Category Archive: Event Coverage, LAND SPEED RACES
We Found The Fix For Speed Week’s Water Woes – Brilliant!
(Photos from SCTA Facebook Page) – So Chad and I are industrious fellows and we’ve been racking our brains for a quick and cheap fix for the current water situation on the Bonneville...
Bonneville Speed Week 2014 Coverage: Friday Nugget Car Show
(Photos by Chad and Brian) – Well even though the Great Salt Lake is actually a Great Lake Lake currently there’s still plenty of awesome hot rods and race cars here at Bonneville Speed...
Here’s All Of Our Bonneville Speed Week 2013 Photos From The Track, The Pits, And More.
(Editor’s note: To whet your whistle for what’s hopefully coming this weekend and into next week, we’re going to show you all of our 2013 photo coverage from Speed Week. All the...
Bonneville Speed Week 2014: Rains Soak Bonneville Salt Flats – Racing Start Delayed Until Sunday
Like the title says, this is not great news. Yesterday afternoon a heavy duty storm cell made its way across the expanse of the Bonneville Salt Flats and left it in the shining, shimmering, and wet...
In 1935 Ab Jenkins Went 68mph On An Allis Chalmers Tractor And In 2014 There’s a Modified 8N Showing Up To Blow That Away
The man you see hunkered over the steering wheel of that (literally) speeding Allis-Chalmers tractor is the legendary Ab Jenkins. In 1935 Jenkins drove that tractor to a terminal speed of just under...
Bonneville Speed Week 2014: This Is The Most Dominant Production Pickup Ever And It Is Going For A Clean Sweep Of The Record Book This Year
Other than the lowered stance and the air dam up front, that looks like a pretty typical 1988-1998 Chevy pickup, right? In some sense it is because SCTA rules for the Production Pickup class in which...
The Most Amazing Automotive Metal Working Project In America Is The Recreation Of An Ill-Fated 1939 Porsche Racer In A Old North Carolina VFW Hall
There are few things that impress us more than metal craftsmanship and we have never seen, nor will we probably ever see again (in person) the level of artistry and incredible talent that we saw this...
This Awesome Short Film On The Richmond and Stark Streamliner Will Totally Have You Pulling For These Guys
When I was putting together the story about the nine cars I think can better the existing wheel driven Bonneville speed record, I came across this short film about the Richmond and Stark streamliner....
Bonneville Speed Week 2014: Target 550 Streamliner To Miss Speed Week, Shooting For Late Season Meet
The Treit and Devenport Target 550 streamliner will not compete at Bonneville Speed Week 2014 after suffering mechanical problems at the USFRA test and tune meet a couple of weeks back and suffering...
Bonneville Speed Week 2014: Bonneville By The Numbers – Useful, Useless, Interesting, And Inane Stats For The Salt
With 100 years of racing history being celebrated on the Bonneville Salt Flats this August at SCTA Speed Week, I thought it would be interesting to delve into some of the stuff that can be gleaned...
STARTING TOMORROW: The Salt Flats Of Salduro – Our Incredible Series Documenting The First Racing At Bonneville, 100 Years Ago
Starting tomorrow, we’ll begin publishing the first installment of the longest, most involved, and most detailed series of stories we have ever run on BangShift. Penned by Bret Kepner and...
Bonneville Speed Week 2014 Coverage: The SCTA Course Condition Report From The Salt
If there is one single thing that every Bonneville racer is concerned about as we inch closer to Speed Week, it is the condition of the salt. The SCTA monitors the salt for months ahead of the event...
Experiments in Speed:Tom Donhou Builds LSR Bike And Rides At Amazing Speed
This is one of the best videos I have ever posted and it is about a bicycle. In fact calling this magnificent study in simplicity and mechanical beauty a bicycle is a crying shame, but that’s...
Ride Along With Jerry Hoffmann On A 202mph Pass! He Earns A Spot In The ECTA 200mph Club On This Run
I have become seriously enamored with the world of land speed racing over the last few years and the reasons are many. The racers I have interacted have been amazing people, the cars and motorcycles...