SALT OF THE EARTH COMP LAKE GAIRDNER 2016
“THIS YEAR SOME 90 BIKES TOOK PART, SPLIT ROUGHLY BETWEEN LATE MODELS AND EARLY GIRLS”
THIS was my third trip to Lake Gairdner, the enormous 160km-long dry salt lake in the South Australian outback, for Speed Week; five days of flat-chat land speed racing in one of the most isolated and spectacular places on Earth.
My first experience was in 2003 when, as editor of Street Machine, I was invited to race Norm Hardinge’s 1934 Ford. I managed to get in my 125mph qualifying pass before Norm’s co-driver Wayne Belot blew it up at just over 190mph to bring my salt-racing career to an early close.
