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there was one big problem: the
Ack Attack had yet to arrive. Is-
sues with shipping, customs and
border crossings had the Ack At-
tack streamliner held up while the
clock was ticking. The perfect
salt that they had traveled to this
foreign land to find was stretched
out before them—a platinum
threshold to the 400-mph bar-
rier begging to be crossed—but
already there were new challeng-
es facing the team. The remote
location, the 12,000-foot altitude,
cold temperatures and limited
daylight would plague their three
precious remaining days on the
Salar de Uyuni, which would end
without the team achieving a new
world-record run.
While the "salt gremlins"
prevented the Ack Attack from
Preparing for launch, the Ack Attack gets into position.
