Paul Wolff, the current Ultra4 USA points leader in 4400, will bring his UFO rock crawler to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in June.

“We are extremely stoked to be selected for this race and can’t wait to represent the sport of Ultra4 as well as all our amazing partners at this historic race,” reads a statement from his team. “This has been a bucket list race for Paul since he was racing junk cars around the scrapyard in his youth.”

Wolff is coming off winning the Ultra4 season-opening Maxxis Area BFE Beatdown in Moab. The multi-time Ultra4 champion, who’s won titles in the East, West, and National Series, has been competing in the discipline since 2017 before going full time in 2022. He also dabbles in short course, racing Pro SxS and Pro 4 in Championship Off-Road for the past two years.

In February, he was one of 80 retirements from the Race of Kings but became a King of the Hammers legend in the process. After winning the pole, he did the entire race solo with no co-driver, and continued to fight for the lead despite engine problems and breakdowns into the night until his car gave out.

While rock crawling is a completely different discipline from hillclimbing, there have been drivers from the former who dabbled in the latter. The Lovell family has done Pikes Peak, with reigning KOH Every Man Challenge winner Brad Lovell finishing third in Pikes Peak Open in 2010, while former Ultra4 race director JT Taylor won Exhibition at the 2010 PPIHC.

If he wanted his 4400 to match the other hillclimbers, Wolff could always bring back the rear wing he installed on it for the 2024 KOH. Wolff had been experimenting with the car’s aerodynamics since Johnson Valley’s desert sections allowed him to hit triple-digit miles per hour. Whether it really helped him is hard to say as he DNF’d, but hey.

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