SCTA cancels 2014 Bonneville Speed Week
Danny Thompson with Challenger II at Bonneville, August 2014. Photo by Holly Martin/Peter Vincent, courtesy Thompson LSR. As any Bonneville Salt Flats racer can attest, building a car fast enough to...
View ArticleDanny Thompson and Challenger II to run for record at rescheduled Bonneville...
Danny Thompson and the Challenger II. Photo courtesy Thompson LSR. The 2014 Bonneville Speed Week, commemorating a century of racing on the salt, was supposed to take place from August 9-15, but...
View ArticleBonneville: A Century of Speed
As we’ve discussed here before, the broad expanse of salt that makes Bonneville so unique is disappearing, and with it the black line that once seemed to stretch out to infinity, to this point a...
View ArticleUnsalted: Bonneville Speed Week canceled for second year straight
Photos by the author. The day when we will no longer see sanctioned racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats may soon be at hand after the Southern California Timing Association decided on Monday to cancel...
View ArticleMojave Mile to host Bonneville racers after Speed Week cancellation
Image courtesy Google Maps. With hundreds of participants left hanging after the cancellation of this year’s Bonneville Speed Week, organizers of the event managed to secure another location for the...
View ArticleA Gathering of the Hopeful: Bonneville Speed Week 2015
Based 2,300 miles away in Greenfield Center, New York, the guys from Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop feel strongly enough about Bonneville’s importance that they once again drove their creations...
View ArticleBonneville Speed Week cancellation spurs proposals for salt flats replenishment
Photos by the author. With the annual Bonneville Speed Week cancelled for the second year in a row—and with other racing events at the Bonneville Salt Flats already nixed or in jeopardy of not taking...
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