The Red Bull Soapbox race returns to India this Sunday after an eight year gap. The third edition of the event will be held at Ramanaidu Studios, Hyderabad on March 3, 2024, with the race starting at 5pm. Team registrations for the race had opened last year and ended on November 15, 2023.
- 30 teams will participate in this year’s event
- Judges include Harith Noah and few others
Red Bull Soapbox Race: What exactly is it?
As reported by us earlier, Red Bull describes its soapbox race as the “pinnacle of non-motor-racing”, in typical tongue-in-cheek manner. These races are global events held on mainly city courses with the same concept. The previous two editions were held in Mumbai in 2012 and 2016.
Participants are local amateur entrants that need to build vehicles powered by gravity and leg muscles. The brakes and steering, however, need to be fully functional. The teams will have to build their racer, go to the top of a slope, and let gravity do its thing.
The event will be hosted by some of the popular comedians like Jordindian, Sahiba Bali, Rohan Joshi, Aaditya Kulshreshth aka Kullu, among others.
With over 3,300 registrations from over 23 states, 30 have been shortlisted to participate in this year’s event. Some of the teams participating are whimsically named Godlike, Homeys, Ourange, Juice Gang, S8UL Rocket, Lendibox and Tag Tank. The judges for the third edition include Harith Noah, Tania Sachdev, Ankit Panth, Manpreet Singh, Lalremsiami and Ocean Sharma, among others.
Autocar India News Desk
Unnatee Gidithuri
Suraj Viswanathan
