Bonneville Speed Week 2010 - Wednesday Bonus Gallery - Presented by Spectre Performance

Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Wednesday Bonus Gallery – Presented by Spectre Performance

Posted in Event Coverage August 20, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

We’ve got a great gallery from presenting sponsor Spectre Performance that focuses some of the sights and scenes of Bonneville away from the race course. In the quiet corners of the pits teams work away, hot rods sit caked with salt, and the real wrenching gets done.   Speed Week is drawing to a slow [...]

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Breaking News: Poteet and Main Speed Demon Sets 400mph Record at Bonneville!

Breaking News: Poteet and Main Speed Demon Sets 400mph Record at Bonneville!

Posted in Event Coverage August 19, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Minutes ago on the salt at the SCTA/BNI Bonneville Speed Week, George Poteet wheeled the Poteeteet and Main “Speed Demon” streamliner to a 400mph record! They made a qualifying pass of 409mph yesterday and followed it up with a 399mph shot today.  This gave them a two way average of 404mph and put them in [...]

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Bonneville Speedweek 2010 - Wednesday video, action, and pictures.

Bonneville Speedweek 2010 – Wednesday video, action, and pictures.

Posted in Event Coverage August 19, 2010  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

The crowds might be getting smaller, as the 2010 SCTA Bonneville Speedweek moves into the final few days, but the action is only getting hotter. Records have been set and reset, gauntlets have been thrown, engines have been swapped, and that was just Wednesday before lunch. The rest of Speedweek is shaping up to be [...]

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Bonneville Speedweek 2010 - Tuesday Afternoon Gallery and More!

Bonneville Speedweek 2010 – Tuesday Afternoon Gallery and More!

Posted in Event Coverage August 18, 2010  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

Today’s coverage of the SCTA’s 2010 Bonneville Speedweek started out with our own gallery along with coverage from our presenting sponsor Spectre Performance, but we promised you even more. Well here we are to deliver. We’ve got 85 more pictures of wreckage, racing, and impound where Speed Demon, the Coehn brothers, Hondata, and Mike Cook’s [...]

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Bonneville Speed Week 2010 - Tuesday Morning Gallery - Presented by Spectre Performance

Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Tuesday Morning Gallery – Presented by Spectre Performance

Posted in Event Coverage August 18, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

While our own Chad Reynolds is cranking out the photos and video, we have a secret weapon in our coverage arsenal: the guys and girls at Spectre Performance. They’re armed and dangerous with cameras as well and sent us an awesome dispatch of more than 100 killer photos to add to our bulging coverage of [...]

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BangShift Bonneville Video: In-Car With Lee Sicilio at Bonneville in His Hemi Daytona Clone at 230 MPH

BangShift Bonneville Video: In-Car With Lee Sicilio at Bonneville in His Hemi Daytona Clone at 230 MPH

Posted in Event Coverage August 18, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

First off we have to give props where they are due. Scott Clark (known as DieselGeek on the BangShift forums) gave us this awesome in-car footage of a 230 mph run in Lee Sicilio’s awesome Dodge Charger Daytona Clone and our own Chad did the edit job. If you’ve ever longed to hear a 498ci [...]

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Bonneville Speedweek 2010 Monday: Poteet and Main goes 417 MPH! Spectre goes 355!

Bonneville Speedweek 2010 Monday: Poteet and Main goes 417 MPH! Spectre goes 355!

Posted in Event Coverage August 17, 2010  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

Click here to access all the BangShift.com Photo Galleries and Videos from the entire 2010 Bonneville Speedweek  The SCTA/BNI Bonneville Speedweek 2010 is well into its fourth day and the drama is heating up! The Poteet and Main Speed Demon streamliner has run as fast as 417 and is currently in the lead for the [...]

