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This is a remarkable treat to see this in hi-def. I'm familiar with Bonneville dating back nearly 60 years ago when originally seeing it from still photos and grainy movie films. When I was a kid (early to mid 1960s), my neighbors were the Markley Brothers with their yellow #360 Belly Tank Lakester; and Bob Herda with the #999 B class streamliner. When I look back at those times when I was a kid, I find it remarkable the Markley Brothers had the patience with allowing me to hang out with their crew while they worked on getting that #360 Lakester into shape for the Bonneville Speed Week. That crew for the Markley Brothers worked some late nights, as on some days they'd be playing Rock music well near to midnight, as the following day my Mom would comment about hearing the music resonating through the wall of her bedroom at our house, as the Markleys were next door neighbors. She didn't mind the noise, as she was a stay-at-home Mom. Dad worked nights so it didn't disturb him.
Awesome video footage. I've always wanted to go the Salt Flats and watch the runs. My step dad is building a 1977 Harley Davidson Cafe Racer that has some Bonneville history to it. The bike was purpose-built to run at Bonneville. It set a record, then they parked the bike for the next 40+ years and let it rot away. They never washed the salt off and it ate most of the bike. He wound up finding the bike last year and is restoring it to some of it's former glory. I don't think he has any plans on trying to run the flats again, he's just an old coot who loves motorcycles! Good day, Y'all!
Endless admiration for teams and drivers for the hard work, for the people who build these stunning machines and the drivers who take the risks that they do.
Thank you! Went to Bonneville for Speed Week 2010. It is crazy watching a car go 400+. One thing I thought that was way cool and totally unexpected was the dozens of old die-hard hot rodders that had been showing up every year since the ‘50’s. Lots of them still driving the old roadsters they built when they were teenagers. Some of the coolest old dudes I have ever met.
id love to go! i used to drag race and still got the car. My ex sister in law lives near bye and said would let me crash out there instead of $ motel thats probably booked year in advance, lol
Wow,, those heads on the Lattin - Stevens 888 car are MONSTROUS! Those guys have been on the flats for a very long time. CUDO's to them and all those pursuing that magical speed they're after. 'ol George Poteet in the Speed Demon's still in fine form after all these many years. We wish him continuing success setting records.
Amazing video! Maaaan!!, this should be on every gearhead's bucket list.... Must be the experience of a lifetime just to attend, nevermind run a car. This is just an epic event 👍🏻
I LOVE BONNEVILLE!!!! It is on my bucket list as well. In the meantime, we need to SAVE THE SALT. For future generations of hot rodders. BONNEVILLE IS THE HOLY CITY OF HOT RODDING. Great video and education. Thanks for sharing.
Great content! Thx for sharing... watching this proved to me that you can’t just take a mountain motor, tall gears and go fast. You could tell the crews that had their sh*t together making smooth, seamless passes, and others spinning and bogging etc... but God Bless to all who participated and made it an event.
AWESOME video, thanks much for sharing..I've only been once, 2012, gotta get back out there...curious, what camera did you film this with ? The quality is amazing..
I would love to attend that and see it up close. Huge fan of drag racing and funny cars. Live in Florida. If you're here, you have to go to the Don Garluts Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala. It's awesome. Been numerous times.
Ran there in ’85 with a Callaway turboed 1984 British sold K100RS BMW with EML sidecar with passenger. Custom built at our shops in St Louis, Mo, by Sidecar Restorations & BMW Motorrad of St. Louis, Inc. Thanks for the memories..
Incredible!!!! I wonder of they could modify the round circular cement things to a motor and do a pass on the planned cource to make it as smooth as possible I know they run railroad wheels instead of tires
Yeah it looks like fast moving water. I only noticed that when I was editing the video, it wasn't like that in real life from what I could see. Thanks a lot for watching my videos! Tom
@Dave Micolichek - Thanks Dave. I did some further checking and he was running the 557 CI V8 for these records runs. Not sure if it was in AA/BFS or A/BFS trim.
Is the reason that the trucks push the cars up to a certain speed because they run such a long gear that it wouldn't be able to start off on its own or is there another reason?
Thank you, I was trying to find the best spot for filming and basically I shot at a lot of different locations and it seemed to all work out good. I can't believe I was able to follow the cars so well in the camera on the long shots when they were flying by around the 3 mile marker. The white salt reflects everything and I can't see much through the view finder of the camera. When I went back and edited the video I was really happy with what I saw. Great day out there!
