Sun, 23 Oct 2005, 07:23 PM Competition Eliminator Final, Round 5 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

LAS VEGAS - Results of final, round 5 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Fifth annual ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   10 Bo Butner III                           8 David Rampy                  
E5                   0.041  8.743 154.26     ****WINNER****  0.023  7.402 178.21
       D/SM Index: 9.27 (+/-): -0.527            A/EA Index: 7.94 (+/-): -0.538
 Prior rounds:
E4    (M DePalma   ) 0.029  8.769 -0.501      (D Carter    ) 0.019  7.433 -0.537
E3    (J Taylor    ) -0.019  8.910 -0.360      (J Lane      ) 0.077  7.521 -0.449
E2    (J Gebhardt  ) 0.052  8.780 -0.490      (J Tanksley  ) 0.093  7.469 -0.621
E1    (J Mihovetz  ) 0.024  8.761 -0.599      (C Bourgeois ) 0.027  7.829 -0.261
 Qualified:             #2  8.703 -0.657                        #1  7.432 -0.658

4:16 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 78 degrees, relative humidity 26 percent, barometer 28.25 inches, adjusted altitude 3,381 feet, track temperature 98 degrees.

Bo Butner III has a 0.09 CIC penalty; David Rampy has a 0.15 CIC penalty. Rampy had a nice starting line advantage and enough power to hold Butner off on the top end to join a very short list of drivers with more than one national event "double." Only Rampy, Edmond Richardson, and Jeff Taylor have done so more than once.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink