Dead dry claypan eyes fast track to fame GEOFF Morton was just a boy in the 1960s when rakish British adventurer Don Campbell landed on the giant claypan adjoining his family's outback cattle station, searching for a track to set the world land-speed record. Campbell rejected the Bilpa Morea, 100km north of Birdsville in western Queensland, as too soft, setting his sights instead on the hard salt flats of South Australia's Lake Eyre.