Elko last night was a return to seriously freezing temperatures -- about 4 degrees -- and everyone’s still in shock from the departure of the BMW boys. It isn't much warmer this morning as we get ready for the next leg to Wendover.

The Lotus boys are tailing the F150 and the Honda and bugging the shit of them. This week, though, the F150 boys have had enough and record the Lotus speeding with a digital camera. Now, are they unfairly ratting out the competition or are they just fiercely competitive? You decide.


F150 noticing Lotuc as they speed past

The Salt Flats are amazing! Feels like you're on the moon! We stopped by here on the real Bullrun rally in 2005 and Hayden Christensen drag-raced Dennis Rodman -- both in Lambos. Hayden was winning and then spun out at 180 mph! Then we had about 30 cars drag race all at once across the flats -- great fun!!!


The scenery is amazing

There’s still ONLY 14 minutes between 1st and last. This is tight. Then comes the twist: the F150 team tells Goldberg about the Lotus and Honda speeding and show him their footage. Lotus and Honda get stuck with a five-minute penalty each. They go to the bottom of the leaderboard.

First up at the checkpoint challenge it's Charger vs. Chevy. The Charger edges out the Chevy but only just -- Cesar drives like a demon. The Charger comes in at 14.8 seconds vs. 15.4 seconds for the Chevy.


Chevy trying its best

It's a great grudge match in the 2nd challenge, the Lotus up against the F150!!! The Lotus posts a super-quick time of 11.4 seconds, stopping just before the wall. The F150 decides to smash through the wall at full speed to beat the Lotus. The irony is that the F150 sent the Lotus to the bottom with a time penalty, but then loses the challenge and gets stuck with the extra time the Lotus got penalized with! Team F150 also screws up their truck in the process! The headlights and the grill are gone.


Team F150 goes straight through the wall!

We get into Salt Lake City that night. It's been a long week and it's Halloween in Salt Lake City. We take the whole crew and cast out for beers and turn up at the only bar in Salt Lake that doesn’t know it’s Halloween. 200 of us and one barman. We end up jumping behind the bar and serving beers ourselves. A great night to let off some steam!

It's also time for the City of Mormons to meet some Bullrun aggression. It's open war now between Teams F150, Honda, and Lotus. Brian confronts Jason in the Bullrun tent and all hell breaks loose.

The time spread at elimination is 16 minutes between first and last and, in last place, Team Chevy goes out. If Cesar hadn't gone to the bathroom at the gas station the Chevy boys would have finished in the top two and the Charger would have been eliminated. That was one expensive bathroom break, and that alliance is over.

Bullrun Ticket to Drive Finalist #5

DeLorean wins.

A tough week! Very different cars lined up for the final but the winner this week is the DeLorean. I’m no fan of Back to the Future but this a real iconic car of the 80s. David and I are both fans of this car. First off, what a great mod job has been done to this car, making it cool for today but not a departure from the original styling. Secondly the guy who built these back in the 80s (allegedly) took a millions of dollars from Mrs Thatchers’ British government in subsidies to build this car in the UK, stopped production, went back to the USA and they then tried to put him in jail for it…they failed! Great story, great car.


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