Derek West Battles Mud and High Water in Oklahoma

Derek West Battles the mud at the start of Ultra4 Davis Oklahoma

Derek West: May 19-20, 2017… Ultra 4 at Davis, OK for the 1st East Coast Series Race of the 2017 season was one for the books! Tons of rain, thunderstorms, tornado warnings, roads flooded, motor homes & cars stuck in the heavy mud, but the race went on!

Friday due to the storms qualifying and all events were cancelled. Saturday things were delayed 2 hours due to all the water on the course. They went with a random draw for starting order for the main 4400 race. Derek got 12th in line to start with 10 second intervals between each car. There were a total of 41 cars that showed up to race with a couple opting out due to all the mud and severity of the course.

Derek West before the Race at Davis, OK

It was a rough one!! Derek and co-driver David Fox took off the line 12th and quickly moved up to 2nd place. Then mechanical issues set in due to all the water causing the alternator to fail. They made it to the pit and replaced it out. The guys took off for their 2nd lap and got stuck on a tree that was embedded into a mud hole, but managed to winch out and come in with a finish of 22nd out of 41 race teams. They finished 2 laps of the 3 since Ultra 4 shut the course down once all outlets became plugged with stuck cars they couldn’t finish their 3rd lap.

Overall they did great under the circumstances. The team is now back home and working on cleaning all this mud up and prepping for the next event.

Ultra 4 at Davis Oklahoma 2017Getting stuck in mud in the pits at Ultra4 Davis Oklahoma

Team #20’s next event is the weekend of June 9th at Pumpjack Off Road Park for the 3rd event of the Outlaw Off Road Racing Series. Then after that the 2nd Ultra 4 East Coast Race in Attica, Indiana the weekend of June 23rd.

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