Red Bull Box Cart race returns to Sandton
SANDTON – Residents can expect adrenaline-fuelled box cart races on 16 September.
The Red Bull Box Cart Race is returning to Sandton which is the steepest, most exciting track of the year.
It promises to be some of the wildest legal street racing around and following the application phase, 80 teams have been shortlisted to compete in front of thousands of spectators.
The teams have eight weeks to build their handmade, non-motorised machines fuelled by sheer courage, the force of gravity and perhaps a little Red Bull. Experienced racers and amateurs are challenged to design and build dazzling box cart dream machines to compete against the clock in a downhill race.
Returning to Joburg after eight years, following on Soweto in 2010, this year’s race is the fifth SA edition and will be bigger and better than ever.
The race is an international event taking place across five locations this year, including Rome in Italy, Sofia in Bulgaria, Cincinnati in the US and Lisbon in Portugal.
The same rules apply everywhere: Teams are judged on speed, creativity, and showmanship. No engines, batteries, electricity or catapults are allowed.
What is allowed is unbridled imagination, charisma and of course, your bold and daring showmanship.
It’s not enough that it actually moves or crosses the finish line first. The judges are looking for the outrageous, the preposterous, the ostentatious. Anything but the ordinary.
The race is a free event for all participants and spectators, don’t miss the action on 16 September.
Details: www.redbullboxcartrace.com
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