Bonneville Up To Speed Podcast

Tony Thacker is our guest on this episode of the Bonneville Up To Speed Podcast, in an interview recorded on a windy night in Wendover, Utah at the 2023 SCTA Bonneville Speed Week.    Tony is living …

New Zealander Burt Munro is a very famous motorcycle land speed racer, and was the subject of a film called the World's Fastest Indian.  We recently had the pleasure of meeting Burt's granddaughter R…

Back in 1963, Craig Breedlove famously set the world land speed record in the Spirit Of America, returning the title to the United States from Englishman John Cobb.  And although Breedlove went on to…

Not many people can say they've set the record for piston-powered, wheel-driven streamliners, but not many people are Danny Thompson!   Coming from a rich racing heritage started by his famous father…

On this episode of the Bonneville Up To Speed Podcast, Kevin Oeste chats with Wayne Jesel in the RacingJunk.com booth at the 2022 PRI Show! They talk about the 2023 Jesel land speed racing program, …

Aaron Brown and the Garage Shop team are constantly building and racing cool cars, and we spent a few minutes with Aaron at the 2022 PRI Show on the Bonneville Up To Speed Podcast to hear about their…

Jason Line lives a high-performance life, having experience as an NHRA Pro Stock racer, engine builder, and Bonneville racer.  Today, he's working on the Jesel Equal 8 engine for the 2023 Bonneville …

We spent some time chatting with Chris Raschke at the ARP display at the 2022 PRI Show in Indianapolis learning about what it's like working in an awesome engine shop like Duttweiler Performance, bei…

The 2022 S.C.T.A. Bonneville Speed Week was unfortunately washed out from some big rains, but that didn't mean land speed racers and enthusiasts didn't get a chance to hang out.    We met Grant Potte…

On this episode of the Bonneville Up To Speed Podcast, automotive super-enthusiast Zach Straits shares how a building material salesman ends up behind the wheel of one of the most recognizable land s…

Aaron Brown has enjoyed a great career working as a builder for some of the best names in NASCAR, but once he contracted Salt Fever, he was compelled to bring his experiences to the salt.   From the …

Dan Parker is not the kind of guy who sits around waiting for cool stuff to happen to him.   A lifelong racer and machinist, Dan's racing days could have been cut short after a tragic drag racing cra…

Gale Banks is no stranger to speeding across the dust of El Mirage and the Bonneville Salt Flats.  He's been pushing the limits on land speed cars since the late 1950s, campaigning at least 13 land s…

Wayne and Dan Jesel not only run one of the most successful and innovative valve train and engine parts businesses, but they also put their parts to the test on the salt at Bonneville. On this episod…

Scott Clark has been tuning electronic fuel injection vehicles since the tools were first made available to enthusiasts. Today, he applies his experience, understanding, and tuning knowledge to some …

Land speed racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats is a unique sport with its own set of challenges.   On this episode of the Bonneville Up To Speed Podcast, Kevin Oeste chats with Steve Watt of Maxwell …