The European Invasion - Bonneville 2007
The Swiss Invades Bonneville
The Swiss Government went after 4 world records. It funded Team Swissperformance. The reason for the interest? It turns out they saw the movie The World’s Fastest Indian and decided to pack up go to take it to those Americans.
Thunder Bob interviews Markus Saegesser, a Swiss racer with two world records besides his name.
The Results
Class - 3000 A PBG - New record of 146.246
Class - 3000 APS PBG - New record of 156.508
The Movie
Based On One Hell Of A True Story - The World’s Fastest Indian is the life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle — a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.