@@johnbode5528 On the Streamliners that go 300-400mph they get pushed because the rear end gears are so low that it would bog the engine down if they took off under there own power. So they get up to about 50 mph and then takes off.
What many don’t realize about the flats is that they are not dry, as the top surface is always pulling moisture from below by capillary action. The surface is like hard pavement that has remains of winter sanding with intermittent rain spots. It sucks for traction!!! Best training for driving on it is a frozen lake, throttle control and downforce are your friends. The inner fenders look like you just came through a little blizzard after driving on the salt. Yes it he’s warm there but even at 100 f it is reasonable if you can find shade and liquids.
The one that looked like a nhra dragster the top fuel dragster team could have that fixed in no time flat but great video man I’m always enthusiastically waiting for the bonneville speed weeks
Did 208.56 mph in the late 90's on a supercharged nitro Hayabusa..And that was only a test run! Just follow the blue line. Above 170, the rear wheel does the steering.
These cars are going insanely fast! There going a little over half the speed of sound. That means the jet car that broke the sound barrier would make these extremely fast precision cars look like they were sitting still.......that's hard for my brain to get around
How long has the tradition of scribing peoples names into the salt by the side of the highway?? 15 years ago I scribed my then girlfriends name and Mine in the salt near Cargill Salt Plant lol it was a neat experience
so far the speed demon land speed racer has the highest record speed for anything piston engine powered at 477 mph. now they just have to go 24 mph faster and they'll have reached the ultimate goal for piston engine vehicles
The SALT SHARK is onto something with front wheel drive, weight IN front. If there is any reason to back out the weight in front keeps the FRONT in the FRONT!
Generally around 95-100 in the summer months. It was 95-98 when I was there and normally I can handle temps like that, but it was hard when I was out 10 to 12 hours each day. Still worth going and experiencing it at least once in your life. This was my 3rd time going to it.
Sorry for coming back late, but these are two different classes. The Bloodhound has a jet engine that doesn’t power the wheels of the vehicle. These car have Normal engines that do.
Oh, gee, that would be destroying the salt flats. Wait a minute, they have let the potash company do that for decades. I have a better idea. Why can’t the government let them pave a small strip of Rogers Dry Lake? Maybe pave the overrun out about another 12 miles. They could gate off the runway and let them run on the overrun. Chances of that happening? ZERO!
@@king-o-vetts9899 There are no tires that can run much over 300 on blacktop due to the heat buildup. LSR tires have about 1/16" of rubber on the contact area so they can survive the rpm at speed & the salt actually keeps them cool. An 800x18 Mickey will grow 1-1/2" in height at 400, they are 9" wide, 30" tall & we run 100psi in them but we run them on a 5-1/2" wide rim so they won't pull off the bead at speed. Their design is narrow for the same reason a snow tire is narrow, it relates to more weight per surface area of contact patch for a lose surface.
I personally believe that building a dedicated 550 mph tire is possible. Drag slicks consistently run up to 340 several times and are in no way constructed for top speed. If I owned Speed Demon, I would build a new chassis to run 4 wheel drive with the cockpit cantilevered just ahead of the front wheels. They obviously have the power to go at least 525. I just think the current tire available becomes dangerous when you try to push it past 450 in a 2 wheel drive configuration.
@@king-o-vetts9899 If you put the driver ahead of the front wheels you have no reference points to know what the car is doing, look at history on that point & the crashes that resulted. We are fortunate to have tires at all due to the tiny sales numbers & the Goodyears & Mickeys are remade 1960 designs. Georges traction control & engine management systems are what has allowed him to go 40mph faster than we did without any. My new liner is 4WD AA/BFS.
@@nzsaltflatsracer8054 Do you have a web site? I would love to follow your project. My brother and I travelled to California to see the Grand National Roadster Show. It is the most prestigious car show in the country. Every year they have a special display theme. That year they dedicated one whole giant display hall to Bonneville racers past and present. It was spectacular. Poteet and Main had the Speed Demon there with all the panels off. So cool. Then again, I am the kind of guy that, no matter what kind of race we go to see, I prefer to roam the pits than watch the race. Cheers.
Yeah it has to be crazy at the car washes in Wendover. I washed mine in Salt Lake City where my hotel was. Way cheaper getting a hotel there rather than Wendover.
