2009 Bonneville Nationals Streamliner
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...and we caught it as it passed through the 6-mile marker, chutes deployed, as it slowed from a 401.285-mph pass out the back door. Unfortunately, the Speed Demon crew was unable to make a backup pass to exceed the 358.536-mph record but managed to make it unofficially in the record books as the smallest cubic inch (299 ci) and the first turbocharged car to clock over 400 mph. They also won themselves coveted inclusion on the Hot Rod Top Time Trophy for the fastest one-way time at Speed Week, an award given since the very first Bonneville Nationals back in 1949. (Editor's note: The Poteet and Main crew returned to the Salt Flats in late September where they clocked a speed of 436.067 mph in the flying kilo.) View Related Article
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