VOL. 54 ISSUE 33 AUGUST 22, 2017 P91
and Serendipity
M
ike Akatiff and Rocky Robinson sat stunned before a stage of
Bolivian dignitaries, including the president himself, Evo Morales.
Multiple film crews including National Geographic and countless
South American news organizations muscled for space before him and
his crew, the Top 1 Ack Attack team, all trying to get shots of the fabled
Americans who had made the 5000-mile trek to Uyuni, Bolivia to race on
the biggest salt flat in the world. Bolivian pageantry unfolded all around
them in honor of the Top of the World Land Speed Trial, a colorful kickoff
for Bolivian Independence Day weekend on an otherwise bleached
landscape. The steady beat of drums matched the folk dancing of young
performers, adorned in the traditional bright colors of their country, while
Morales and his Bolivian ministers looked on.
FOUR INCREDIBLE TALES OF A LAND-SPEED RACING ADVENTURE IN BOLIVIA
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEAN TURNER
