Bonneville Speed Week

AC Bill

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Organized by the Southern California Timing Association and the Bonneville Nationals Inc., this six-day event begins this Saturday, (Aug 7th) and ends the following Friday. The event is free for spectators to attend, and you can walk through the pits, checking out the variety of racing classes, and interact with drivers, and crews, between racing heats.
A great chance to take photo's, so bring a camera. You might capture a world record holder, and your photo could be famous, even fifty years from now. That's how long it's been since the World record for fastest land vehicle was captured, when Gary Gabelich, piloting his rocket-propelled Blue Flame, to 622.407 miles per hour. Several photo's from that record setting day, are now famous.
Maybe the new World record for the fastest pedal bike will be broken. Currently it is 183.932 mph, set in 2018, by Denise Mueller-Korenek, who broke the previous pedal bike record last set in 1995. You wonder how she did that speed on a pedal bike? Here's a link to a video..

It would be pretty cool to tell your grandkids, that you were there the day, a new world record was set, regardless of the class of vehicle.
Being crazy about Cobras, I would have loved to have been there back in November 1965, when Craig Breedlove set 23 individual speed records, over four days, behind the wheel of the now infamous 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe CSX2287.

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