Hold on to your hats (or crash helmets!) – there will be a Soap Box Derby in Stone High Street as part of this year’s Stone Festival in June.
There are 27 events across the Festival week – a mix of old favourites and some great new additions like the Soap Box Derby, which looks like a fabulous new summer event for the town.
The Soap Box Derby takes place on Wednesday 8th June from 7pm and it looks like it’s going to be a fantastic night in the town centre!
Forty soap boxes will be hurtling down the High Street, going down a ramp to start, over a jump and through a chicane in a thrill-a-minute timed challenge. There are four categories, and each homemade soap box must carry three people:
- Male
- Female
- Junior (for under-18s)
- 150+ (a mixed team whose combined ages must be over 150!)
[box type=”info” ]Seventeen of the 40 places for the event have already been snapped up, so if you’d like to take part get in touch with organiser Grahame Neagus on 01785 814582 or email grahame@octavarium.co.uk[/box]
There will be prizes for the winners of each category, but it may not be the fastest soap boxes that claim the trophies. As part of the event, judges will be scoring each soap box for originality and all-round wackiness! Those scores – alongside the times – will determine the winners.
[box type=”shadow” ]Grahame said: “We always try to deliver new events to make Stone Festival exciting every year, and I think the Soap Box Derby will certainly be that. It’s going to be a fantastic summer event in the town centre.”[/box]
You can see the full programme and find out lots more about this year’s Stone Festival on the Festival website.
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