While the Cee-Gar team held on to its record for quite some time, the fight for the fastest motorcycle land speed kept going. In 1962, aircraft mechanic Joe Dudek decided to implement space travel ...

The last outright record set at Bonneville was in 1970, when Gary Gabelich, driving a rocket-powered vehicle called the "Blue Flame," became the first person to exceed the 600-mph mark (at 630.478 ...

The Bonneville Salt Flats covers some 30,000 acres on the western edge of the Great Salt Lake basin in Utah. The 12-mile-long by 5-mile-wide (about 46 square miles) expanse consists of a salt ...

He set a speed record at the salt flats in 1967 on a motorcycle he built. Speed Week is the biggest of several racing events held annually at the Bonneville Salt Flats, a remnant of the ancient Lake ...