![]() Smoke filled the valley, filtering the clean desert light into the greasy orange of a chili-dog wrapper and hiding not just the horizon but even the cones a few feet out from the starting line in a smudge of ash. Not on the flats themselves-there's nothing there to burn-but nearby in the dry mountains. Even the slim orange flags that mark the boundaries of racetrack and pits bent to the ground in supplication. ![]() Winds lifted clouds of the soft gray silt that lines the outer banks of the salt flats and turned the entire lake bed into a giant, hazy, stinging blasting cabinet. Near Wendover, Utah, its intimidating landscape can only be crossed by those with enough vision to imagine founding a city on the other side of a seemingly endless expanse of white salt-and land speed racers who can see a record nine miles away.īonneville Speed Week 2021, which kicked off last Saturday and ends Friday, began with more of a stumble than a triumphant stride. The Bonneville Salt Flats is a place for the farsighted. ![]() Photo credit: Marc Gewertz and Speed Demon Media ![]()
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