No Land Speed Record attempt for Guy

The much-anticipated Triumph Motorcycles Rocket Streamliner land speed record attempt won’t go ahead today due to adverse weather conditions, which have led to poor salt conditions.

Keep up with our live feed from the Bonneville here.

 

Triumph released an official statement, which read:

“Following a course inspection, Triumph Motorcycles has confirmed that it has postponed running for today due to the course conditions.

“While the track conditions continue to improve, this afternoon’s course inspection showed that there are still areas at the upper limits of the eleven mile salt flat course that are still too wet to safely undertake any runs at present.

“Regular course inspections will continue to be conducted by the team throughout the rest of the afternoon and preparations have begun to ready everything for tomorrow’s scheduled runs.”

Matt Markstaller, Crew Chief and Triumph Infor Rocket Streamliner designer, said: “To perform at this level we need the optimum conditions – and today we didn’t quite have the course conditions we needed. We will be back on the salt tomorrow morning ready to go and we’re looking forward to getting underway with our record attempt.”

We’ll bring you a further update as soon as we’re back on the Bonneville Salt Flats in the morning.

 

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