India's 1st Red Bull Soapbox Race

Soapbox or gravity racer is the race where homemade cars powered by gravity, race each other down the twists and turns... The car doesn't have engines, gas, batteries and uses only human power.. The construction can be of any shape and material, provided they weigh less than 80kg and compile with the dimension limits. That's, less than 6ft wide, 7ft tall, less than 20ft in length and 7in or more from ground. They will be given a push to get off the ramp. The teams will be evaluated based on speed, creativity and showmanship.

After watching so many promos on TV for more than 3 months, we planned to attend this event... The race was last Dec, at Mount Mary Road, Bandra. One of my cousins joined us this time.. Wondering if we would get parking at the venue, we parked our car near Leelavathi Hospital and my cousin took us through those narrow lanes of Bandra, which would reach us directly to Mount Mary church. Its almost a km walk and we somehow  managed to reach on time dragging our legs...

As we entered from back stage, we got to checkout the participants busy with their preparations... The event started off with the carnival...

Jugdges Cricketer BS Sandhu, Malini of MissMalini.com and Kunal Vijaykar

 Host Cyrus Broacha, started the guest soapboxes of HT, History channel, Red FM and few more

 Then drew in Ramona Arena, in her Redbull mini cooper

Followed by Imran Khan and Vishal Bharadwaj to promote their movie Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola with their Gulabo soapbox

Finally here come the contestant soapboxes... Each team were given a min to perform before they start off with the race. Then, they were given a push to get off the ramp, the contestant would reach the final goal crossing the twists, turns and hassles. The best and funniest part of the race is, due to their low weight they tend to roll down at the first ramp itself.. 

Team Feni Talks

All women Team Don't call me Cute

Team Hot Head Ironz

Team Harleen

Team Innovators

Team Naughty Pirates

Team Pune Stealth Bombs

Team Vada Pav 

Another Vada Pav

Team Lather Kings

Team Rath Wrath

Team Crank Heads

Team One Way Down

The Death Racers

Team Star Wars

Team Ruparel Roackers

 Then were few awesome bike stunts, flag offed by actor and VJ, Rannvijay Singh .. 

 More Bollywood celebs

Harshad Warsi with family

Arunoday Singh

Lisa Haydon

It was already 3:30 and there were lot more soapboxes to go, so we thought of leaving. On the way visited Mount Mary Church and headed back home.

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