The world’s fastest land-speed vehicles have once again descended on the hallowed racing grounds of Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats for the 2018 edition of Bonneville Speed Week. And, per usual, our friends at BangShift made the trip to the Salt Flats to cover the action and bless us with their articles and photos from what might
The 2017 edition of Bonneville Speed Week kicked off this weekend and our friends at BangShift are doing what they do better than anyone—be live on the scene with on-point event coverage and more great photos than most people have time to look at. But the Bonneville Salt Flats are an extraordinary place and provide
(Image/BangShift) Wait. Challenger? That thing got a HEMI in it? Actually, it has two. And those two 500-cubic-inch V8s powered Danny Thompson’s Challenger 2 streamliner to a new 406.7 miles-per-hour land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats this week for the 2016 edition of Speed Week. Perhaps more significantly, Thompson—son of Mickey Thompson—broke his
NORWALK, OH — It’s a big world, but not even Earth offers many places for 500-miles-per-hour land speed racing. Outside of the famed Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, only south Australia’s Lake Gairdner and Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni provide sanctioned salt flats racing. That’s it. So what’s a guy with a 500-mph fighter jet-looking race car
For the second consecutive year, Bonneville Speed Week has been canceled. The SCTA (Southern California Timing Association) made the announcement today via social media, citing the lack of salt suitable for a safe race course. According to the statement, most of the salt flats are either wet or wet and muddy. You can read the
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