Festival of Speed Soapbox

[greenpower dude reloaded]

I just wondered if there is anybody on here that visited the Festival of Speed back in the days of the soapbox cars and had any pictures of any of the cars that competed in the soapbox gravity race. I'm particularly interested in the fully enclosed cars but I would be interested in pictures of any of the soapbox cars.

Cheers

[benjabulle]

+1 I would be very interested by photos of the McLaren and Bentley soapbox, the Lotus also even if we can see photos on their site;

[flynfrog]

i would like to see them as well

[checkered]

Hi,

Here's an article, from a couple of years back, about soapbox CFD (Ford's entry):
http://www.cd-adapco.com/press_room/dyn ... r_fun.html
Ford EGGBox:
http://media.ford.com/newsroom/release_ ... ease=12264

Popular Science, fairly recent (notice the "view photos" link):
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/automotive ... drcrd.html

Here are a couple of pics of Bentley's challenger (year?):
http://www.mcp-group.com/rpt/rptnews_31.htm

Lotus, thankfully, has decent info of their soapboxes on their own website; and why not, the no-frills design principle is evident in their otherwise-than-gravity-powered cars, too:
http://www.grouplotus.com/generic/generic.php?page=303

A couple of concepts:
http://www.automobilemag.com/features/r ... ndex1.html

A news release from QinetiQ, ca.2004:
http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/ne ... dwood.html

A polystyrene soapbox?
http://www.eps.co.uk/newsletters/2002_3 ... racing.htm

Unisys & Visteon soapboxes:
http://keithclements.co.uk/motors/Soapbox/soapbox.htm

In the US, apparently there's something called "Extreme gravity racing", but it's all very vague on their website:
http://www.xgrtv.com/

[flynfrog]

i rember reading teh case study on the ford car now that you mention it

[greenpower dude reloaded]

Wow thanks for all of the links there checkered!!! anyone happen to have any pictures of the Mclaren?? i can't find any myself but I know it used to hold the course record at goodwood.

As for the XGR they had something on there website the other year about how the cars were gonna race down then... BACK UP??? could be interesting if anybody pulls it off!