Bonneville: The Final Frontier

Why You Just Have to Go to Bonneville

If you’ve never been…quit your job, get a divorce, sell your dog. Sell your dog? Well, do whatever it takes, because you just gotta go and experience Bonneville at least once. There are no payouts, no big sponsors, just a bunch of old-school racers trying to go fast on the salt flats of Bonneville. And it’s not easy racing these days—it’s hard to set a record. The speeds are huge and it would take a lot of work and some dumb luck to beat some of them. But this doesn’t seem to matter to the competitors—they just build their cars and give it a shot.

A Banner Year on the Salt

2004 was a banner year for Bonneville. The salt was good, and the long course was 7 miles. There were 442 entries: 328 cars and 114 bikes, including 68 class changes. There were 156 records set: 89 cars and 67 bikes.

The Spirit of Bonneville

Bonneville is that final frontier, a place where a man or a woman with a better idea isn’t punished with a bunch of extra weight or politically ruled out of racing. It’s a place where a person with a better idea gets in the record book until someone with a better idea takes it away. It’s that simple, and it’s speed racing at its purest. You need to be there, so check it out.