bonneville salt flat racing.
01-26-2011, 10:43 AM
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bonneville salt flat racing. so what do you guys think about makeing a road trip to speed week sometime in the future? i just read that it cost 400$ to enter. it would be fun just to go out and see what our cars can do. and it would be awesome to see all the fast *** cars that are out there..... I wanna go!!!!
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01-26-2011, 08:28 PM
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Yeah the place is like 10-12 miles long and it's goes on for a week. All it is, is a flat salt bed. Here is a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCbVC...e_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCbVC...e_gdata_player
01-27-2011, 09:14 AM
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I've been to speed week several times. Few pointers for watching.
BRING A BIG CANOPY! You want something large to sit under, tarp for the floor, and some tarp for the sides. I can't stress this enough, the salt is reflective as hell and you'll get burnt to a crisp, you can be sitting in the shade, if you're on the salt you'll get burnt from underneath, lol. The tarps for the sides are so that you can move them around with the sun.
Cloths: Wear light colored long pants and long shirt, not shorts and short sleeves/tank top. Has to do with the sunburn thing, you can wear spf5000bajillion and it won't do much for ya. Also you want a hat with cloth on the back to cover your neck/ears, or a piece of fabric at least to stuff in your hat.
Things to bring: Radio, they have a radio station there to listen to info/speeds about the cars, also music. 2 big coolers, 1 w/ ice and drinks, the other with just ice. It melts fast, and ice is very expensive from the venders at the track. Bicycles/dirtbikes/etc. depending on where you watch, you could be several miles from the bathroom, I had a gas-powered scooter that was the stuff for blasting down to the blue boxes. Propane bbq, as hot as it is, burgers/hotdogs are actually nice to have. Bring lots of food for that matter, if any of you have eaten food at PIR, at about $3-$5 to the cost of your burgers and you're getting close to how expensive it is to eat there. Camera with huge memory card is a must, tons of things to take pics of. There will be a lot of rat rods there, not to mention the race cars.
Lodging: I don't recommend staying at the town close to the flats, it's crowded and noisy, we usually like to stay about an hour from the track to get out of the crowds, get a hotel with a pool too. Nothing beats swimming after a hot day at the track, and the less crowded hotel makes it that much nicer/quiet.
You guys need to go check it out before planning to run, it's more complicated than you think to run even the short track. The short track is 5 miles long, but you can't pull the whole time your first few runs, and you have mph restrictions. Not to mention the salt sticks to EVERYTHING on your car, we pressure washed the crap out of the van we took last time, and salt was still falling off from places we couldn't reach 3 months later still. Most the race cars there have crappy paint and rough bodies for this reason, the salt is major hard on cars.
BRING A BIG CANOPY! You want something large to sit under, tarp for the floor, and some tarp for the sides. I can't stress this enough, the salt is reflective as hell and you'll get burnt to a crisp, you can be sitting in the shade, if you're on the salt you'll get burnt from underneath, lol. The tarps for the sides are so that you can move them around with the sun.
Cloths: Wear light colored long pants and long shirt, not shorts and short sleeves/tank top. Has to do with the sunburn thing, you can wear spf5000bajillion and it won't do much for ya. Also you want a hat with cloth on the back to cover your neck/ears, or a piece of fabric at least to stuff in your hat.
Things to bring: Radio, they have a radio station there to listen to info/speeds about the cars, also music. 2 big coolers, 1 w/ ice and drinks, the other with just ice. It melts fast, and ice is very expensive from the venders at the track. Bicycles/dirtbikes/etc. depending on where you watch, you could be several miles from the bathroom, I had a gas-powered scooter that was the stuff for blasting down to the blue boxes. Propane bbq, as hot as it is, burgers/hotdogs are actually nice to have. Bring lots of food for that matter, if any of you have eaten food at PIR, at about $3-$5 to the cost of your burgers and you're getting close to how expensive it is to eat there. Camera with huge memory card is a must, tons of things to take pics of. There will be a lot of rat rods there, not to mention the race cars.
Lodging: I don't recommend staying at the town close to the flats, it's crowded and noisy, we usually like to stay about an hour from the track to get out of the crowds, get a hotel with a pool too. Nothing beats swimming after a hot day at the track, and the less crowded hotel makes it that much nicer/quiet.
You guys need to go check it out before planning to run, it's more complicated than you think to run even the short track. The short track is 5 miles long, but you can't pull the whole time your first few runs, and you have mph restrictions. Not to mention the salt sticks to EVERYTHING on your car, we pressure washed the crap out of the van we took last time, and salt was still falling off from places we couldn't reach 3 months later still. Most the race cars there have crappy paint and rough bodies for this reason, the salt is major hard on cars.
01-27-2011, 09:49 AM
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Yeah the place is like 10-12 miles long and it's goes on for a week. All it is, is a flat salt bed. Here is a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCbVC...e_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCbVC...e_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8Mk...eature=related
02-02-2011, 08:44 PM
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I looked in to doing it but kinda scares me. From what I have read the salt is a very different surface to drive on at high speed and limited traction at 150mph. But would be fun as hell to watch ill keep to the pavement
02-03-2011, 12:10 AM
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The surface is very different, you can actually lay rubber down on launch, it'll chew your tires up quick. When you get up to speed though, it's crazy stuff, kinda like ice I guess.
Also doing 150 on the salt is a heck of a thing, not because of the cars but because of the surface/heat/elevation. A car that will do 200 on pavement won't do it on salt without changing a lot on the car (suspension, tires, gearing, etc). It's just a weird thing.
02-03-2011, 08:34 AM
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When I was on there site that's what I saw. You're probably right about working your way up so that's probably why you start on the short track.
Which track are you talking about? Last time I was there, they were running 3 tracks. The short one was 5 miles, the long one was 8 miles. You don't get to run the long track until you do safety passes on the short one, and even then you have to "work your way up". They don't let you just go out there and go for it.
The surface is very different, you can actually lay rubber down on launch, it'll chew your tires up quick. When you get up to speed though, it's crazy stuff, kinda like ice I guess.
Also doing 150 on the salt is a heck of a thing, not because of the cars but because of the surface/heat/elevation. A car that will do 200 on pavement won't do it on salt without changing a lot on the car (suspension, tires, gearing, etc). It's just a weird thing.
The surface is very different, you can actually lay rubber down on launch, it'll chew your tires up quick. When you get up to speed though, it's crazy stuff, kinda like ice I guess.
Also doing 150 on the salt is a heck of a thing, not because of the cars but because of the surface/heat/elevation. A car that will do 200 on pavement won't do it on salt without changing a lot on the car (suspension, tires, gearing, etc). It's just a weird thing.