Classic Duct Tape roll on team Vesco Car!!! The size of a 1 BBL carb on 888** Salt Shark 2004 ( The Green Manalishi With The Two Pronged Crown) 'JP', Some look '50's Science fiction, Even Budweiser sponsored-so HOT ya gotta drink BEER out there. Love to C NASCAR or NHRA out there
🤔 3:39: Call me crazy, but unless he's competing for the "world's longest wheel spin", it may have been helpful to choose tires that provide traction on salt.....
There actually is no tire that will "hook" on salt, it only takes weight and speed before you can really get into the throttle at the salt flats. A lot of racers will test the traction before the 1 mile marker and see how it is that day, so he was blipping the throttle a bit and got more than he expected I'm sure. It is a 5 mile race course so they do have plenty of track to ease into the throttle to get up to speed. Good question though!
@@tomeighty I would think that studded tires would provide some additional traction. Clearly you can't just punch the pedal and expect that your car is going to hook up and not slip, even with studded tires. But id think they would provide a fairly significant traction improvement over non-studded tires, to help keep your car from losing control. BTW, How thick is the salt there? If you picked random spots here and there, and dug holes, would it only be a foot or two before you hit dirt? Or is it ridiculously thick, like 50-100-200 feet thick?
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This is a remarkable treat to see this in hi-def.
I'm familiar with Bonneville dating back nearly 60 years ago when originally seeing it from still photos and grainy movie films. When I was a kid (early to mid 1960s), my neighbors were the Markley Brothers with their yellow #360 Belly Tank Lakester; and Bob Herda with the #999 B class streamliner.
When I look back at those times when I was a kid, I find it remarkable the Markley Brothers had the patience with allowing me to hang out with their crew while they worked on getting that #360 Lakester into shape for the Bonneville Speed Week.
That crew for the Markley Brothers worked some late nights, as on some days they'd be playing Rock music well near to midnight, as the following day my Mom would comment about hearing the music resonating through the wall of her bedroom at our house, as the Markleys were next door neighbors. She didn't mind the noise, as she was a stay-at-home Mom. Dad worked nights so it didn't disturb him.
Awesome video footage. I've always wanted to go the Salt Flats and watch the runs. My step dad is building a 1977 Harley Davidson Cafe Racer that has some Bonneville history to it. The bike was purpose-built to run at Bonneville. It set a record, then they parked the bike for the next 40+ years and let it rot away. They never washed the salt off and it ate most of the bike. He wound up finding the bike last year and is restoring it to some of it's former glory. I don't think he has any plans on trying to run the flats again, he's just an old coot who loves motorcycles! Good day, Y'all!
The rebuild would be a good addition to your channel?
Endless admiration for teams and drivers for the hard work, for the people who build these stunning machines and the drivers who take the risks that they do.
Thank you! Went to Bonneville for Speed Week 2010. It is crazy watching a car go 400+. One thing I thought that was way cool and totally unexpected was the dozens of old die-hard hot rodders that had been showing up every year since the ‘50’s. Lots of them still driving the old roadsters they built when they were teenagers. Some of the coolest old dudes I have ever met.
Never been there but friends who have been say that one of the best aspects of Speedweek is the comradery between all attendees.
id love to go! i used to drag race and still got the car. My ex sister in law lives near bye and said would let me crash out there instead of $ motel thats probably booked year in advance, lol
Ya must get out there!! There's World of Speed event too, less money's at hotels that event.. same comradare
Tracy Lemme he drivers are in an elite group, like fighter pilots.
U see that in the worlds fastest Indian... Everyone wanted to help that old man run his bike
@@nickmartinez5644 That a fantastic story and movie!!! Truly good people, I loved when he shoe polished wheels too look new!!!!😰😀
Wow,, those heads on the Lattin - Stevens 888 car are MONSTROUS! Those guys have been on the flats for a very long time. CUDO's to them and all those pursuing that magical speed they're after. 'ol George Poteet in the Speed Demon's still in fine form after all these many years. We wish him continuing success setting records.
Awesome to see everyone out racing and having a good time despite what’s going on in the world.
YEAH , FJB
That was the best up close video/audio coverage of Bonneville speed week I have ever seen.
Amazing video! Maaaan!!, this should be on every gearhead's bucket list.... Must be the experience of a lifetime just to attend, nevermind run a car. This is just an epic event 👍🏻
well said sir... I couldnt agree more..
This is the first year I missed speedweek. Thank you for sharing this!!
Thanks for posting. These guys have lots of time on their hands, big bank accounts and even bigger balls.
And bigger bank accounts...
