Bonneville Speedway

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Bonneville Speedway

sports area, Utah, United States

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Bonneville Salt Flats
The site of Bonneville Speedway, the extremely level, smooth flats are as solid as concrete by the summer’s end and are ideally suited for speed trials; several world automobile and motorcycle speed and endurance records have been established there since 1935.
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The site of Bonneville Speedway, the extremely level, smooth flats are as solid as concrete by the summer’s end and are ideally suited for speed trials; several world automobile and motorcycle speed and endurance records have been established there since 1935.
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John Rhodes Cobb
16, 1947, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, U.S., he set world speed records (not broken until 1964) for Class A (unlimited engine size) automobiles: 394.196 mph for one mile and 393.825 mph for one kilometre. Each record was the average of speeds attained in a round trip over…
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16, 1947, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, U.S., he set world speed records (not broken until 1964) for Class A (unlimited engine size) automobiles: 394.196 mph for one mile and 393.825 mph for one kilometre. Each record was the average of speeds attained in a round trip over…
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