – 2nd place – Unlimited division and 10th place overall.
- “The Machine”
- Acquired in 2012
- Was already modified but Derek was not even close to being satisfied with it.
- It weighed 3,550 lbs. which was not where Derek and his team wanted it.
- It took the car two years to become race-worthy for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb
- Secondary fuel – nitrous
- Rookie year time was 11:40.786 (2014)
- Crashed the car in 2015
- The car caught fire several times in 2016 but still competed. His time – 10:57.684
- From 2014 through 2019 – Derek ran in the Time Attack division.
- Before the 2020 event, Boyd stated, “It has been a rough past few years, and I never know what to expect from Pikes Peak. It’s an unpredictable and sometimes hostile force.”
- After struggling with 2 DNFs, and a couple of weather-shortened course runs, Derek laid down his best run yet in 2020 when he switched to the Unlimited division.
- Ran a shortened course in 2018 and 2021
- This will be Derek’s 8th run on Pikes Peak in his Mitsubishi Evo X