![]() You may be wondering why the races are in August, since it’s still pretty darn hot in the desert at that time of year? Part of the reason is to do with the flats themselves. ![]() I-80 is an amazing stretch of road, running a full 50 miles across the Great Salt Lake Desert without so much as a tiny curve. The Bonneville Speedway is easy to find and get to, since it’s just off of Interstate 80 that runs across Utah. Ab Jenkins is testing the new, 1932 Pierce Arrow 462 cubic inch V-12 in a 24-hour endurance run. Video description from YouTube: Thanks to PackardGuy – This was filmed in September, 1932 at the Bonneville Salt Flats. ![]() But after that, its popularity flew, along with the many different ways the daring set out to make and break records. The Bonneville Speedway, though, as a section of the flats near Wendover, Utah, came to be known, didn’t really get started until the 1930s. Teddy Tetzlaff made the first official speed run on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1914, setting a speed of 142.8 mph. The first motorized vehicle daredevil sped over the flats on a motorcycle in 1913. The year before, the Western Pacific Railroad, had managed to lay down tracks over the hard surface of the salt flats. Nearly 110 years ago, Bill Rishel and two of his business partners drove a Pierce-Arrow across the salt in 1907. Stock photo.īut speed runs at the Bonneville Salt Flats started long before the muscle cars of the ’60s and early 70s. Superbikes during Speed Week at Bonneville.
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