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	Memories of Bonneville \| Banks Power: Gale Banks memories of Bonneville racing are all a blur, but the performance is ...
		Bonneville is about dreams—and sometimes even fantasies—brought to life after months or even years of effort, and towed to this place each year with only one thing in mind: Speed.
		Bonneville is the last bastion of the amateur racer and, like Doug and Mike Cook, it's family and friendly.
		Bonneville is about hard work and heroes, high- and low-buck, victory and defeat, fathers and sons, dreams realized and "wait'll next year." But, it's this year, and you're here.
	www.bankspower.com /Bonneville.cfm (1294 words)

	About Speedway Motors
		Speedway operates from their new 42-acre, 520,000 square-foot, two-building corporate campus on the west side of downtown Lincoln.
		Speedway recently completed the purchase of more than one-half million square feet of office and automated warehouse facility.
		She continues to be involved in daily activities, supervising the accounting department and participating in the general operations and management of the company.
	www.speedwaymotors.com /smi_aboutus.aspx (1316 words)

	Bonneville, Lake. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Great Salt and Utah lakes and L. Sevier are remnants of L. Bonneville, which was named for U.S. explorer Benjamin de Bonneville.
		Bonneville Speedway (Bureau of Land Management-B.L.M.) is 15 mi/24 km ENE of Wendover.
		Newfoundland Evaporation Basin in N part of Great Salt Lake Desert captures overflow from Great Salt L., filled since 1989 when lake rose to record levels due to heavy snowfall in Wasatch and Uinta ranges.
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	Bonneville Speed Week 2005- Turbo & HIgh Tech Performance Magazine
		The Bonneville Salt Flats are an expansive, usually desolate, 159 square miles of salt left by the recession of an ancient lake.
		But the founding father of Bonneville Speedway has to be Ab Jenkins a long-time salt racer who challenged then land speed icon Sir Malcolm Campbell to come across the pond in 1935 and compete head-to-head for the title of fastest man on wheels.
		Bonneville is the ultimate run what-you-brung party offering about 75 categories for everything from hamster-powered motorcycles to rocket-powered streamliners to vintage roadsters and everything in between.
	www.turbomagazine.com /events/0512tur_bonneville_speed_2005/index.html (782 words)

	Vulcan Triumphs at Bonneville - MotorcycleUSA.com
		Ever since 1912 when the unique surface was first tested for racing, the Bonneville Raceway has been attracting a special breed of individual who seeks to test the limits of man and machine.
		Most of the attention now given to the Bonneville Speedway comes during Speedweek, where adrenaline junkies of both the 2-wheel and 4-wheel variety come to break world records.
		The desolate expanse of the Bonneville Salt Flats stretches for 30,000 acres, skirting the northern edge of I-80 as it approaches the Utah/Nevada border.
	www.motorcycle-usa.com /Article_Page.aspx?ArticleID=2513&Page=1 (938 words)

	BONNEVILLE CARS AND DRIVERS INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY SALT FLATS UTAH TEAMS
		The Salt Flats are perhaps most famous for their use as the Bonneville Speedway for high-speed race cars which have achieved speeds in excess of 600 miles per hour (1000 kilometers per hour).
		The Bonneville Bench, at approximately 1,555 m (~5,100 ft.) elevation, is part of the preserved ice age shoreline.
		Bonneville is noted for his expeditions to the Oregon Country and the Great Basin.
	www.bluebird-electric.net /bonneville_racing_cars_and_teams.htm (1684 words)

	The Bonneville Salt Flats \| Utah.com
		By 1949, the raceway on the Bonneville Salt Flats was the standard course for world land speed records.
		Although he never visited the salt flats, the area is named in honor of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville, whose expeditions in the 1830's proved the area was part of an ancient basin.
		The Bonneville Salt Flats is administered by the Bureau of Land Management for public use and enjoyment.
	www.utah.com /playgrounds/bonneville_salt.htm (884 words)

	Utah History Resource Center
		BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY (Map of area including pioneer trails) The salt flats were formed as ancient Lake Bonneville slowly evaporated and deposited concentrations of salt onto this playa.
		Named after Captain B. Bonneville, an early military explorer of the West, the Salt Flats measure over 4,400 acres and are primarily Public Land.
		The speedway, 80 feet wide and 10 miles long, is prepared by the Bureau of Land Management in the early summer.
	history.utah.gov /apps/markers/detailed_results.php?markerid=3230 (276 words)

	Daytona International Speedway, Daytona International Speedway Tickets, Daytona Speedway Travel Packages
		Daytona International Speedway opened in 1959, but daring men have tested the limits of man and machine in Daytona Beach, Fla., for more than a century.
		It was at Daytona International Speedway where Cale Yarborough topped 200 mph on his first qualifying lap in 1983 and then, as he went even faster on a second lap, his car took off and flew, turning upside down before crashing.
		Daytona International Speedway renovated its infield before the 2005 Daytona 500 to add a “Fan Zone” that allows fans to buy tickets giving them one of the best up-close views of a NASCAR garage and other special amenities.
	www.sportstravel.com /venues/daytona-international-speedway.php (688 words)

	The Open Road: Racing the Bonneville Salt Flats
		We're about to tell you about a place where there is no speed limit...a place which dares you to drive as fast as you can...they'll even clock you if you can scare up a crash helmet, an entry fee of $75 and a number on the side of your car.
		She was first drawn to the flats in 1951 and Bonneville has become her second home.
		The Salt Flats is the dried-out bed of Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric inland sea.
	savvytraveler.publicradio.org /show/features/1998/19981017/open-road2.shtml (1696 words)

