Red Bull Soap Box

The Red Bull Soap Box Derby was here but is now gone. The crowds at the event made me wish that I had left earlier to watch man's attempt at art and speed burn down the a hill in Kitsilano. The course contained a hill, for momentum, a jump for air and style points, and cross over section, for hair raising crashes. I also wanted to test out how fast camera could react to said hair raising speed.Ok now that I have talked this event up there were not any crashes that I saw as I was half way up the hill. The Jump acted more as speed bump creating possibly 1-2 inches of air. Although there was on crash that involved a turkey racer which was caused from inexperience at the wheel or the driver possibly eating the shell of the vehicle as the smell of paint fumes and sun surprisingly smell like turkey. In retrospect I do not know if paint fumes and sun smell like turkey it is just a leap with in my imagination.


Here are some photo's of the day's events:

Jon Lenin: living in a submarine.

Celebrity sighting (maybe not): Gordon Campbell shows how he beats the carbon tax

The Shark: this soapbox racer was the well done and carried alot of speed, probably added weight in the nose i.e. Cool Runnings. But there was nothing cool about this race as the Great white shark racer won hands down.

The closest race of the day:

All in all I enjoyed my afternoon in the sun but left feeling that the soapbox races were a hyped up to be something that they were not. Overall my goal was to see how fast my camera could react and found out that about 3 frames a second is not that fast and that timing is everything. But hey it was beautiful afternoon to shoot some photo's which beat sitting inside and watching reruns of the sitcoms of years past.