F-1 Team to Attempt Speed Record at Bonneville

[XB70]

Bonneville 400

 

[Buzzsaw]

It would be great if BAR breaks 400KPH. I would like to see BAR and Toyota win a Grand Prix race. It is about time.

 

[jason07-1zzfe]

I thought CART/Champ has hit 240mph before on certain tracks before? At least during practice or qualifying. Or maybe it was Indy 500. One of those has I'm almost certain.

 

[XB70]

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Originally posted by Jason Troxell:
I thought CART/Champ has hit 240mph before on certain tracks before? At least during practice or qualifying. Or maybe it was Indy 500. One of those has I'm almost certain.

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Correct! Read the rest of the thread, too, it has some interesting info about the Germans' record attempts in 1938.

 

[XB70]

Well, the attempt is going to have to wait as the 2005 World Finals have been cancelled due to standing water on the course.

 

[99]

I always wanted to know what a F1 car could do if it had a wide open place to run and was geared accordingly. It should be a wild ride.

 

[Bror Jace]

I saw an update to this a week or more ago on "Motorsport Mundial" on SPEED Channel.

As described, the salt flats were under a few inches of water. Kind of funny. It looked like a huge lake. Acres and acres of lake ... just a couple inches deep.

So, they went to a nearby airport, took the wing off and went 257+ mph on the runway. Pretty cool.

--- Bror Jace

 

[XB70]

URGENT ALERT! > Speed News had a report on this Sunday night. At least parts of it - if not all of it - were the same as the Motorsport Mundial segment.

Speed News re-airs at 4:00am EST, 8:00am EST and 12:00pm EST. Set your recording device to record the xx:45-xx:51 minute portion of the program in order to get the Bonneville 400 feature.