Saving the Salt

[SPARKY]

Remember --- OUR objective ---a very viable RESTORED INTERNATIONAL COARSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are going to be trying to LEARN to play 3 dimensional chess for a number of years---this is what we are facing---IT CAN BE DONE!!!!!!!!

[desotoman]

Remember --- OUR objective ---a very viable RESTORED INTERNATIONAL COARSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want the whole basin we race in restored, not just one race-coarse.

Tom G.

[crawford]

Boy there is a whole lot of I in there!!!!

[SPARKY]

Mayor Crawford---help me understand your point please.  Thanks in advance

[desotoman]

Boy there is a whole lot of I in there!!!!

Hi Mike,

You probably don't remember me and that is OK, but I took the time to stop by your Auto Parts store during Speed Week, spend money, and Thank You and your Wife, for all you have done to help us with the save the salt campaign.

Here is my experience at Speed Week 2016, we are pitted down at the far end of the pits and I need to get rid of 20 gallons of water. So I hook up a hose and start to drain the water onto the salt. After 20 or 30 seconds the salt dissolved and the water disappeared into the mud/dirt underneath, so I immediately take the hose and spread the water over the salt so it can evaporate. The salt was not even 3/8" thick when looking at the small hole the water made.

Pitted next to us was a Streamliner, and when they returned from making a run they have a damaged body panel, and the driver told me he thought the foot pedals were moving sideways about 4", the owner checked the side play it was 1/8", that is how rough the salt was.

SCTA did their best to make course's everyone could run on, but you can only work with what is available at the time you drag a course.

Ditto for the USFRA meet.

If we are not able to race on the Salt Flats it is everyone's loss. The racers who have invested tens of thousands of dollars in their Racecars and Motorcycles, and the Town of Wendover where both Nevada and Utah enjoy the money we spend every time we come to town. Every Hotel, Motel, Diner, Gas Station, Grocery Store, Fast Food eatery, Casino, Hardware store, and Carquest auto, benefit from the Salt Flat racers.

Any ideas? Or your point of view on the subject? Sorry, I did not understand your last post.
 
Tom G.

[crawford]

This year was not a really bad year for racing, but like in the past rain events, the year after is rough the next year better and the third year is usually a great surface, but mother nature is not very perdictable. Like I have said over and over again, the racers are important to Wendover, just not as important as some of them think they are. and I did say some, not all.

[Buickguy3]

  By the way, Mike, Thanks for your help at the store this year as always.
    Doug 

[SPARKY]

Thanks Mayor Crawford for your clarification ---

Heads up:

EL MIRAGE

I do not think this impacts us anymore but we need someone to attend these open houses re-guarding 29 Palms Marine Air Ground Combat Center.   www.seisforlaa.com

Tuesday      10/25/2016  Joshua Tree Community Center  5:00-8:00 p.m.

Wednesday 10/26/2016  Palm Springs Convention Center 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Thursday     10/27/2016  Barstow Harvey House      5:00-8:00 p.m. 

I am sure lots of folks got this notification and there is no formal presentation---We need racers to mix and mingle---this crowd could and MAY have a tremendous impact on our Future---  put your NICE on  , mix and mingle MAKE CONTACTS---some where down the line---who knows

Thanks Sparky  602-762-2211

[velocity]

I wonder what Mr. Crawford wants your money for:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-crawford-14116412b?authType=name&authToken=Mp5g&trk=connect_hub_pymk_profile_name

[crawford]

Dont really want your money, but hey if you want to send me some of it then...............by the way thats a link that networks people, not a go fund me site. Some times you do amaze me!!!!!!!!

[nrhs sales]

This year was not a really bad year for racing, but like in the past rain events, the year after is rough the next year better and the third year is usually a great surface, but mother nature is not very perdictable. Like I have said over and over again, the racers are important to Wendover, just not as important as some of them think they are. and I did say some, not all.

Most people are not as important as they think they are.

[SPARKY]

lol

[kiwi belly tank]

I think the term "save the salt" is not really applicable to the condition of Bonneville any more, now we should be saying "Return the Salt". Anybody that says the salt is still there is misinformed or lying. We know where it used to be & we know where most of it is now. It's not phuking rocket science!
  Sid.

[ronnieroadster]

  Sid your correct it should be RETURN THE SALT that's what the title should be and the focus of any action for the restoration of the salt flats. This year the amount of salt on top of the mud in the pits and impound was not even one inch thick. When we emptied a cooler on the salt in the pits and impound the salt disappeared  in a matter of seconds exposing the mud. This condition did not happen the last time I was on the salt in 2009 the dateriation since then was shocking.
   This year on my first run on the short coarse after mile three I hit a heck of a bump seems the thin salt surface was gone. My car had a slight amount of damage to the lower fairing which we fixed in Impound. SCTA did one hell of a job giving us the best they could considering the conditions but I wonder what could have been if the surface conditions were as nice as what we experienced in 2009. Can you say traction!
   RETURN THE SALT
         Ron

[Jack Gifford]

I just finished re-reading coverage of the '57 Bonneville Nationals in Hot Rod Magazine, with numerous high quality photographs. Sure is a dramatic contrast with more recent images. Although the author (Ray Brock) almost sounded apologetic that the salt "wasn't quite as good as last year", it looked (and apparently performed) great- new records in almost half of the 45 classes run. I couldn't spot a single person with salt on their shoes. A small amount of salt on some tire treads, wheel wells, etc. Zero mention of track grooming- in fact I don't recall it being mentioned well into the sixties.

Makes me glad the BLM isn't in charge of preserving ALL of our national treasures...