This is a LSR event like no other with two bikes poised to go 300, a streamliner motorcycle to go 400 and a wheel driven car to go 500. This is not like a trip to Loring, Bonneville or Lake Gairdner. It is a pilgrimage to the wilderness in search of speed. Talk about commitment, the entry fee is $20,000. and that does not include shipping your racer or yourself. And risk, with no hospital or US level medical care like a flight to SLC. Last year Al & Ralph obtained amazing speeds and learned so much. The air is so thin the turbos could only generate about 12# of boost so I am sure they will have bigger units this year. But the big worry is tires. The run up to the timed mile could be 5-6 miles. The centrifugal loading on the tires for so long is far above anything attempted before. They know the risk, I wish them well with success. Thin air, low drag the magic elixir for more speed and these vehicles are already the most aero in the racing world. I wonder if there is anywhere higher one could run. Well it is more than 50 years since I walked it but the saddle connecting Kibo and Mawenzi comes to mind. This is a 16,000' dirt plain joining the two peaks of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania East Africa. A timed one mile flat course could be connected to sloping run ups. Is that legal? Just thinking outside the box. LSL