	Bonneville Salt Flats \| Utah Road Trip 2005
		Bonneville Salt Flats Nine Mile Canyon Horse Bench Goblin Valley Moab and Arches Comb Ridge Valley of the Gods Land and Water Capitol Reef Dixie National Forest Escalante Lake Powell
		Geoff was excited to drive on the salt flats, like he had before, but this time we found them covered with a couple inches of water.
		Lake Bonneville, when its shore was at a significantly higher elevation.
	octopup.org /utah2005/saltflats.htm (1261 words)

	Bonneville Speed Week
		One thing about Bonneville that will impress you is the variety of cars and bikes you'll find there.
		There are two courses at Bonneville: the short course and the long course, with the long course being used by the cars and bikes that run over about 200 or so.
		Events at the Bonneville Salt Flats are organized by several sanctioning bodies, each hosting several events per year.
	www.roadsters.com /bonneville (2414 words)

	July 15 - Bonneville Salt Flats \| Southwest Road Trip 2001
		Bonneville Speedway is at the end of a paved road that goes about 5 miles out onto the salt flats, and just dead-ends — no buildings or other permanent structures other than a sign, and a single line of orange cones heading northeast out into the salt flats.
		A steady stream of tourists in their rental cars and minivans came and went — speeding off into the white vastness.
		There are various "islands" that rise up out of the salt flats, including the Silver Island Mountains that parallel the speedway to the northwest, and the tiny Floating Island.
	octopup.org /sw2001/715.htm (465 words)

	UTAH BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS
		The Bonneville Salt Flats of the western Great Salt Lake Desert were formed through the evaporation of the Pleistocene-era Lake Bonneville.
		Although he never visited the salt flats, the area is named in honor of Captain B. Bonneville, whose expeditions in the 1830s proved the area was a part of the ancient basin.
		Since that time the Bonneville Salt Flats have attracted racers from throughout the world and have become the site of numerous land speed records.
	www.solarnavigator.net /geography/bonneville_history_utah_usa.htm (2780 words)

	Cortez Journal Online - Cortez Colorado
		Alexander and the rest of his crew are shooting for Speed Week at the infamous Bonneville Speedway, located in the Bonneville Salt Flats just outside of Wendover, Utah.
		The salt flats are best known for their use as a testing ground for high-speed race cars, some of which have achieved speeds in excess of 600 mph.
		Although people come to race at Bonneville from all over the world, organizers would have to either cancel or postpone festivities if the flats did not dry out in time.
	www.cortezjournal.com /asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/07/news070809_3.htm (933 words)

	Bonneville LSR Land-Speed Record Motorcycle Racing
		The smoothness of the natural salt surface is attributed to the 6-foot-deep salt pan, which is naturally re-surfaced with each annual rainfall.
		The Bonneville Salt Flats were created 15,000 years ago, during the end of the last Ice Age, when Lake Bonneville (roughly the size of Lake Michigan) was created as the earth warmed.
		Unlike Bonneville, the six-mile-long El Mirage dry-lake bed is composed of compacted clay and silt.
	www.khulsey.com /motorcycles/sport_lsr_land_speed_record_racing.html (642 words)

	Today’s Local News » Ready, set — fly!
		He went to the Bonneville Speedway in Utah for the first time in 1951.
		He continued to race for the next two years but was forced to quit in 1967 because of the pain in his knee.
		Hedrich hoped he would be able to try for the record again last year, but the Bonneville World Finals were rained out and Hedrich pulled out of some races because of bad conditions at the salt flats.
	www.todayslocalnews.com /?sect=tln&p=696 (675 words)

	BORDER TO BORDER
		Since the 1930s, Bonneville’s broad, hard, flat and unobstructed surface has made it a mecca for efforts to set ever-faster land speed records.
		In 1931, Ab Jenkins set Bonneville’s first world record in his bright red Mormon Meteor, and racers have converged on Bonneville’s 10-mile-long drag strip in pursuit of record-breaking speed ever since.
		Still, every summer hundreds of thrill-seekers descend on Bonneville, racing their hot rods in a series of time trials.
	www.roadtripusa.com /routes/bordertoborder/nevada/bor_bonneville.html (134 words)

	bonneville200mph.org - CLUB HISTORY
		The 2008 Bonneville 200 MPH Club Summer Party is scheduled for Sat June 7th at the NHRA Motorsports Museum.
		The Champion Spark Plug Co. sponsors a club at the Indianapolis Speedway which allows as members: anyone who has driven the entire 500 mile race, without relief, at an average speed of over 100 mph, whether he wins or not.
		The first meeting of the 200 MPH Club was held September 2, 1953 at the Bonneville Nationals and the five charter members voted to include living foreign drivers who met the requirements.
	bonneville200mph.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=36 (1175 words)

	Spectator Info
		The Bonneville Speedway is located approximately 88 miles west of Salt Lake City, UT right off Interstate 80.
		The spectacular scenery and racing conditions at Bonneville make it one of the most popular areas in the world for speed.
		The colors, excitement, people and smells are some of the reasons we race addicts return to the salt, year after year.
	www.scta-bni.org /SCTA-NewWeb/Bonneville/SpectatorInfo.html (338 words)

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