The salt was hard and dry, while other times it can be completely flooded or a sloppy, salty mess. Talk about wide open spaces! I didn’t do any research in advance and it turns out, we got pretty lucky to see it in the condition it was in. ![]() I was in love with it’s other worldliness. This place….lemme tell ya…oooooeeeee! It’s a sight to see! We found a place on BLM outside of the salt flats to camp and drove the scooter to the flats to explore. After doing all that work on Mander, I was nervous to see if all the new parts I installed were going to stick. Visiting the Bonneville Salt Flats had been on my bucket list for years and we were just a couple hours away, so off we went!Ī post shared by A Girl & Her Commander drive to the salt flats went off without a hitch, thank goodness. ![]() After a couple of nights under the trees, we were ready for an adventure. I had been parked in the suburbs for well over a month and I was craving the recharge only nature could give me. When Jeffrey arrived, we hightailed it to the nearest forest to seek out the much needed peace and quiet. I finished working on a few things, explored the city on my scooter and waited the arrival of my boyfriend. The owners of the house was a guy named Bruce and his son, Cameron, who both quickly made me feel welcomed. The back lot was behind a house that was under construction so nobody was living there for the time being. You with me? Yeah, I had a hard time following that trail of connections too but I was happy to let it lead me to a little city named Tooele, where I could safely park and wait. We can’t wait to make history in Bolivia.After I left Gavin’s, I needed a place to park for a little while longer because my boyfriend, Jeffrey, decided to fly in for a visit! Someone on Instagram that follows me, has a friend from high school, who’s husband’s cousin had a back lot I could park in outside of SLC. And the third time’s the charm, right? This promises to be another great track and prime conditions, and that 400-mph barrier awaits. Every trip to the Salar de Uyuni has been an adventure and a learning process. “We are excited to finally announce our return to Bolivia, this time with some four-wheel competitors and FIA-sanctioning along with FIM. “We’ve made attempts in recent years to return to the Salar, but the pandemic and other issues complicated everything,” said Akatiff. Akatiff, organizer for the 2023 TOP 1 Oil Bolivia Speed Trials, and Robinson are looking forward to another attempt with the turbo-charged twin-Hayabusa-powered streamliner in August. The Ack Attack currently holds the all-time two-wheel FIM Land Speed World Record at 376.363 mph (605.697 km/h), set at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2010 with rider Rocky Robinson, but the team has been on a quest for the 400-mph (643 km/h) barrier ever since. Although his record only stood for one day, Lamb will always be the first-ever to record a world land-speed record on the Salar de Uyuni.Īmong those looking forward to returning to the Salar de Uyuni is Mike Akatiff’s Top 1 Oil Ack Attack team. Previous FIM Land Speed World Record events on the Salar have seen outstanding conditions, and multiple world records, the first set by Al Lamb in 2017, a speed of 427.84 km/h (265.849 mph) aboard his Honda CBR1000RR, at the time, the fastest-ever sit-on motorcycle speed. The August event will take place during the Bolivian winter, with total average rainfall between May and August at 3mm (0.01 inches) ensuring prime salt conditions. The course at the Bolivia Speed Trials will be 24 km (15 miles) long and 33 meters (110 feet) wide, the prime stage for racers needing a longer track than Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats can provide. Set atop Bolivia’s Altiplano at 3,600 meters (12,000 feet) above sea level, the Salar de Uyuni covers over 10,000 square kilometers (nearly 4000 square miles) with salt up to 10 meters thick, making it the ideal natural terrain for a seemingly endless track. Find more information on the event and entry cost at. ![]() The event will be limited to total of 15 to help ensure optimum turnaround times for qualifying record runs. The Top 1 Oil Bolivia Speed Trials is made possible through the support of Federacion Boliviana de Motociclismo (FBM), and is open to all automobile and motorcycle entries. This is a press release from FIM Communications… Tribute to Ralph Hudson, Bolivia 2017. Five years later, the Top 1 Oil Bolivia Speed Trials are finally set to return to the Salar for an FIM/FIA-sanctioned event, August 16-21, 2023. Following the pioneering effort was a return event in 2018, but since then, any attempts to return to South America’s famous proving grounds, the largest salt flats in the world, had been thwarted. Back in 2017, some of the world’s fastest motorcycle racers headed to South America to make history at the first-ever FIM-sanctioned land speed world record event on Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni.
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