In March of 1996 at the EVTC and APS sponsored Saturday Night Electric Drags at Firebird International Raceway Roderick was lined up next to General Motors' new electric "Impact" that was the prototype for the EV1. This vehicle had earlier done 183 mph at a track in Texas. With a gearing change the GM team felt no electric car could out accelerate them. When the light turned green Roderick must have been sleeping as the GM car launched ahead of the red Mazda RX7. When he finally woke up and nailed it he stormed past them before they reached the Christmas tree lights and left them in the dust. The crowd cheered and screamed "DC Rules". Earlier in the day in a road race with their 216 volt powered Ford Taurus Roderick had passed all the competitors in the straightaway but spun out in the turn one hairpin. Tom Sneeva of Indy fame was the second one into the turn and hit the Taurus head on in his APS sponsored Ford Probe. In reporting on the event The Los Angelos times referred to Roderick as a "racing daredevil".
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Roderick Wilde first got interested in electric vehicles back in 1992 and was a founding member of NOPEC (Northern Olympic Peninsula Electric Cars) the local electric car club in Port Townsend. In 1993 he entered his first electric car race held at PIR (Phoenix International Raceways) in Phoenix, Arizona. He was running a 1979 Mazda RX7 running two strings of Interstate Mega Tron plus batteries at 120 volts with a 400 amp Curtis controller. In a ten lap race to showcase street legal EVs (electric vehicles) he lapped three fourths of his competition and was about two thirds of a lap ahead of his nearest competitor, a Ford Mustang built by the Arizona Department of Transportation. Because of the speed on the PIR track without a roll cage they decided to not have any street electric races there. With a good car and nowhere to race he started experimenting and hopping it up even more and thus began his electric drag racing career
