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A driver 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, organizers ...

The Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah have become a proving ground where engineering obsession, physical courage, and a stark, almost lunar landscape converge. On this blinding white expanse, speed record ...