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For decades, people have used the flat, glasslike surface at Bonneville Salt Flats to set speed records sometimes topping 400 ...

A driver trying to set a land speed record died Sunday after he lost control of his “Speed Demon” rocket-like vehicle when he ...

Driver Chris Raschke, 60, lost control about two and a half miles into a run and was treated by medical professionals at the scene, but died from his injuries, according to the Southern California ...