Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, LAND SPEED RACES, Land Speed Races
Loring Timing Association 2010 Meet — Friday
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...
Barnstormin’: Heading to Loring, Lobster, Hot Rods, and Maine State Troopers
Well, we’ve arrived at Loring, Maine. We’ve sipped our first beers, ate a bunch of lobster, oogled a trio of cool hot rods, and skirted a huge speeding ticket due to the good graces of a...
Retro Gallery: The 2009 Loring Timing Association Land Speed Meet
We’re counting down the minutes before we get to turn our faithful Ford truck north and haul ass for about eight hours to reach Limestone, Maine. That’s where the action will be this...
George Poteet’s Blowfish Sets 291-MPH Record at World of Speed 2009
George Poteet, in the Blowfish Plymouth Barracuda built by Rad Rides by Troy a few years ago, finally set a big record at last week’s World of Speed at Bonneville, an event by the Utah Slat...
2009 Bonneville Speed Week: It’s a Wrap
As the sun rose on the 7th day of racing at Speed Week 2009, hopes were high among teams, spectators, and SCTA officials alike that we would see a 400-mph measured mile from the Speed Demon...
Event Coverage: Thursday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week
There is only one day left at the SCTA/BNI Speed Week 2009, and although the number of cars is dwindling, the racing is just as fierce. We saw the Team Nish AA/Fuel Streamliner throw a rod out of the...
Video: We Interview George Poteet after he runs 401 MPH at Bonneville
BangShift.com man on the scene Chad Reynolds was at the 7 mile marker on Bonneville’s famed speedway, when George Poteet took the Speed Demon D/Fuel Streamliner through the 5-mile at an average...
Breaking News: Speed Demon Runs 401-MPH Exit Speed, Nish Streamliner Breaks
For the past few days we’ve been following the chase for top time of the meet at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week. It started with three streamliners, then fell to two shooting for the highest...
Event Coverage: Wednesday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week, Including a 262-MPH Truck!
OK, you readers, I admit I am totally wiped right now. While the cool guys are out at the 200 MPH Club banquet tonight, I’m still pounding out all the coverage I can on the 2009 Bonneville...
Team Nish Still in the Hunt for Top Speed at 2009 Speed Week
The 2009 SCTA/BNI Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats is slowly drawing to a close as teams set records, blow up, or just plain fail. Meanwhile, the fastest cars of Bonneville are still in a...
Video: Take a ride in a 235-MPH Corvette
Ed and Linda Van Scoy have been racing their C4 Corvette at Bonneville for 15 years. It has gotten Ed into the Bonneville 200-MPH Club, and has held several records. All of that experience clearly...
Video: Gary Hart’s 248-mph Studebaker Blows a Turbo at Speed
Blowing up a turbo isn’t good. It’s really not good at over 200 mph. Running a car at Bonneville Speedway is a lot like putting your engine through a 2 minute dyno pull, which means you...
Event Coverage: Tuesday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week
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...