Great video George Poteet is the fastest senior citizen on the planet.thanks for posting.
I LOVE BONNEVILLE!!!! It is on my bucket list as well. In the meantime, we need to SAVE THE SALT. For future generations of hot rodders. BONNEVILLE IS THE HOLY CITY OF HOT RODDING. Great video and education. Thanks for sharing.
it's a dying breed...infact if things stay the way they are aftermarket parts will be a shell of what they are now... younger gen doesn't care
Excellent vid. Thank You. I got into the 2 club Sept 30, 1988.
Awesome, glad you enjoyed the video. I had a blast out there filming it. Tom
Good too see that in the high strangeness of 2020, some people are still keeping their eye on the prize 👍👍
Strangeness is the new normal.
Great content! Thx for sharing... watching this proved to me that you can’t just take a mountain motor, tall gears and go fast. You could tell the crews that had their sh*t together making smooth, seamless passes, and others spinning and bogging etc... but God Bless to all who participated and made it an event.
Take big motor.
Hammer gas.
Some seriously cool equipment in this clip. The salt shark looks like a sculpture.
I was surprised no blower belts on that one. I saw one do that at Gainesville in the early Eighties it went a 100 feet in the air good times.
F to pay respects
To hear those engines come screaming past u at 10000 rpm plus is amazing,it never gets old.nascar has nothing at this
that background music at the start was just an offbeat spirit in the sky
Mind boggling---- great stuff, thanks to all. Stay Safe!
Great footage, from behind its clear how difficult it is to control those cars on the salt
AWESOME video, thanks much for sharing..I've only been once, 2012, gotta get back out there...curious, what camera did you film this with ? The quality is amazing..
I would love to attend that and see it up close. Huge fan of drag racing and funny cars. Live in Florida. If you're here, you have to go to the Don Garluts Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala. It's awesome. Been numerous times.
That "Got Salt" car looked like something I would've drawn when I was 12.
You dont have the talent
Early 60's saw the last of the chain drive blowers! THANK GOD!
Ran there in ’85 with a Callaway turboed 1984 British sold K100RS BMW with EML sidecar with passenger. Custom built at our shops in St Louis, Mo, by Sidecar Restorations & BMW Motorrad of St. Louis, Inc. Thanks for the memories..
That was fun to watch, thank you.
Incredible!!!!
I wonder of they could modify the round circular cement things to a motor and do a pass on the planned cource to make it as smooth as possible
I know they run railroad wheels instead of tires
Man it must have been hotter than hell out there.
Yes it was. It was worth it though!
If you get a chance to go, be prepared for the salt to be way brighter than you can imagine. Your standard sun glasses won’t be enough.
4:00 Amazing mirage!!
Yeah it looks like fast moving water. I only noticed that when I was editing the video, it wasn't like that in real life from what I could see. Thanks a lot for watching my videos! Tom
These things need a rudder instead of a steering wheel.
The first thing I noticed about the one at 4:40 whos engine exploded was how much wobble there was when they were accelerating.
A Holly system going that fast is a new one for the Holly company! Holy hannah.
Fantastic video am all ways curious to see coverage at the salt flats
outstanding, as a finance guy I can't help but think what the cost of the cars are. So glad there are people that can afford this
What engine setup was Poteet running in Speed Demon? He has run quite a few different engine setups in order to go after records in multiple classes.
@Dave Micolichek - Thanks Dave. I did some further checking and he was running the 557 CI V8 for these records runs. Not sure if it was in AA/BFS or A/BFS trim.
Thank you. This is great footage. 👍
I wanted to go, but stayed home. Kicking myself.
Is the reason that the trucks push the cars up to a certain speed because they run such a long gear that it wouldn't be able to start off on its own or is there another reason?
Pity that there's no commentary & we don't know what we're watching. More info would be great.
I hear whining
Bucket list
Put it on the calendar for next year! Baby steps. ha ha
WHO are these Speed Freaks!! Love it.
We're coming. Bucket list stuff for me.
Thanks for the video Tom. The view from behind the cars was cool. You could really see how the higher HP cars spin the rear tires and get squirrelly.
Thank you, I was trying to find the best spot for filming and basically I shot at a lot of different locations and it seemed to all work out good. I can't believe I was able to follow the cars so well in the camera on the long shots when they were flying by around the 3 mile marker. The white salt reflects everything and I can't see much through the view finder of the camera. When I went back and edited the video I was really happy with what I saw. Great day out there!
