However, USFRA also has a number of beginner-level classes that are not run by SCTA, and these are where you can try your hand in many street cars without having to have a full roll cage, HANS device, fire system and hundreds of other safety items. They recognize the same “record” classes and regulations as SCTA, and records set at World of Speed are accepted by SCTA. These are usually invasive enough to prevent the car from being driven on the street as well.īut the USFRA rules are different. SCTA events require extensive safety equipment designed to protect the driver in 200 mph+ accidents. The average of the two runs must exceed the current record. Vehicles must exceed the current record on one run, then sit in impound overnight before attempting to “back up” their first run the following morning. Speeds can range from under 100 mph in small-displacement production car classes, to over 400 mph for the big streamliners. All cars and motorcycles that run under 175 mph use the three-mile “short” course, while the faster rides rocket down the full five miles. SCTA’s events are organized to allow competitors to set records in a wide variety of classes on either a three- or five-mile course. Sandwiched between them is World of Speed, held by the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association (USFRA) in September. The better known is the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), which puts on Speed Week in August and World Finals in October. The first thing you need to know is that there are two clubs that put on events at the Bonneville Salt Flats each year. To check it out, a member of our intrepid team took a homebuilt racer for its first run down the salt.
You can even set records by topping out at less than 70 mph.
What you may not know is that you don’t have to have a 200mph ride or a boundless budget to get in on the fun of racing at Bonneville. Or maybe you were glued to the screen all the way through The World’s Fastest Indian. You know, the ones of a hot rod or muscle car poised on an endless sea of white salt, ready to be launched toward the curved horizon for a rendezvous with the record books. You’ve seen those iconic photos in car magazines all your life.
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