Take That Gaia: Bonneville Speed Week in photos
TO the Bonneville Speed Week, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA. This is the annual event that sees hundreds of car builders and drivers gather on the salt flats to try and break land speed records in various different categories of vehicle. This is a hark back to the halcyon days of what Iowahawk calls “the global warming era“. This is salt and nitro. “Take that, Gaia!” (Photos with added Shelby and Donald Campbell.)
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Speed Ace Donald Campbell, 41, settles into the cockpit of his rebuilt Bluebird, the car in which he plans to make an attempt on the world land speed record on Lake Eyre Southern Australia in Spring 1968, as he prepares to drive it round the Goodwood Circuit on July 14, 1962 at the Goodwood Festival of Motoring in Sussex, England. The car was on show to the public for the first time. Campbell, who was seriously injured when his first turbine engined Bluebird crashed on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah in September 1960 at 300 miles an hour, says that the car is eared for a speed ÂVery much in excess of 400 miles an hour. The exhibiting record of 394 mile an hour was set up by the late John Cobb, unseen, at Utah in 1947. Modifications on the new Bluebird include a large tail fin for increased stability.(AP Photo/Str/BIL)
Posted: 15th, August 2012 | In: Sports Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