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Update: Even More! Bonneville Speed Week 2010 - Monday - Presented by Spectre Performance

Update: Even More! Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Monday – Presented by Spectre Performance

Posted in Event Coverage August 17, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

    The boys and girls at Bonneville have stepped on it to start the meat of Speed Week. The Poteet and Main Speed Demon is current top speed holder with a 408mph trip down Broadway. The other highly notable record to fall was the AA/Production mark. It has stood for 16 years and was [...]

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Bonneville Video: Mechanical Music Off of the Push Truck

Bonneville Video: Mechanical Music Off of the Push Truck

Posted in Event Coverage August 17, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

While it is true that big speed is the main draw at Bonneville, gearheads the world over will agree that the sound of a hot rod at full tilt for miles on end is intoxicating. This video gives a great taste of the sounds to be heard at the salt.  This car gets pushed off [...]

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Boneville Speed Week 2010 - Sunday - Presented by Spectre Performance

Boneville Speed Week 2010 – Sunday – Presented by Spectre Performance

Posted in Event Coverage August 16, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

As we predicted, the crew at Spectre Performance rocketed into the record books on Sunday with a two run average of 324mph to shatter the existing A/BGS record by a large margin of nearly 50mph. The best news is that this is the “little” motor, they are going to try and bump this record even [...]

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Bonneville Speed Week 2010 - Saturday - Presented by Spectre Performance

Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Saturday – Presented by Spectre Performance

Posted in Event Coverage August 16, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

As day two of Bonneville Speed Week 2010 dawned, the Spectre Performance crew saw themselves in line as the first streamliner of the day. Driver and company owner Amir Rosenbaum needed to make a 300mph lap to qualify for his AA license and did with a loping 312mph pass. The team qualified for a new [...]

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Bonneville Speed Week 2010 - Friday - Presented by Spectre Performance

Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Friday – Presented by Spectre Performance

Posted in Event Coverage August 16, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Spectre Performance has stepped up huge to become the presenting sponsor of BangShift’s 2010 Bonneville Speed Week coverage. That means our own Chad Reynolds will be on the salt as of Sunday night and will be filing multiple daily dispatches from the crucible of speed. Spectre supplied us with photos from Friday on the salt [...]

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See All the BangShift.com Photos and Videos of 2010 Bonneville Speed Week Here

See All the BangShift.com Photos and Videos of 2010 Bonneville Speed Week Here

Posted in Event Coverage August 15, 2010  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

BangShift.com is all over the 2010 Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats. We are bringing you photo and video coverage all week long, so come back regularly for updates and results, as we’re posting them a few times a day. Here’s the wrapup of all the picture galleries and videos so far. SCROLL DOWN [...]

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Retro Galleries: BangShift's 2009 Bonneville Speed Week Coverage

Retro Galleries: BangShift’s 2009 Bonneville Speed Week Coverage

Posted in Event Coverage August 13, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

With BangShift’s Chad Reynolds hurtling east to attack the salt with wall to wall coverage courtesy of Spectre Performance this year, we thought we’d remind you of all the greatness that we posted from last year’s event. BangShift.com is definitely a supporter of land speed racing and there is no greater event or venue than [...]

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Event Coverage: The Loring Timing Association 2010 LSR Meet -- Saturday

Event Coverage: The Loring Timing Association 2010 LSR Meet — Saturday

Posted in Event Coverage August 1, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

The 2010 Loring Timing Association meet is in full swing with records falling and big speed numbers hitting the airwaves. There has been some carnage as well with several racers lunching motors and driveline parts in the quest for big speed on the long 1.5-mile course. We were on hand and blasted a load of [...]

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Loring Timing Association 2010 Meet -- Friday

Loring Timing Association 2010 Meet — Friday

Posted in Event Coverage July 31, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Well, a quiet Friday at Loring has come and gone. Tech inspection was completed, rookie orientation was done, and by all accounts we’re ready to haul some big ass on Saturday morning. We complied a small gallery of photos from Friday showing some pit action and tomfoolery from the day. We didn’t want to tip [...]

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