Land Speed Record tales of Woe are legion, but none is quite so weird, quite so tragic, as that of the 'City of Salt Lake'. Peter Holthusen explains in today's Great Read
Bonneville Salt Flat is a door to the outer limits – a place of strangeness where almost anything can be imagined, almost anything can be achieved. Sahara hot in the summer, Arctic cold in the winter, this vast basin of mineral residue, deposited by prehistoric Lake Bonneville, has stood as a natural barrier to travellers since the opening of America's western frontier. Animals avoid it like the plague; birds that fly over it usually perish.
But there is one animal that returns religiously to this saline plain: the modern speed addict. For the baked-hard, blown-smooth surface here provides the world's most perfect speedway...
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