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15 unusual facts about Bonneville salt flats


Brandon Nozaki Miller

As part of his progress and to challenge the stigma surrounding electrics when he first came into the sport, he made a point to show that production electrics were ready for everyone be they racers or not by competing in events like Pikes Peak, TTXGP, Mike Cooks Bonneville Landspeed shootout, and even competed in M1GP which held the first US electric only club racing series.

Budweiser Rocket

The first run of the car at Bonneville Salt Flats showed that the propulsion system was unable to develop enough power to sustain a speed high enough to establish a new official World Land Speed Record.

Eva Håkansson

Such records, for a variety of high-speed vehicles, are often achieved at the Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah.

Fred Rompelberg

On 3 October 1995 he cycled behind a motor dragster on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, with a speed of 268.831 kilometers an hour (167.044 mph).

Intrepid Potash

This plant siphons off brine from the nearby Bonneville Salt Flats during the winter when the bed is covered in brine.

Mr Whoppit

Whoppit was with Campbell during his serious crash during a land-speed record attempt at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1960, driving the Proteus Bluebird.

Myron Cottrell

In 2006 the car received an appreciative mention from Car Craft Magazine after appearing at the Car Craft Summer Nationals auto show, and in 2006 it was run at Bonneville Speedway on the Bonneville Salt Flats and achieved a best official speed of 198.155 miles per hour.

Norman H. Bangerter

During his tenure as governor, Bangerter dealt with the flooding of the Great Salt Lake and its tributaries by approving the construction of large, US$60 million pumps to channel excess water from the Great Salt Lake onto the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Packard V-1650

Also many of these engines and other aircraft surplus engines where heavily used even to this day in Drag Racing as well as Land Speed Racing at places like the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Peckhammer TV

Peckhammer interviewed, in Bonneville: Passion, Endurance and Teamwork, Paul and Barbara Friebus regarding their motorcycle performances at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Pontiac Bonneville

The name was taken from the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, the site of much early auto racing and most of the world's land speed record runs, which was named in turn after U.S. Army officer Benjamin Bonneville.

Pontiac Club de Mer

The brainchild of GM engineer-designer, Harley Earl (Paul Gillian was also involved being the Pontiac Studio head at the time), the "de Mer" was a two door sport Roadster that incorporated innovative breakthrough styling like a sleek, low-profile body encasing a large powerplant, a design trend used widely in LSR (land speed record) trials at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah during the 1950s.

Porsche 928

On September 15, 2011 at the Bonneville Salt Flats, racing driver and owner of 928 Motorsports, LLC.

Renault Étoile Filante

In 1956, Jean Hébert and a Renault Team went off to Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.

Saturn Ion

On October 17, 2003 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, the Saturn Ion Red Line, piloted by the GM Performance Division's "Saturn Land Speed Record Project" set a new land-speed record in the "G/Blown Fuel Altered" Class at 212.684 mph.


August Duesenberg

Ab Jenkins set a 24-hour speed record of 135.47 miles an hour in a Duesenberg on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1935.

Center for Land Use Interpretation

Other locations of the CLUI include the Desert Research Station near Hinkley, California in the Mojave desert, the exhibit halls and artists residency program at Wendover, Utah near the Bonneville Salt Flats, and in Troy, New York along the Hudson river.

George Eyston

In 1935, he was one of the first British racers to travel to the Bonneville salt flats of Utah, with his 24 & 48 hour record-setting car Speed of the Wind.

Southern California Timing Association

Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) is a competition sanctioning body that maintains rules and record for Land Speed Racing events held at El Mirage Dry Lake, California and at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.

World's Fastest Pickup

In 2002, a 5.9 L Cummins diesel-powered pickup, modified by Gale Banks and his company Gale banks engineering set an FIA-certified land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats with a one-way pass of 222-mph and a combined two-way speed of 217-mph.