Bonneville Speedway is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats northeast of Wendover, Utah in the United States, that is marked out for motor sports. It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous la
Phoenix diesel truck running at Bonneville, August 2003
Memorial for the ghost town of Salduro, Utah, near the Bonneville speedway. A rest area on Interstate 80 was built on the former settlement, and a plaque there commemorates the land speed records.
BLM interpretive sign at the Bonneville Salt Flats Rest Area on westbound Interstate 80, September 2015
Gabelich's Blue Flame, December 2004
Blue Flame is a rocket-powered land speed racing vehicle that was driven by Gary Gabelich and achieved a world land speed record on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on October 23, 1970. The vehicle set t
Bonneville Speedway
…John Cobb's 1947 one-way Land speed record of 403 miles per hour (649 km/h). Other notable examples of Bonneville speed records include: Gabelich's Blue Flame, December 2004 Dick Beith's Pepco Supercharged VW Lakester, August 1963 Year Driver Vehicle Speed mph Speed km/h Class (category) Notes 1935 Sir Malcolm…
Blue Flame on display in Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, Germany