Event Coverage: Tuesday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed WeekBy Chad Posted 08/11/09
It was another long day for BangShift.com at the 2009 SCTA/BNI Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats, as we tore all over the Salt to bring you a photo gallery of all the action from Tuesday.
The big news from today is the battle between two streamliners vying for the top time of the meet and the Hot Rod Magazine trophy. It was very tight between Spirit of Rett and Speed Demon, both running 369 mph until this afternoon when George Poteet in Speed Demon ran 387 mph. Read more about that here.
Also, two of our friends lost records today. David Freiburger's AA/Classic Fuel Altered record of 252 was upped to 255 mph by Gary Spencer (seen in the small photo at the upper left), and Tonya Turk's Modified Sports record fell to a new 245 run by Mike Cook.
The Studebaker of Gary Hart that we have followed, and that is tuned by BangShift.com forum member Dieselgeek, had a bad day, as Gary failed to make his record return run this morning when he fragged one of the Ford Powerstroke turbos on his big Chevy. We'll have video of that soon. UPDATE: See the video of the turbo blowing up here.
In fact, we're working on several new videos from today, so stay tuned. Meanwhile, click on the Tuesday photo gallery, or see this past coverage from Speed Week:
Photo Galleries by Scott Clark
Video: In-car camera of a 218-mph pass
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Written by rightpedal
Aug 12 2009
Chad
I have bin getting up early just to read the new post. You are doing a great job. I cant even remember to take out the camera let alone write a blog, some commentary, and another blog. Keep tellin the story and thanks.
Steve
Written by BangShift Forum Admin Aug 11 2009
http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Event-Coverage-Tuesday-at-the-2009-Bonneville-Speed-Week.html
Outstanding performance by Poteet & Main - way to go, guys!