In October 1970 Gary Gabelich set a new record of 622 MPH on the flats. He was the first person to reach a land speed of more than 400 MPH - it was 601 MPH!! The record setting doesn’t stop there though. The records don’t stop there! A new record was later set by Craig Breedlove in November 1965. He averaged 301 mph in 2 passes down the raceway on Sept 3, 1935. The Salt Flats is also the home to the highest land speed record by Sir Malcolm Campbell, who reached a top speed of more than 300 MP in one mile. It is home to Utah’s very own Race Week and is home to the Land Speed world record runs. The Bonneville Salt Flats are also home to some other activities other than the occasional salt tasting. Similar to how they say you should make your pasta cooking water - like the ocean that is. For it to be called a salt flat wouldn’t you want to see if it was actually salt… It taste just like highly concentrated salt. You can probably already assume what happens next… yeah. We both kneeled down and scraped a small piece off the ground. Well, after we finished gawking at the miles of salt, we looked down at the flats under us.
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