![]() He brought his machine out to the venue as he has for the last several years. Sumito “Sam” Okamoto, who lives near LA in California, is a self-made Bonneville challenger. Meaning, more water coming from the Silver Island Mountains.This year Bonneville Speed Week, a speed challenge that is held annually on a huge salt lake in the highlands of Utah, started on August 9th. Keach believes that groundwater is the key to increasing the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats. “They’ve been doing this historically for a long time.” “You can go into Google Earth and look, in an ad hoc way, and look at the last thirty years, or forty years of imagery across the salt flat … and you see the salt flat expand and contract,” Keach said. The idea is to add more water to the surface, which leads to evaporation, and more salt “growing.”īut Keach said a more scientific approach is needed that directs how much water to lay down, and when to lay it down. Keach said that projects have been proposed that would manually pump salt water from beneath the flats to the surface of the flats. ![]() Reversing the shrinking Bonneville Salt Flats? So how are the two related? As the Great Salt Lake decreases, and the thickness of the flats decreases, the racing distance gets shorter. And the surface, which isn’t 100% dry, keeps tire temperatures down at high speeds.
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