Spectators from around East Yorkshire flocked to watch last Saturday’s Humber Bridge Soapbox Derby, which raised over £9,000 for charity. 

29 teams took part in this year’s event, battling it out in the sunshine to win a range of prizes. The teams were a mixture of corporate entries and individuals:

• Team Snailspeed
• Speed to Perfection (Reckitt Benckiser)
• Gavetrex (Reckitt Benckiser)
• Pedi, Steady, Toe! (Reckitt Benckiser)
• Team Construction (Selby College)
• Duke Boys (Selby College)
• Crimson Dragons (Selby College)
• Associated British Ports (Associated British Ports)
• 1st Hibaldstow and Scawby Explorer Scouts
• Biffa Bullet (Biffa)
• Everquip Racing
• Ferry Flyers
• Toad in ‘Ole (Bradford Trinity College)
• Dark Star
• We Make Things Work!
• Swift Soapbox Speeders (Swift Caravans)
• Metallicar (Bloom Agency)
• Northern Scavengers
• Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo)
• Tad 1
• Specsavers Hessle (Specsavers)
• Scarborough Tec (Scarborough Tec College)
• Slimer’s Scream Machine
• Rudston Revolution
• The Bid Cheese
• Wakefield Girls’ High School
• SHTC Racers (South Holderness Technology College)
• Super Novus
• Mr Brown Boys

 

Local families enjoyed not only the thrills and spills of the racing, many enjoyed pop-up basketball and tennis provided by local charity Child Dynamix, a bite to eat from food vendors and even a wizz around the skateboard park.

The popular local Soapbox Derby is run by Smile and Hessle Town Council in association with the Humber Bridge Board. The event would not be possible without the support of sponsors Sargent Electrical, P&O Ferries, Specsavers Hessle and Tesco Extra Hull, who enable an event of this size to be staged in Hessle.

 

Competition on the day was fierce with some fantastic entries and an incredible effort from all teams, but last year’s overall winners, Tad 1, successfully held onto their crown, also winning Fastest Senior and Fastest Run of the Day. The full breakdown of prize winners was as follows:

Sponsors Choice Award: SHTC Racers (Team from South Holderness Tech College)

Fastest Corporate: Specsavers Hessle

Fastest Senior: Tad 1 (team from Lambert Engineering)

Overall Winner: Tad 1

Best Novelty/Themed: Slimer’s Scream Machine

Best Turned Out: Everquip

Fastest Junior: 1^st Hibaldstow & Scawby Explorer Scouts

Fastest Run of the Day: Tad 1

 

If you’d like to enter the 2018 Humber Bridge Soapbox Derby, please email ss@heysmilefoundation.org for further details.

All photos from 2017 teams are available to view on Facebook and you can keep updated on Twitter and Instagram too.