The first racing may have taken place as early as 1914. Ab Jenkins set records on the flats in the 1930s in a car called The Mormon Meteor.Successive racers came over the decades and set their own ...

The Bonneville Salt Flats is a completely flat field of salt over 30,000 acres, definitely unlike any track you've ever seen. Passing Salt Lake City and then the Great Salt Lake, ...

The flooded Bonneville Salt Flats are seen from Chopper 5 Tuesday. A geologist who has studied the area for six years says this is the wettest he's ever seen it.

The salt flats have also thinned by about a third over the last 60 years. Scientists believe its decline could be drought-related, due to industrial and human activity, nature’s natural course ...

Here's a photo tour of Utah's famous salt flats, with the vehicles and drivers that made history there. The Blitzen Benz in August 1914, when it set a new record for speed at the Bonneville Salt ...

Meeting the drivers racing across the salt flats at Bonneville Speed Week. Featuring: Stacie B London, Ali and JD Youngblood, Mixed Nuts Racing, John Stoner, Jim Mosher and Mitsuhiro Kiyonaga.

A Utah family took their Tesla onto the Bonneville Salt Flats and wrecked it at more than 100 mph, police said. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 68°F. Saturday, June 7th 2025 ...

The famed Bonneville Salt Flats are deteriorating an an accelerating pace, which has led preservationists to find solutions to save the famous high speed racing venue.

The Bonneville Salt Flats are one of Utah’s most iconic destinations. They may sit in a remote portion of western Utah, but people across the world know about t ...

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A work cuts salt bricks from Uyuni - the largest salt flats in the world, at the state-run Lithium Pilot Plant in Rio Grande, Bolivia, Oct. 29, 2009. Aizar Raldes/AFP/Getty Images, FILE.

Bonneville Salt Flats hasn't seen any absolute land speed records set for a while now, but in August 2018, Danny Thompson scored a new record for wheel-driven cars in a refurbished version of the ...