1/27/2024 0 Comments Utah salt flats drifting![]() Here human beings conduct their vehicles in singular fashion, driving across a vast unblemished white canvas in long undeviated lines, a solitary scratch on freshly shaken Etch-A-Sketch. ![]() Lets step back and assess and suspend the cultural static, what are we seeing, what exactly is happening here? In front of us is a fleet of vehicles shaped like teardrops, like rockets, like bullets at rest waiting to be shed, ignited, and launched into this arena of speed. This is the world renowned Bonneville Salt Flats, a dried lake in nowhere Utah where the speed obsessed make pilgrimage every summer. Trucks, trailers, vans, pop-up tents, and umbrellas that have been used to transport and house the jet cars, drag trucks, speed bikes, rocket sleds, and pretty much any other form of straight-line land based velocity machine you can imagine are scattered across the salt like building blocks on white paper. The air is laden with the fragrance of fuel gas, diesel, alcohol, and jet menace the nose.
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