Where Cars Try to Hit Mach 1, the Salt of the Earth Is Crumbling
Where Cars Try to Hit Mach 1, the Salt of the Earth Is Crumbling
The Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah have hosted speed chasers for decades, but the course is distressed. An advocacy group has a plan, but not the money.
Dec 17, 2019
Not even 30 years after Karl Benz built what is said to be the first automobile, Teddy Tetzlaff climbed into a Blitzen Benz racecar and blasted across the snow-white surface of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, clocking in at 142.8 miles per hour and setting an unofficial land-speed record.