I regret to announce at Speed Week 2015
is canceled
the most we could find was two and a
quarter miles of salt that was suitable
for a safe race course if the wet salt
gets dry future events could be possible
fast cars need minimum three miles but
most need five miles of timing if
they’re going five miles two to three
miles shut down this is the stop Salt
Flats by their very nature are ephemeral
environment they can change just in
response to natural conditions very
rapidly you add in the impact of land
use mining racing freeway expansion
things like that and all of these things
are going to play a role in impacting
the environment this is the best salt
the problem with this course is it’s
only two miles but look how the salt
starting to perk up through that mud
it’s turn into white this could heal in
a year am i optimistic yeah we get this
little crust of soggy salt on the
surface but then what it’s exposing is
this underlying layer that’s this gypsum
sand with some clays and buds in there
and so that’s what does not make a good
racing surface I’ve been made aware that
the salt flats have been depleting and
that the race surface isn’t as good as
it was in the past so the dialogue is
also opened up where’d it go what
happened
will we ever race again we’re the racers
were caught in the middle we want to run
our race cars and we don’t want the
racetrack to go away we don’t think it’s
right and then in the name of potash
chemical sales to deplete it the BLM is
charged with protecting this resource as
a strong feeling that they’re not doing
a very good job of it
the Bureau of Land Management has
designated as an area of critical
environmental concern we take very
seriously the responsibility to manage
the salt flats in 2012 when we approve
the mining to continue it was with the
requirement that they replenish the sole
we’re confident the science shows that
the mining companies are not taking out
any more salt than we’re putting back we
believe that they’re putting back more
salt and they take out the mining
operation they’re extracting potassium
to make fertilizers for agriculture and
that has been going on for over a
hundred years they might argue on the
grand scheme of things do we need to be
feeding our global population or racing
cars the balances of sustainability and
land use and our it’s never black and
white right there’s always going to be
trade-offs that area is being used for
so many different things for recreation
for the racing for mining which is
totally in line with what the BLM is
mandated to do with their with their
land right multiple uses but some of
these uses are may be juxtaposed and
sort of counteracting each other it can
be very very difficult to say changes in
the salt flats are due to this one thing
right they’re all going to be due to all
of these different factors coming in
together but there are some key features
that we can look at to try to say well
what has the impact of mining been what
has the impact of racing been and that’s
part of what my group is trying to
really work out to understand how the
environment has changed but also what
are the drivers of that change
you
is canceled
the most we could find was two and a
quarter miles of salt that was suitable
for a safe race course if the wet salt
gets dry future events could be possible
fast cars need minimum three miles but
most need five miles of timing if
they’re going five miles two to three
miles shut down this is the stop Salt
Flats by their very nature are ephemeral
environment they can change just in
response to natural conditions very
rapidly you add in the impact of land
use mining racing freeway expansion
things like that and all of these things
are going to play a role in impacting
the environment this is the best salt
the problem with this course is it’s
only two miles but look how the salt
starting to perk up through that mud
it’s turn into white this could heal in
a year am i optimistic yeah we get this
little crust of soggy salt on the
surface but then what it’s exposing is
this underlying layer that’s this gypsum
sand with some clays and buds in there
and so that’s what does not make a good
racing surface I’ve been made aware that
the salt flats have been depleting and
that the race surface isn’t as good as
it was in the past so the dialogue is
also opened up where’d it go what
happened
will we ever race again we’re the racers
were caught in the middle we want to run
our race cars and we don’t want the
racetrack to go away we don’t think it’s
right and then in the name of potash
chemical sales to deplete it the BLM is
charged with protecting this resource as
a strong feeling that they’re not doing
a very good job of it
the Bureau of Land Management has
designated as an area of critical
environmental concern we take very
seriously the responsibility to manage
the salt flats in 2012 when we approve
the mining to continue it was with the
requirement that they replenish the sole
we’re confident the science shows that
the mining companies are not taking out
any more salt than we’re putting back we
believe that they’re putting back more
salt and they take out the mining
operation they’re extracting potassium
to make fertilizers for agriculture and
that has been going on for over a
hundred years they might argue on the
grand scheme of things do we need to be
feeding our global population or racing
cars the balances of sustainability and
land use and our it’s never black and
white right there’s always going to be
trade-offs that area is being used for
so many different things for recreation
for the racing for mining which is
totally in line with what the BLM is
mandated to do with their with their
land right multiple uses but some of
these uses are may be juxtaposed and
sort of counteracting each other it can
be very very difficult to say changes in
the salt flats are due to this one thing
right they’re all going to be due to all
of these different factors coming in
together but there are some key features
that we can look at to try to say well
what has the impact of mining been what
has the impact of racing been and that’s
part of what my group is trying to
really work out to understand how the
environment has changed but also what
are the drivers of that change
you
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