The 300, 400, 500 and eventually 600 mph records were all set and broken there. The racing history of the Bonneville Salt Flatsīy the time Noeth arrived at the Salt Flats, generations of drivers had made memories and history on the seemingly endless veneer of white salt, earning the flats the nickname “Speed Capital of the World.” Utah native Ab Jenkins had set records in the 1930s in a car christened the “Mormon Meteor III,” which had a bizarrely long snout designed to fit an aircraft engine and a tiny cockpit (he also set a 68 mph record on the flats driving a tractor and once drove the same 10-mile track for 24 hours, emerging from the car clean-shaven, having used a razor while driving the last loop at 125 mph without a windshield).īy 1949, the Salt Flats had become the premier place for racers to see if their vehicles were truly the fastest in the world.
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