The Mecca for Speed Freaks

So the journey to Moab from Portland continued from Frenchglen down into Nevada and along the most boring 400 miles of freeway you can possibly imagine. No photos of that my friends.

At the end of that nightmare, however, you end up in Mecca – The Bonneville Speedway – place of legend from Sir Donald Campbell (Bluebird 1935 at 301mph) to Andy Green (ThrustSSC 1997 at 763mph) Sorry to only mention the notable British attempts but they do seem to bookend several eras of racing here. If you have seen Anthony Hopkins in The World’s Fastest Indian, this is where Bert Munro set the 1000cc motorbike speed record in 1969 of 183mph that still stands.

Anyway, we were not allowed to go chasing along the salt because the track was “active” so we settled for a couple of photo ops attached.