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This defining feature — approximately 90% of which is common table salt — is the reason why the Bonneville Speedway is home to so many top speed records.
Bonneville Speedway is legendary for petrolheads and fans of top speed records. But where is it, and why is it so great for chasing land speed records?
BILLINGS — Billings native and land speed record holder Cliff Gullett died Wednesday in a 200-mph motorcycle crash on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
Campbell would later go on to become the first person to break the 300-mph barrier in a car at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1935.
Named after the Bonneville Salt Flats, the badge was first used in 1954 on a Corvette-based show car. It became a stand-alone model in 1959 and Pontiac's range-topping full-size car in 1959.
He had already set - and lost - the world land-speed record several times before, but in front of the world's media, he looked to smash through a target which nobody was sure was possible. But it was.
U.S. climber Emma Hunt sets a Pan‑American speed climbing record with 6.25 seconds, just ahead of the sport’s spotlight at the 2028 LA Olympics.
Daytona's Motorsports Hall of Fame of America is the most diverse hall in the land. Where else will you find Amelia Earhart and Dale Earnhardt?
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