Once out there, they decided to do their own speed test and took the car past 100 mph for a minute, before realizing their car was starting to shake badly. Years ago, some friends of mine took a road ...

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...

A driver at a land speed racing competition on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats died while attempting to break a speed record, event organizers said. Chris Raschke, 60, was operating a land speed vehicle ...

UTAH, USA — A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the ...

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah's famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...

WENDOVER, Utah (AP) — A small city of tents, trailers and thousands of visitors appears almost every August in the Utah desert to watch cars, motorcycles and anything with wheels rocket across ...

FILE - Cars form a line near the race track at the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah, Aug. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) (Rick Bowmer, Copyright 2016 ...

Race officials, tinkerers and competitors converge in Utah every fall to test both metal and mettle Stuart Conway Photographs by Stuart Conway Bonneville is one of the flattest natural runways on the ...