Picture of a BAR F1 car on the Salt Flats.
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BAR is planning to set the Formula 1 Land Speed Record at the Bonneville
Salt Flats in October.
The team aims to break the 400kph barrier (more than 248mph) with a
specially-modified BAR-Honda 007 driven by South African tester Alan van
der Merwe.
BAR has labelled the project Bonneville400 and has already conducted
shakedown tests with a more conventional 007 on the Utah plains.
"From a driver's perspective it is a challenge because it has never been
done with an F1 car before," said van der Merwe, who drove the car on the
salt flats in August.
"The car is not designed to drive on the salt flats and it makes for a very
different and unpredictable ride."
BAR will run the car, which will still comply with the current regulations
but will built to cut down drag significantly, for seven days from October
4 as it attempts the record.
"There is a degree of madness about it," said the team's sporting director
Gil de Ferran.
"When you go to Bonneville it's easy to see why people used to think the
world was flat, that you could fall off the end.
"To imagine a Formula 1 car running here is bizarre, totally offbeat - but
that's what this is all about."
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