Bonneville Salt Flats • Southern California Timing Association officials have been busily preparing three courses on the Bonneville Salt Flats in anticipation of Speed Week.
The colorful annual event, which has been plagued by poor salt conditions and bad weather the past few years, will begin Saturday morning with inspections.
Time trials — which require two runs to record a record — may start as early as Saturday afternoon as speed enthusiasts from all over the world gather on the famous speedway east of Wendover and about 88 miles west of Salt Lake City.
SCTA spokesperson JoAnn Carlson said the number of pre-registered entries is up from 418 to 433 this year with cars and drivers from Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom pre-registered.