land speed racing

LandSpeed Louise provides the background on both books: “Bonneville’s Women of Land Speed Racing, the full-color book, grew out enormous interest in Chapter 5 Women in Helmets and the Record Books included in the full, black and white history book. I was certain that at least 150 ladies after 70 years of salt racing, but was utterly floored when I sent the manuscript to press with 307 names! I am still finding out about others that I never knew about and the list is now 333 strong and growing as verification is completed. As with all my published work, it …

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Get your AUTOGRAPHED copy now! Astronaut John Glenn used Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats as a landmark from space, but on earth amateur motorsports enthusiasts have used the blistering hot, flat pancake as a speed laboratory for more than a century. With their handcrafted cars, trucks and motorcycles, thousands of men and women have hosted pageants of power each summer since 1949. Every single one came looking for the answer to the same question: “How fast will to go?” Those efforts have made them the fastest people on earth reaching speeds in excess of 500MPH. On the salt, people find the …

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