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The world\u2019s biggest racetrack, some 4,214 feet above sea level, is also the world\u2019s largest natural \u201cdynamometer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Located immediately east of the Nevada-Utah border town of Wendover, the vast, ancient lake bed is a stark, glistening white plain that was once covered by a body of water 135 miles wide by nearly 325 miles long. Much smaller today, the Bonneville Salt Flats remain an awe-inspiring geologic phenomenon where after a rainstorm full, 180-degree, vivid rainbows appear. 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