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Denise Mueller-Korenek shattered a world record that had stood since 1995, riding her custom pedal-bike across the salt flats at an average speed of 183.932 miles per hour. Explaining it is futile. Just watch the video above. Editor’s Note: Herbert James “Burt” Munro’s 1967 land-speed record was on an under 1,000cc motorcycle. A ...
Bonneville Speedway (also known as the Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track) is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats northeast of Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports. It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed records.
Check out this beginner's guide to outright land speed records and one of the places they're synonymous with: Utah's famed Bonneville Salt Flats.
Land Speed Records At The Bonneville Salt Flats. Land speed records generally bring to mind the streamliners as the scream across the Bonneville Salt Flats at speeds of over 750 miles per hour, but there’s actually more to setting land speed records than just the streamliners.
The big picture: Tetzlaff's record put the Bonneville Salt Flats on the map as auto racing became the world's newest thrill. Scores of land speed records have since been set on the dry, flat salt crust left by the prehistoric Lake Bonneville (now the Great Salt Lake).
After Utah local Ab Jenkins set a new endurance record by driving a Pierce-Arrow in a continuous 10-mile loop for 24 hours at an average speed of 112.9 miles per hour, the flats became...
The good news: veteran Bonneville racer George Poteet set a new record for fastest piston-powered, wheel-driven land speed racing in his single-engine BFS (blown fuel streamliner) Speed Demon with...
The jet-powered 'Spirit of America,' with Craig Breedlove at the wheel, on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The three-wheeled racer was powered by a J47 engine — the same type used in an F104 jet fighter plane. ... The land speed record has been increased four times since, returning to British hands in 1983. The current record was set by the car ...
Land speed records and Land speed racing records have been set many times on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The record for wheel-driven vehicles (449 MPH) was set there in 2018, and for rocket or jet propelled vehicles (630 MPH; since superseded) in 1970.
The site of Bonneville Speedway, the extremely level, smooth flats are as solid as concrete by the summer’s end and are ideally suited for speed trials; several world automobile and motorcycle speed and endurance records have been established there since 1935.