Four-wheel drive never looked so violent as it does when mud racing is the game. I grew up with trail trucks…little big of rocks, little bit of mud, and maybe a Buick to park on at the end of the day. Nothing that the average lifted rig couldn’t handle in the right hands. But deep mud requires wheelspin, which requires power…lots of it, applied without discretion. You want the tires to keep spinning so the mud flies off and the chunky rubber can grab the next bit of semi-solid earth and, hopefully, pull your truck forward that much more. Or, judging from these runs from the Michigan Mud Jam, you simply stand on the throttle with your entire weight until your ride starts to hydroplane over the muddy surface while you hang on and hope that you’ve got the nose pointed where you want it to go. Let the engine and the tires do the work and whatever you do, stay out of the ditch that runs alongside the course!
