Bonneville Salt Flats Bill Rishel and two local businessmen tested the suitability of the salt for driving on by taking a Pierce-Arrow onto the surface of the flats. A railway line across the Bonneville Salt Flats was completed in 1910, marking the first permanent crossing. The first land speed record was set there in 1914 by Teddy Tetzlaff. Entertainment filmed at the salt flats include portions of "Knight Rider", "Warlock", "Independence Day" (1996) and , "SLC Punk", "Cremaster 2" from "Cremaster Cycle", "The Brown Bunny", "The World's Fastest Indian", "Gerry", "The Tree of Life", "Top Gear", "" and "". Furthermore, the Pontiac Bonneville
Utah Salt Ratz Utah Salt Ratz Utah Salt Ratz were an American soccer team founded in 2003 that was a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid. The team folded in 2004, when the then-new Real Salt Lake franchise joined the first division, Major League Soccer. They played their home games at Juan Diego Catholic High School and Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, and were hugely successful in their brief history, finishing first overall in the NPSL regular season in 2003 and winning the NPSL Championship title in 2004. The Utah Salt