Mike S
Senior Curmudgeon
So my buddy Steve asks if I want to go to Bonneville and see the racing??
You mean Bonneville salt flats, where the worlds fastest vehicles gather for Speed Week each year?? That Bonneville??? Wendover Utah???
Sure, why not???
Only take a couple of hours in the -10, his brother will meet us at the airport and we all go over to the salt flats.
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Here we are loading up, enough clothes for an overnighter, a box full of snacks for the flight, and 3 coolers full of frozen water bottles.
We cruised at 11.5 alt. burning 12.6, 200mph
We flew over the race area before landing, I was totally un-prepared for the sheer amount of vehicles/people/activity there was-------and this is only a fraction of what was there.
At Bonneville you will see everything from the weird to the weirder. Dozens of classes allow just about anything you can think of to run-------there was a ?Whizzer? motorized bicycle, hoped to see 35 MPH or so, and a turbocharged nitro burning ?Hayabusa? looking to see 240--------in a street legal bike
?Rat Rods? are getting to be a big thing on the street, out here they are a staple.
This car set a record last year with a GM EcoTech motor for power, this year it is back with a Mopar under the hood. Looking for speed in excess of 320, (which they saw with the EcoTech). ----------1200 HP, four cylinders.
Unfortunately, the wind came up, the rain was coming, and racing was canceled for the day, so we headed off to the airport for the flight home.
What a great way to spend a Sunday.
Thanks to Vans for the ability to make this happen.
Time to head off to the barn-----------------
You mean Bonneville salt flats, where the worlds fastest vehicles gather for Speed Week each year?? That Bonneville??? Wendover Utah???
Sure, why not???
Only take a couple of hours in the -10, his brother will meet us at the airport and we all go over to the salt flats.
Here we are loading up, enough clothes for an overnighter, a box full of snacks for the flight, and 3 coolers full of frozen water bottles.
We cruised at 11.5 alt. burning 12.6, 200mph
We flew over the race area before landing, I was totally un-prepared for the sheer amount of vehicles/people/activity there was-------and this is only a fraction of what was there.
At Bonneville you will see everything from the weird to the weirder. Dozens of classes allow just about anything you can think of to run-------there was a ?Whizzer? motorized bicycle, hoped to see 35 MPH or so, and a turbocharged nitro burning ?Hayabusa? looking to see 240--------in a street legal bike
?Rat Rods? are getting to be a big thing on the street, out here they are a staple.
This car set a record last year with a GM EcoTech motor for power, this year it is back with a Mopar under the hood. Looking for speed in excess of 320, (which they saw with the EcoTech). ----------1200 HP, four cylinders.
Unfortunately, the wind came up, the rain was coming, and racing was canceled for the day, so we headed off to the airport for the flight home.
What a great way to spend a Sunday.
Thanks to Vans for the ability to make this happen.
Time to head off to the barn-----------------
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