![]() ![]() Then, days before before Speed Week was scheduled to begin, monsoon rains pounded the salt from above, dissolving newly formed crystals. That curveball was the high water levels in 2019, which increased the aquifer height beneath the salt flats. You can see what it’s doing,” said Lattin, early on Monday morning, evaluating conditions, “Long as mother nature doesn’t throw you a curveball.” The four-mile-long race track stretched toward the horizon like white arctic tundra, but the temperature on the salt was 80-degrees at 9:00 a.m.Ĭredit Erik Neumann / KUER Speed Week race director and President of the Southern California Timing Association Bill Lattin managed the 2019 race.įor three mornings in a row race director Bill Lattin drove the track only to cancel the race because the usually hard surface wasn’t dry enough for racers to use at all. But wet weather and fragile conditions on the salt early in the week caused doubts about whether the world-famous land speed race would happen at all. Motorists hoped to set land speed records in a host of categories, up to the top recorded speed of 500 miles per hour. The annual gathering of hotrods and motorcycles at the Bonneville Salt Flats known as “Speed Week” ended on Friday. Others came from Italy and Eastern Europe to ride tuned up sport bikes. “We’re hoping for maybe 250 today,” he said. “I got three records I set in this car last year,” said Paul Parenica who came from Oklahoma City to drive his 1976 Chevy Monza.ĭan Tackett brought his 1954 Corvette, “Silver Bullet,” from Gulfport, Mississippi. ![]() Engines roared as they waited in line for what they hoped would be a record-setting run. ![]() At the starting line at the Bonneville Speedway, drivers were being strapped into sleek, bullet-shaped machines and souped-up classic cars. ![]()
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