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Ted Gansberger set the top bike speed of the week. 183.879 mph on a
turbocharged 1980 Honda CB750F.
Bonneville Speed Week
Guthrie sets pace
-on Salt Flats
By Dorde Woodruff
WENDOVER, UT, SEPT. 15·20
Motorcyclists set nine new records at a shortened Bonneville Speed Week, a s~anty crop.
But Salt Flats racers were lucky to run at all,
considering that the last two years were the
wettest in Utah history, and
that the area was flooded those
two entire years. The closed,
low-lying basin which is Bon-
30
neville nOl'll1ally dries out by June
from winter rai'ns and the consequent
flooding, but this year it was just
barely dry in time LO be prepared for
the meet.
The course was looking good at
tech time on S
