Now in its 61st year, Bonneville Speed Week has a mix of high-tech race cars and modified 1930s and ’40s hot rods. Thousands of spectators dust off their best street rods to cruise alongside the seven-mile course on a dry salt bed. All 48 square miles of it.
Flat out, the fastest cars cover a mile every ten seconds! Crashes are thankfully few and far between but at such high speeds the consequences are grave; this year streamliner driver Barry Bryant, 46, was tragically killed when he lost control at 200mph. And Arizona's Jim Kirk also lost control, spinning his 4-litre Chevy V8 (pic 5) at near to 200mph.
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