At the most famous land speed trials, such as Bonneville’s Speed Week, speed runs take place over miles and miles of open salt, with timing traps along the way to determine competitor’s speeds.

as Danny Thompson and company broke the wheel-driven land speed record by going nearly 450 mph. But Bonneville isn't just a place for record runs. It's an all-out celebration of going way too fast ...

Meeting the drivers racing across the salt flats at Bonneville Speed Week. Featuring ... course – a one mile flying start – over two runs (or passes) made in opposite directions within ...

The way these speed runs are done isn't like a drag race ... ready only to have it all go to hell at the very start. Look, Bonneville is amazing, the salt flats are otherworldly, and the people ...

The good news: veteran Bonneville racer George Poteet ... Speed Demon with a two-way average speed up and down the salt of 470 mph. Those runs broke the record set in 2018 by Danny Thompson ...

Instead, Bonneville land speed racers fight a paper battle ... consisting of a qualifying run and record run. Qualifying runs start on the opening race day of Speed Week. The vehicle must surpass ...

The single event which made Bonneville '85 the greatest week of speed in its 37-year history-aside from the results which numbered 14 runs over 300 mph, 12 new "two club" members, and 72 new ...

It’s not the Indianapolis 500 or NASCAR, but Bonneville ... d be our guide at Speed Week 2016, helping us zip from one end of the course to the other during Thompson’s runs.

Our early runs were made on a 70/30 mixture of alcohol ... who went 141.73 mph in his Blitzen Benz in 1914. The first Bonneville Speed Week took place in 1949. The HOT ROD Magazine trophy has ...

The Camaro is one of the most storied race cars in SCTA history, having achieved record runs with the likes ... Taylor Joins 200 MPH Club at Bonneville, Sets New Speed Record appeared first ...

As usual, it was hot at the Bonneville Salt Flats ... SCTA rules state that two runs, with an average speed higher than the existing record, are required to be considered a new record.

Breedlove was the first to exceed 500 mph and then 600 mph in his land speed record runs at the Bonneville Salt Flats. At 26 years old, Craig Breedlove shattered a land speed record that had been ...