Check that if the bucket list! If my back gets better I would love to go some day!
Is that why they're getting a push start, so they don't spin out and dig huge holes in the salt (or, you know, go careening into the spectators)?
@@johnbode5528 On the Streamliners that go 300-400mph they get pushed because the rear end gears are so low that it would bog the engine down if they took off under there own power. So they get up to about 50 mph and then takes off.
@@tomeighty I think you meant to say high.
Thanks for the videos from the Salt flats
Build up on tires. try non stick Pam, Burt would say. is there a bicycle race when its over? How much does it cost to camp and watch typically?
cool video, thanks for putting it together
What many don’t realize about the flats is that they are not dry, as the top surface is always pulling moisture from below by capillary action. The surface is like hard pavement that has remains of winter sanding with intermittent rain spots. It sucks for traction!!! Best training for driving on it is a frozen lake, throttle control and downforce are your friends. The inner fenders look like you just came through a little blizzard after driving on the salt. Yes it he’s warm there but even at 100 f it is reasonable if you can find shade and liquids.
theres a fine art to driving fast in a straight line on salt with that much horsepower
The one that looked like a nhra dragster the top fuel dragster team could have that fixed in no time flat but great video man I’m always enthusiastically waiting for the bonneville speed weeks
To me it looks like it was basically made from a top fuel dragster
Yellow vesco racing is beautiful.
Did 208.56 mph in the late 90's on a supercharged nitro Hayabusa..And that was only a test run! Just follow the blue line. Above 170, the rear wheel does the steering.
Excellent Coverage Tom! 👍
Very cool and expensive rush for certain
These cars are going insanely fast! There going a little over half the speed of sound. That means the jet car that broke the sound barrier would make these extremely fast precision cars look like they were sitting still.......that's hard for my brain to get around
When the sound barrier is broken will you still be able to hear the motor ?
Don’t pump the gas on a blower!
I've been here 40 years and never gone to see this. Can the public attend?
Yes they may
Thank you for posting this video .
Some of the most Awesome vehicles in the World
How long has the tradition of scribing peoples names into the salt by the side of the highway?? 15 years ago I scribed my then girlfriends name and Mine in the salt near Cargill Salt Plant lol it was a neat experience
Legend has it that everyone is still looking for water and chap stick, and wondering why everything taste like salt
some closeups of the cars and engines would be nice.
is the salt in bad condition?
3:40 That guy may have big balls but he also has a lead foot, the car is just lighting up its drive wheels. The results are then shown at 4:20 !
so far the speed demon land speed racer has the highest record speed for anything piston engine powered at 477 mph. now they just have to go 24 mph faster and they'll have reached the ultimate goal for piston engine vehicles
Wish and Love to be there
Amazing skills on show.
1:00 Yea that looks like it’ll be stable at 400mph! 👍
The SALT SHARK is onto something with front wheel drive, weight IN front. If there is any reason to back out the weight in front keeps the FRONT in the FRONT!
Super Scary to man one of these monsters !
Cool video, how hot does it get there?
Generally around 95-100 in the summer months. It was 95-98 when I was there and normally I can handle temps like that, but it was hard when I was out 10 to 12 hours each day. Still worth going and experiencing it at least once in your life. This was my 3rd time going to it.
@@tomeighty Thanks, i would love to get there some day. The movie Fastest Indian put the bug into me.
Hotter than a two peckered Billy goat i tell ya!!! No reprieve in the shade neither. Lol! 20 more degrees cooks a steak on the Silverado hood!!
And you wouldn’t even have to season it.
Speed demon rules!!
22 years of west coasting it to reno and wacky fornia, always seamed to miss it by one or two days coming and going, it sucked .
Is the directional instability when starting from motor precision?
Bloodhound LSR: That's cute.
Sorry for coming back late, but these are two different classes. The Bloodhound has a jet engine that doesn’t power the wheels of the vehicle. These car have Normal engines that do.
Bloodhound LSR: we will complete the car in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013...
Why doesn't the salt flat racing community fund raise and over many years put down the worlds longest runway.
Oh, gee, that would be destroying the salt flats. Wait a minute, they have let the potash company do that for decades. I have a better idea. Why can’t the government let them pave a small strip of Rogers Dry Lake? Maybe pave the overrun out about another 12 miles. They could gate off the runway and let them run on the overrun. Chances of that happening? ZERO!
