Derrike will be driving in Darlington with Friendly's as the sponsor and SP/Films on board.

In the first practice Derrike was 43rd fastest with a time of 30.528 and speed of 161.085.

In qualifying, he went out 17th and produced a lap of 30.224 and speed of 162.705. This put him in 16th position at the time. At the end of the round, the team took a provisional and Derrike will be starting in 42nd position.

During qualifying the announcers said that Derrike had mentioned they were going to have an announcement coming up soon about a sponsorship next year that will provide enough money for them to race the whole year and do it right.

Derrike started the race in 42nd position but experienced trouble early and finished in 39th position.

Derrike said, "The Darlington weekend was still not what we have been looking for. We encountered a number of problems throughout the weekend which among other things left us with little practice time. We had to take a provisional in qualifying which still seems to be our biggest problem. As the race began we were a little too tight with the chassis set-up. Ernie had made a lot of changes before the race and definitely went the right way. The car was pretty productive. But right away we had a problem with a spark plug wire and lost laps fixing the problem but returned to the race. We continued to adjust the car throughout the day and were making some headway with the car and getting it faster. I was driving the car probably a little too aggressively for being laps down and I ran out of room coming of turn two and got a Darlington stripe. We fixed the fenders and went back out only to do it again. This time I bent the right front lower ball joint and bent the rear end truck arms which ended our day."