Do not drive on the salt flats when they are wet or flooded from precipitation. “The public is welcome to drive their vehicles on the Bonneville Salt Flats when the salt is dry and hardened. August 1957: Stirling Moss breaking 5-speed records in the BMC MGX – 181, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. When it comes to the Average Joe who’s looking to fill the need for speed on the seemingly endless dried-up sea, the Bureau advises an “abundance of caution” for drivers on the Salt Flats. ‘Ocean in the desert’ brings tropical fish, international scuba divers to Utah “We probably have the most stringent safety rules are as stringent as anybody in the automotive or motor racing field where our roll cages are second to none and fire systems and seatbelts and all that kind of stuff,” McDowell assures. The vehicles themselves are also observed and noted to be as safe as possible while going as fast as possible when the pedal hits the floormats. As such, when the 3,000-horsepower vehicles are on the salt for a Southern California Timing Association event, a team of emergency responders is on hand, complete with an ambulance, a large-scale fire extinguishing apparatus, and an extrication team. Of course, at breakneck speeds, accidents can and do happen. McDowell’s group, which has been around since 1937, has been there at every turn of the tires, keeping account of records at increments of engine types from small motorcycles to world-class hot rods.
According to the Bureau of Land Management, the land speed barriers at 300, 400, 500, and 600 miles per hour were broken at the Flats. Some of those privately funded garage-born contraptions have gone down as record breakers for land speed.
“We have stuff that runs engines with 3,000 horsepower and even though we have a complete absence of corporate America, there’s still big-dollar resumes out there, they’re just privately funded, privately built.” “We’re amateurs and we prove it every day,” he laughs before clarifying himself. That thing in front of the aquarium in Draper? It toured around the world with U2
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