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Bonneville Speed Week 2020: From The Starting Line, Into Automotive Zen
It’s almost akin to being a fighter pilot, in a way. You check your safety gear before you even sit down into the seat. You have the protective garments on. The helmet is securely fastened....
Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Engines Galore! Some Of The Mills From The Salt!
Bonneville is a place steeped in tradition. For every late-model item filled to the brim with the best and most modern, there’s a Ford Model A rocking a Cadillac mill in the engine bay. For...
Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Night Two At The Nugget’s Parking Lot
Being on the salt all day is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you’re on the freaking salt, man! How can life suck when you’re surrounded by fast machines, gearheads, and one of the...
Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Take A Walk Through The Pits!
Blue sky and the white salt crust combine to make one of the most alien views you’ve ever seen. If you have never been to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, it had better be engraved on your...
Our Bonneville Speed Week 2020 Photos Start Right Here! Pit Photos Of Cars Getting Ready For Tomorrow’s Racing!
It’s Bonneville Speed Week 2020 people!!! As usual, there are folks saying the salt sucks, folks saying the salt is great, and somewhere in the middle is probably the truth, but we’ll...
Shock and Awe: How A Borrowed Yenko Camaro Became A Record Run At The Firecracker Mile
Borrowing the car…if that isn’t a phrase that will make a gearhead nervous, I don’t know what one is. We tend to view our four-wheeled contraptions as an extension of ourselves, our wards, the...
2020 ECTA Firecracker Mile: The Winners Of The Street Car Shootout And The Achievers Of The Meet!
Okay…I’ve had time to decompress from my weekend in Arkansas, which came right after my week and a half on the road prior to. I’ve been in touch with Steve and CJ, made sure the...
2020 ECTA Firecracker Mile Gallery: More Straight-Line Action From The Airstrip
Friday’s action at the 2020 ECTA Firecracker Mile might have gone on longer than I planned, but two things conspired to make it a short day: one was a thunderstorm that was going to converge on...
2020 ECTA Firecracker Mile Gallery: The Opening Roar At Arkansas
As I made the left turn off of Arkansas 181 and onto Memorial Drive, I immediately had a strange sense of familiarity that took me a minute to figure out. The building designs were very familiar. The...
FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: ECTA Spaceport America 1.5 Mile Invitational Shootout Continues This Morning!
When Steve and Suzy and the gang from the ECTA called me and asked if I wanted to help out at the ECTA Spaceport America 1.5 Mile Shootout, I said “Sure, how can I help?”. When they said...
More Bonneville Speed Week 2019 Photos For You To Check Out! Man The Machines On The Salt Are Awesome.
We told you we weren’t done yet, and this is one of our last few galleries of photos from the 2019 Bonneville Speed Week races. Bonneville is a very special place to us. I’ve raced there,...
More Photos From Bonneville Speed Week 2019: We’ve Still Got Hundreds More Photos To Share
Bonneville is a very special place. It is historic, it is beautiful, it is a natural wonder. And it is the home of horsepower in so many ways. We told you we’d have more photos coming and we...
The Bikes Of Bonneville: Nothing But Motorcycles From Bonneville Speed Week 2019
There are a ton of different cars, trucks, lakesters, streamliners and roadsters at Bonneville for Speed Week each year. We’re talking about variety like you have never seen. But two and three...
