This page presents some history of the car ...
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As featured in the September '99 issue of TOP GEAR magazine, International Edition, published by the BBC |
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Berube glides to the finish line, surfing down the strip on a vast surge of noiseless power. Eliminator is running like a dream today and he records a new quarter-mile time of 10.229 seconds, with a terminal speed of 122.61 mph. He's done it - pushed the record still higher. For electric dragsters. The hushed crowd, who've come here to see things roar, scream and spew fire aren't sure what to make of it. They seem baffled and impressed in equal measure but decide to give the run a polite round of applause. |
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... Current Eliminator III's Dennis Berube has been winning longer than most. Since he started in 1993, Berube, from Phoenix, Arizona has remained the man to beat. He regularly races , and humiliates, hardened gas-guzzlers. Berube's confidence is such that recently offered a $1,000 bounty to anyone who could beat him over the quarter mile. Is he expexting to pay up today? "No. The wager's off now," he announces, I gave it to the kids in Denver after the school shooting. I used it to set up a fund to get the children interested in racing."
Dennis Berubé is here, unloading his purebred dragster from a long, white, professional-looking box-shaped trailer that he's hauled from his home in Arizona. The navy blue racer is decorated with spiffy electric-discharge patterns in special reflective paint. On its rear, in block letters just above a big on/off switch, is a challenge: "$1,000 TO ANY ELECTRIC QUICKER." Berubé's car holds the current world speed record for any electric vehicle, and he has a standing cash offer to anyone who can shut him down. And, if you can read German, here's an article from the 6/21/99 issue of Der Spiegel on the electric drag racing phenomena: derspiegelarticle.pdf (212KB; Adobe Acrobat reader required). vehicle related links see the Current Eliminator II page. Check it out! ^ For the Latest Info,
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