Project Bonneville

Swissperformance and Castrol Power 1 go for the World Record!

In summer 2006, Ruedi Steck organised the preview of the film “THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN”, with Anthony Hopkins in the leading role.
The film tells the story of the legendary motorcyclist Burt Munro (1899-1978). He had to wait until he was over 60 years old before fulfilling his greatest wish – to take part in the Speedweeks. On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, he still holds a world record today!

In 1967 he achieved a speed of 295.44 km/h on the INDIAN from 1920 with a 950cc engine.

Inspired by the film and their own great sense of connection and experience in matters of speed, tuning and customising, Ruedi Steck and Markus Saegesser have founded the “Swissperformance goes for the World Record!” association. With a team – and Castrol Power 1 as the main sponsor – they will travel to Bonneville in September 2007 and aim to break 4 world records on the great salt lake!

Swiss Television SF is accompanying the whole project and producing a film about it for the DOK programme (52’).

current FIM world records (non-streamlined, for partly streamlined there are no world records in this class yet):

This requires an international racing licence from the world association (FIM)

as well as clearance by the Swiss national association (FMS)