1989 Bonneville salt flats racing

Jan 4 2015

[@racerd9669]

Thank god for the save the salt program, it gave me the chance to race, Oct 2022, the salt was perfect. So we still have the salt to race on. It is a once in a lifetime experience, I would not trade for anything.

[@Taketimeout3]

What is this? This is wonderful. Personally I like the commentary because it is authentic for that era and is quite informative to a novice. Back then the USA was still way ahead and showing the World new extremes and formats in Motor Sports. I for one, as a Brit, used to dream of going to the USA. So did everyone on the Planet back then. What a country.

[@BustedNut-]

I as an American i agree with you America was an AMAZING country.

[@terryh5526]

Great to see coverge of Gardner Martin's EZRacer team. We raced against them on many occasions in the mid 80s. Our Team Moby streamliner managed a 59.115 mph run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to win the International Human Powered Speed Championships in 1983. At that time the record runs were moving to high altitude because of thinner air. The Dupont Corporation offered a $10,000 prize for the first human-powered vehicle ( HPV) to set a record above 65mph. Gardner and his team won that prize. I believe that Gardner spent part of the prize to buy his wife, Sandy, a Corvette. Our wives certainly deserved a huge debt of gratitude for putting up with us. Our Moby streamliner team traveled from Florida to Canada and from Boston to Colorado. This almost unknown speed competition deserves a look from any serious lover of speed. At present the world record is 89.59mph set by team Aerovelo with their Eta streamliner. TH-cam has a video of them at Battle Mountain Nevada. Look them up. You won't be disappointed!

[@Lrules364]

ITS THE TURBO QUAD 4 OLDSMOBILE AT 2:30!!!!!! Ive been searching for ages fot this car and who ran it. I finally have just a small glimpse of footage! THANK YOU OP!!!!

[@tweakiepop]

Whoo sexy sounds, thankyou...the doppler effect from the Al Teague car 👍🏻

[@rdaw33]

Went there in 1976, loved it, loved the video, Thanks!!!

[@BSoBadd87]

9:48 that nitro engine SCREAMED like a banshee.🥰 Couldn't even tell it was a nitro v8 until it passed by. 392 mph indeed. Great stuff.😎👍

[@Entity_BlackRed777]

Yeah!! It sounds like a Nascar as well at 10:05!!

[@stevelindstedt8858]

Henry Ford ran his 91.3 MPH run on a frozen lake in Michigan, not at Bonneville.

[@Carstuff111]

God I love watching stuff like this!!!!

[@ReverendBow]

Great video, Thanks for the upload!Amazing ESPN use to cover sports worth watching....

[@NWfan2]

ReverendBow My pleasure.

[@NWfan2]

@Mr. Brown Bear Back in the day ESPN used to cover a wide variety of motorsports.That was before they started to pay huge sums of money for the" more popular"sports.I also liked Speedvision which turned into Speed Channel.

[@neilalbaugh4793]

Like most sports coverage these days, it all concerns sports played with a ball.🙄

[@MrTripcore]

That helicopter shot at the end was great.. I thought it was a car until it took off.

[@MrShobar]

A violation of 14 CFR sect. 91.119.

[@frederickwalton8410]

Get me a list of classes, a rule book, and sign me up!! Looks like a blast.

[@scottyfisher2321]

Love these cars.

[@opheliafisher4108]

Very interesting to watch.

[@dantuttle2050]

Watching Al Teague make a run still gives me chills.

[@qibble455]

Thanks for posting this video NFfan2:)

[@guysmalley]

The first time I raced the official checks your harness which I thought was tight he tighten it so tightly that I couldn’t breathe. But underway I wished it was tighter lol

[@505197]

Then there are the top fuel dragsters that reach 333 mph in 3.7 seconds, not 6 miles. Dragsters do it in 1000 feet now. That's something you have to be there and see to appreciate just how damn fast those cars are.

[@TheFiremonkeyman]

+505197 it's all about the traction. big wide tires on hot asphalt grip a lot better than narrow tires on salt. Some of the cars in the video are just top fuel dragsters with different tires on.

[@505197]

TheFiremonkeyman There must be a limit to how much power you can put through the back tires on the salt. Top Fuelers are making in excess of 8000 HP now, and to hook up they have clutches that slip, otherwise the tires would go up in smoke, so they use the clutch slip which can be dialed in, that's what all the black smoke is behind a fueler. And there is no way a top fuel engine could run that far on nitromethane, the cars that look like fuelers must be running alcohol and some sort of cooling system to run that far. Alky is a pretty good coolant in it's own right, so maybe it's a dry block, but I have my doubts. The launching area at a drag strip is in no way like real world asphalt, it's so damn sticky it tries to pull your boots off.

[@9rjharper]

@@505197 There is fuel classes at Bonneville, but there's classes for gas and alcohol too. The big challenge at Bonneville is having enough traction to overcome the aerodynamic drag. Aero drag increases at a square to velocity. If you go twice as fast, you have 4 times the drag, 4 times as fast and you have 16 times the aero drag. And salt is pretty slick.

[@patriotrob7066]

I've been down the track at Bonneville on my motorcycle witch will go 180+ on the freeway. But out there it's like driving on micro pebbles on a frozen lake. I didn't even make the 150mph club. I ran 148mph. So all you guys that think your bikes or race cars are fast bring um there and you'll be like I was very humble!!!! Salt fever!!!

[@GiDD504]

505197 I can’t wait to see a top fuel dragster in person. Closest I’ve been to that loud of an engine is being in the old McDonald’s nascar or a monster truck rally. 😂

[@Scrapla1]

Just a few years earlier legendary Buckaroo Banzai made his record run through the mountain!

[@peterburrascano8159]

I wonder what would happen if you took a modern 11,000HP, 330+MPH Top Fuel, 1/4 mile car, and found a gear and way to make it last for a full mile. 400? 450?

[@neilalbaugh4793]

Building an engine that will last for 5+ miles at full throttle is very different from one that needs to stay together for 4 seconds.

[@BustedNut-]

​@@neilalbaugh4793 FACTS!!

[@JMRS2108]

RIP jim mederer

[@jcerullo5015]

Have to feel sorry for this reporter suit and tie on the salt flat not even a hat nor sunglasses Bad day at work

[@Anonymous-ux3tu]

Why did the old racers have open cockpits?

[@301speed]

Because they weren't pussies

[@jasonhurst9138]

I feel the need, the need for speed!

[@guysmalley]

I wouldn’t be in a blue blazer and tie in that heat

[@JF32304]

I'd like to see an all electric out there. Bet it would give a top fuel a run for it's money.

[@193322009]

Thanks for not having music. Next time get an announcer that knows something
about racing and leave the tie back in Hollywood. Great video otherwise.

[@johnfairchild3421]

One mile run up then you cross the line flat out for a mile then pull the chute

[@stephaniekent8483]

1989???

[@generalkayoss7347]

That's what it says.

[@johnfairchild3421]

Big Boys. Fast. Toys

[@ZoeyTheGSP]

Wtf is a “CHRYSTLER” Hemi? 9:33

[@davidwesche1579]

No

[@301speed]

No what

[@Slikx666]

Why is trumps hair in this video?

[@generalkayoss7347]

To make Obama's grey head pubes jealous.