Destruction Derby ignites the Yolo County Fair - Daily Democrat
Tempers were already running hot even before the decade-old smash-and-bash contest between drivers of banged up trucks hit the muddied arena Friday, but it wasn’t until a fuel line snapped and flames engulfed driver Mike Olvera mid-way through the... Fellow Woodland competitor Robbie Kolb — who only moments earlier had rammed Olvera’s mini as it lay trapped between three other trucks — scrambled out of his cab, leapt over the hood and into the mud to pound out the flames on Olvera’s right rear... The audience roared back to life, cheering, clapping and hooting as Olvera celebrated his survival and embraced his father, Vince Olvera, who scrambled through the mud and debris to his son. Kolb would go on to take the Mini Truck competition, but it was Mike Olvera everyone considered the true winner of the contest. Later, while being attended by medical aides outside the arena, the 36-year-old Olvera — his wife standing nearby, face ashen — said he was fine with minor burns and scrapes to the rear of his right and left legs. Source: www.dailydemocrat.com
