You can't tell where the sky stops and the ground starts - it's like being on a great big mirror.' 'It was almost as if you were walking on the clouds.

'You know, if it wasn't such a bummer and so deflating, it would actually be about the most beautiful thing you'd ever seen,' Marsh told KSL.com on Monday, describing the scene at the Bonneville Salt Flats this weekend. It left racers who came to the West Desert to break speed records, like Marsh, disappointed but also in awe of Mother Nature. It ultimately forced the Southern California Timing Association and Bonneville Nationals Incorporation to cancel this year's events that were originally slated to run from Saturday to Friday. Monsoonal moisture pushed storms over the West Desert on Saturday, drastically changing the salt flat surface. His team, Catzilla 2, was planning to test out the alterations they had made to their vehicle as they sought to get it traveling up to 300 mph.

Marsh, a Salt Lake City-based coachbuilder and racer, was one of many racers from across the world who descended on the natural wonder in Tooele County for the annual Speed Week, a decades-old tradition of high-speed time trials on what's considered one of the best high-speed land surfaces in the world. SALT LAKE CITY - The racing conditions were fairly good when Jason Marsh arrived at the Bonneville Salt Flats on Friday.

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