Motorsports: 65th annual Speed Week gets off to fast start. Wendover • It looks as though the 65th annual Speed Week will live up to its name this year. The event on the glistening white Bonneville Salt Flats opened Saturday with a record 538 preregistered entries, including at least five cars capable of breaking 400 miles per hour. Speed Demon, a streamliner owned by George Poteet and Ron Main and billed as the world’s fastest piston-driven car, got the ...
Aug. 11, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune