1966: Racing on Bonneville Salt Flats
Cars have been raced on Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track - now on the US National Register of Historic Places - since as as far back as 1907. The Salt Flat record breaker run is 10 miles straight, and by the 1960s, rocket powered cars had smashed the 600mph barrier. Today, Bonneville’s salt crust is shrinking, from around three feet in the 1940s and 1950s to just 0.17ft deep today.
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