Category Archive: LAND SPEED RACES
Bonneville Speed Week 2016: The Most Impressive Runs Of The Week May Come Not From A Streamliner But From This (Potentially) 400mph Triumph GT-6
(Photos: BlackSaltRacing.com) Yeah, you read that right. The car you see up there in the lead photo began life as a 1971 Triumph GT-6. It has since been transformed into a hellaciously fast land...
Bonneville Speed Week 2016: 11 Cars Capable Of Smashing The Wheel Driven Record – Here They Are
There are a ton of reasons to be excited about speed week 2016. The fact that it looks like there will be a Speed Week is the first of those reasons and the second? The second is the pent up...
Got Salt Fever? With A 2016 Event Looking Likely, We Dug Up A Gallery From McTaggart’s First Trip To Bonneville!
For the last couple of years, anyone talking about Bonneville has spoken of the salt with a tinge of either sadness or anger in their voice. For two years now, there has been no racing on the salt...
More Photos From The SCTA El Mirage Meet: Flat-Out On The Lakebed To End The Year!
(Photos: Zane McNary) Nothing quite killed the LSR buzz like having Bonneville shut down for the second year running, but at least there are locations like El Mirage to make up for the loss. With six...
Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: Wendover Airfield
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Now that your eyes are bugging out of your head since you just saw the title, this item first ran on January 20, 2009 when we were known as Freiburger’s Junkyard and...
Photos: 16 Cool Engines From Bonneville
While lots of people are seduced by the amazing bodies and incredible chassis fabrication at Bonneville, I am a knuckle dragging horsepower loving kind of dude, so motors are my obsession. There are...
El Mirage Coverage – Great Images From The Final Meet Of The 2014 SCTA Racing Season
(PHOTOS BY TEACH) – When I got a note from pal o’ BangShift Teach telling me that he had some cool photos from the final meet of the SCTA season at El Mirage dry lake bed I got all...
Ohio Mile Land Speed Action Gallery: Our Last Blast Of Images From The September Meet
(Photos by David Whelon) – Well we have reached the end of David Whealon’s awesome photos from the 2014 Ohio Mile/ECTA September meet. These photos are different than the ones we showed...
Ohio Mile Land Speed Action Gallery: Photos From A Diverse And Fun September Meet
(Photos by David Whealon/DW Motorsports Photography) – We’re back with more great photos from the Ohio Mile/ECTA land speed meet which took place a couple of weekends back in Wilmington,...
ECTA Ohio Mile Coverage: Our Second Blast Of Photos From The Final Meet Of The 2014 Season
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – So here is the 2nd gallery from the ECTA fall meet out in Wilmington at the air park. This gallery will show tons of cool iron and the diversity of stuff...
Action Gallery and Race Report: ECTA September 2014 – Steam Motorcycles, NASCAR Legends, Big Speeds and Big Fun!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Oh my….what an event!!! Records seemed to be falling like raindrops on this nearly-perfect fall day. We showed up a bit late after working a couple...
CLICK HERE To Listen To The LIVE Audiocast Of The ECTA Land Speed Racing Meet — Steam Motorcycles, 240mph Bikes, NASCAR Legends, More
Thanks to LandRacing.com and the hard work of Gregg Adams, you can tune in today to listen to the audiocast of the ECTA Ohio Mile land speed racing meet LIVE and FREE! Yesterday was one of the best...
SCTA World Finals Cancelled Due To Wet Conditions On Bonneville Salt Flats
Our last flicker of hope at seeing some great racing on the salt this year has been extinguished with the announcement that the SCTA World Finals have been cancelled due to wet conditions on the...
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...