@@king-o-vetts9899 There are no tires that can run much over 300 on blacktop due to the heat buildup. LSR tires have about 1/16" of rubber on the contact area so they can survive the rpm at speed & the salt actually keeps them cool. An 800x18 Mickey will grow 1-1/2" in height at 400, they are 9" wide, 30" tall & we run 100psi in them but we run them on a 5-1/2" wide rim so they won't pull off the bead at speed. Their design is narrow for the same reason a snow tire is narrow, it relates to more weight per surface area of contact patch for a lose surface.
I personally believe that building a dedicated 550 mph tire is possible. Drag slicks consistently run up to 340 several times and are in no way constructed for top speed. If I owned Speed Demon, I would build a new chassis to run 4 wheel drive with the cockpit cantilevered just ahead of the front wheels. They obviously have the power to go at least 525. I just think the current tire available becomes dangerous when you try to push it past 450 in a 2 wheel drive configuration.
@@king-o-vetts9899 If you put the driver ahead of the front wheels you have no reference points to know what the car is doing, look at history on that point & the crashes that resulted. We are fortunate to have tires at all due to the tiny sales numbers & the Goodyears & Mickeys are remade 1960 designs. Georges traction control & engine management systems are what has allowed him to go 40mph faster than we did without any. My new liner is 4WD AA/BFS.
@@nzsaltflatsracer8054 Do you have a web site? I would love to follow your project. My brother and I travelled to California to see the Grand National Roadster Show. It is the most prestigious car show in the country. Every year they have a special display theme. That year they dedicated one whole giant display hall to Bonneville racers past and present. It was spectacular. Poteet and Main had the Speed Demon there with all the panels off. So cool. Then again, I am the kind of guy that, no matter what kind of race we go to see, I prefer to roam the pits than watch the race. Cheers.
Enjoyed ❤
Most of the machines look huge when you first see them the the driver gets out and you realise just how small they actually are.
Are there any competitors that are not millionaires? ....great vid thanks ....Subbed 👍
Yes Burt Monroe was not rich . Some of his records still hold . Vintage motorcycle .
The would boot Burt out today, no exceptions.
After Speed Week the car washes in Wendover are flanked with drifts of salt. Must be the same in Tooele going the other way.
Yeah it has to be crazy at the car washes in Wendover. I washed mine in Salt Lake City where my hotel was. Way cheaper getting a hotel there rather than Wendover.
Thanks, that was cool. :-)
Thanks for the upload
I have been a couple of time and I need to go back again and again and again.
Thanks for the video.
thanks!
where do they go to practice ?
Dry lake beds in California. They are not as long as Bonneville but good practice grounds.
Classic Duct Tape roll on team Vesco Car!!! The size of a 1 BBL carb on 888** Salt Shark 2004 ( The Green Manalishi With The Two Pronged Crown) 'JP', Some look '50's Science fiction, Even Budweiser sponsored-so HOT ya gotta drink BEER out there. Love to C NASCAR or NHRA out there
Heck of turnout this year
Awesome!!!
Team vesco... didn’t I see a car similar in the movie worlds fastest Indian!?
They never show footage of the jackalope races.
The yellow one looks like an xj-13 jaguar all stretched out lol
Salt was slippery this year...woah.
So where are the TANDEM cars?
🤔 3:39: Call me crazy, but unless he's competing for the "world's longest wheel spin", it may have been helpful to choose tires that provide traction on salt.....
There actually is no tire that will "hook" on salt, it only takes weight and speed before you can really get into the throttle at the salt flats. A lot of racers will test the traction before the 1 mile marker and see how it is that day, so he was blipping the throttle a bit and got more than he expected I'm sure. It is a 5 mile race course so they do have plenty of track to ease into the throttle to get up to speed. Good question though!
@@tomeighty
I would think that studded tires would provide some additional traction. Clearly you can't just punch the pedal and expect that your car is going to hook up and not slip, even with studded tires. But id think they would provide a fairly significant traction improvement over non-studded tires, to help keep your car from losing control.
BTW, How thick is the salt there? If you picked random spots here and there, and dug holes, would it only be a foot or two before you hit dirt? Or is it ridiculously thick, like 50-100-200 feet thick?
The way these things are built are like they're gonna go mach 3. But they don't even go a fourth of that. LAAAMMMEEE!!!!!
You could probably fit one of those engines in a challanger if you tried
That looks like fun
Come mai essendo iscritto non ricevevo piu' notizie
Please is possible de monter un compresseur sur un v8 plus twin turbo et the kit noz