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