What a fun weekend. Friday afternoon spouse and I walked around the neighborhood checking out preparations for Saturday's Red Bull Soap Box Derby in Mt Adams. The picture below of spouse checking out the cars in the pits Friday evening pretty much says it all. He smiled like that all weekend. The weather was perfect, cars were just greatand an unbelievable crowd (estimated around 30,000 people). The big tv's helped a lot. Only bleachers could have really improved the view.
Car #11 "Gorillas N'Roses" sponser was Gorilla Glue which is headquartered in Cincinnati Ohio. This team has an interesting bio on the www.redbullsoapboxusa.com I don't believe this car crashed but I do remember it being pretty slow.
Pictured above are the masses in front of Car #6 "When In Gnome" pit. The pits opened at 11AM Saturday. The Gnomes were a surpise early fast car clocking in at 36 seconds for the 1/4 mile race.Pictured below is #15 Mummy's Revenge Team.
Above is Barbie and her car the Barbie Bandit car #32.
Above is Barbie and her car the Barbie Bandit car #32. The Flintstones car #33 Yabba Dabby Doo is pictured below.
Next is a picture of Pebbles, Barney and Fred Flintstone from Team Yabba Dabba Doo crossing the intersection of Hatch and Louden streets.
Batman and Robin in the Batmobile in the pits before the race with the Joker, Cat Woman and Bat Girl. Below is a picture of Team 24 "The Adam West Experience" walking up the start of the course on St Gregory Street.
Below is Car #31 The Blowhole.
Above picture shows starting stage where each team performed skit and then pushed car and driver to start.
Above picture is a close up of Car #37 Sinners, Sailors and a Saucy Wench. This was a neighborhood collaboration (note the Mt Adams Yacht Club Burgee) and was a replica of the #49 Mt Adams Incline Trolley Car. Unfortunately, they lost a wheel during the race. Below is a picture of the back of this team's uniform. Also an interesting bio on the Red Bull site.
Below is another Cincinnati entry... #19 When Pigs Fly.
Next is #34 Pastrana on Rye followed by # 28 Catch the Red Eye.
Above picture shows how crowded. Spouse and I were amazed that people actually survived watching from on top of this brick garage on Wareham. Really would not have believed this structure could have supported this much weight.
The next picture shows the view from inside car # 3 The Brick House. This car later crashed.
Lots of little kids had a much better view from on top of their parents shoulders.
Next is a picture of Pebbles, Barney and Fred Flintstone from Team Yabba Dabba Doo crossing the intersection of Hatch and Louden streets.Batman and Robin in the Batmobile in the pits before the race with the Joker, Cat Woman and Bat Girl. Below is a picture of Team 24 "The Adam West Experience" walking up the start of the course on St Gregory Street.
Below is Car #31 The Blowhole.
Above picture shows starting stage where each team performed skit and then pushed car and driver to start.
Above picture is a close up of Car #37 Sinners, Sailors and a Saucy Wench. This was a neighborhood collaboration (note the Mt Adams Yacht Club Burgee) and was a replica of the #49 Mt Adams Incline Trolley Car. Unfortunately, they lost a wheel during the race. Below is a picture of the back of this team's uniform. Also an interesting bio on the Red Bull site.
Below is another Cincinnati entry... #19 When Pigs Fly.Next is #34 Pastrana on Rye followed by # 28 Catch the Red Eye.
Above picture shows how crowded. Spouse and I were amazed that people actually survived watching from on top of this brick garage on Wareham. Really would not have believed this structure could have supported this much weight.
The jumbo-tron TV's really helped to follow the race. Below is the tv at 2nd turn intersection of Louden and Hatch. It was cool the race time's were posted on the tv's too!
The next picture shows the view from inside car # 3 The Brick House. This car later crashed.
Lots of little kids had a much better view from on top of their parents shoulders.Judges scores (for creativity, etc) were posted on the big tv's.
The winner was Taco Bull Car #35 with a time of 34 seconds for 1/4 mile course. Team Taco Bull is from Ontario Canada and has participated in at least one other Red Bull Race (St Louis 2006).
After this race spouse and I headed to Mt. Lookout for a 5 K race (I walked) called the Reggae Run. I'll post that story later. It was a fun Saturday.
The winner was Taco Bull Car #35 with a time of 34 seconds for 1/4 mile course. Team Taco Bull is from Ontario Canada and has participated in at least one other Red Bull Race (St Louis 2006).
The picture below of Taco Bull was taken in Wreak Alley.
The red kidney's behind car #35 belong to car #16 Urine it to Win It (sponsered by The Kidney Foundation.)
After this race spouse and I headed to Mt. Lookout for a 5 K race (I walked) called the Reggae Run. I'll post that story later. It was a fun Saturday.
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