{"id":1036,"date":"2014-06-25T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2014-06-25T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:22:44","slug":"rupert-rebounds-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Rebounds Quickly!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jason<\/a>

Jason Rupert had a dominating performance at IHRA Grand Bend which included both low ET (5.729 secs) and top speed – 243.50 mph<\/p><\/div>\n

Just one week prior to the IHRA’s Mopar Canadian Nitro Jam at Grand Bend Ontario, Nitro Funny Car competitor Jason Rupert found himself packing his bags early after having just failed to qualify for the President’s Cup Nationals in Maryland.<\/p>\n

But at Grand Bend, Rupert put that poor performance behind him and returned to form in a major way, dominating the class he has led all season long in claiming his fourth Ironman of 2014 season.<\/p>\n

Rupert qualified first for the sixth time this season and claimed his fourth win all in dominating fashion, besting longtime rival Mark Sanders in an all-Pacific Coast final. Rupert culminated his weekend with a 5.895-second elapsed time at 242.06 mph to take the win.<\/p>\n

“Racing is all about peaks and valleys and you can go from hero to zero in less than a second. Last week we had something happen. We couldn’t get ahold of the track and we tried some other things and nothing seemed to work,” Rupert said. “We got here this weekend and we decided to start over. Everything seemed to work and respond how it should and it resulted in us getting back on track with the win.”<\/p>\n

Rupert, piloting the Bays and Rupert “Black Plague” ’69 Camaro, paced the field by a solid margin on Saturday to claim his sixth pole position of the season, with only his DNQ in Maryland standing in the way of a perfect year. From the top spot, Rupert eliminated Mike Halstead, Tim Boychuk and Sanders, with all three of his opponents running into trouble during their runs. Rupert had laps of 6.147, 5.771 and 5.895 on his way to the Ironman in Grand Bend.<\/p>\n

“We really weren’t all that consistent this weekend. There were two runs I had to abort, we stripped a spark plug at the last minute and we had a new set of wheels and tires that we had trouble with, so we know that the gremlin is still there, we were just able to conquer it today,” Rupert said.<\/p>\n

\"Canada's<\/a>

Canada’s Tim Boychuk — who had won previously at GBM – qualified 4th and went to the semi final round<\/p><\/div>\n

AMSOIL Nitro Funny Car (Eliminations Summary):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Round 1<\/strong> – Jason Rupert, 6.147, 239.17 def. Mike Halstead, 7.888, 109.94; Tim Boychuk, 5.853, 243.83 def. Bruce Litton, 6.117, 229.29; Mark Sanders, 6.071, 228.77 def. Ronny Young, 6.694, 163.75; Mike McIntire Jr., 5.937, 231.89 def. Gary Kraus, 8.100, 114.59<\/p>\n

Semis<\/strong> – Rupert, 5.771, 248.61 def. Boychuk, 6.445, 171.23; Sanders, 5.891, 244.69 def. McIntire 5.891, 237.21<\/p>\n

Final<\/strong> – Rupert, 5.895, 242.06 def. Sanders, 6.441, 184.01<\/p>\n

\"Check<\/a>

Check out this rather classic “flash back” – the Candies & Hughes Cuda versus the Blue Max Arrow!<\/p><\/div>\n

Posted by: Larry Crum<\/em>
\nPhotos by: Bruce Biegler<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just one week prior to the IHRA’s Mopar Canadian Nitro Jam at Grand Bend Ontario, Nitro Funny Car competitor Jason Rupert found himself packing his bags early after having just failed to qualify for the President’s Cup Nationals in Maryland. But at Grand Bend, Rupert put that poor performance behind him and returned to form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}