VOLUME ISSUE SEPTEMBER , P109
C
.S. Lewis said, "Adven-
tures are never fun
when you're having
them." And he might have
been talking about land-speed
racing in Bolivia. Packing up
a World Championship event
and hauling it to the Andean
plateau in the middle of South
America is no small task.
Simply getting to the starting
line of the 15-mile salt surface
is more than half the battle,
and by then, the war has only
just begun. Limited resources,
blistering cold, searing altitude
and electrical gremlins that
only seem to crop up on the
Salar continue to wage war on
progress, but in the end, there
simply is no substitute for the
perfect track to aim for world-
record speed.
It's the call of the rock-solid
15-mile track that brought Mike
Akatiff and the Top 1 Oil-
backed Ack Attack team, and
Al Lamb's Dallas Honda team
back to the Salar five years
after the last FIM Land Speed
World Records event took place
in Bolivia. After attempts in
both 2017 and 2018, these two
teams were still seeking major
milestones, for the Ack Attack
streamliner, the 400-mph bar
-
rier and the outright two-wheel
land speed World record, and
for Lamb and his turbocharged
CBR1000RR, the 300-mph
barrier to become the world's
fastest sit-on motorcycle.
SALAR
