Bonneville Salt Flats

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Situated within the Great Salt Lake Desert, the Bonneville Salt Flats are both a geographic and land-speed marvel. There, a crusty yet perfectly flat strip measuring nine miles long by just 80 feet wide was once formed 50,000 years ago when a 45,000-square-mile sea receded in what is now western Utah. Since 1909, Bonneville has hosted hundreds of races and speed trials featuring scores of outstanding cars, motorcycles, and drivers.

This photo history features the entire marques, both automotive and motorcycle, that experience campaigned the Bonneville Salt Flats during the last nine decades. Represented are the four general racing categories associated with the venue–special construction, vintage, modified, and production–with special emphasis at the postwar years from 1950 during the 1970s, and such legendary drivers as Craig “Land Speed” Breedlove and Gary Gabelich, the latter of whom gained fame by driving the rocket-shaped, hydrogen-powered Blue Flame to a land-speed record of 622 miles per hour in 1970–someday before a storm dropped five inches of snow at the Bonneville course.

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