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Land Speed Gallery: Chasing The Horizon At The SCTA El Mirage Meet


Land Speed Gallery: Chasing The Horizon At The SCTA El Mirage Meet

(Photos: Zane McNary) Out of all of the land speed racing events and locations available, I’ve only seen two: Wilmington earlier this year, where I ran our project Chrysler 300C, and Bonneville in 2009, when I drove in to see the event but due to situations out of my control, never got to see one car run in anger. That didn’t matter to me though, because it was the striking beauty of the Bonneville Salt Flats that caught me off guard, and the same beauty is visible at El Mirage: there is literally nothing but the cars and racers visible for miles around. The openness of the lakebed is staggering, but that is what makes El Mirage such a great location for burying your foot to the floor as you reach for the record books.


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