Last Thursday (30 June), Rookie Supercar driver, Broc Feeney, together with City of Melbourne Councillor, Jamal Hakim, announced that the Red Bull Billy Cart Race is re-joining the Soapbox calendar as Melbourne's people-powered racing event; known as 'the Grand Prix of Billy Cart events'.
Suzuki have partnered with Red Bull for the race - taking place on December 3 - where the winning team will drive home in a brand new Brisk Blue Suzuki Jimny!
In a first for the Red Bull Billy Cart Race, participating teams will have the chance to upgrade from a Billy Cart powered by themselves to a real car powered by an engine.
Suzuki Australia Marketing Manager – Automotive, Robert Rosengarten said, "At Suzuki, we live and breathe 'For Fun's Sake'. We celebrate the fun of being a 'driver' and when the opportunity presented itself to partner with both Red Bull and their Billy Cart Race, we realised that it could only be downhill from here…pun intended! Our brands share many synergies. Everything we do aims to put smiles on faces, and we are very excited to not only be awarding the winning team a Suzuki Jimny, but to also be entering our own factory team, racing our newly built cart dubbed the 'Jimny Really Lite'."
Registrations are now open. Plus, you get bonus points for being funny. NO, seriously! Both amateur and professional teams are invited to design, build, and pilot their own gravity powered racers along a downhill racetrack on Lansdowne Street in Melbourne CBD.
The Red Bull Billy Cart Race challenges the most fearless, fun-loving, and foolhardy teams to prototype and create the wackiest of rides and then race them down an obstacle course for their chance at glory in the nation's most prestigious non motor racing event.
This is the third event hosted in Australia following the Melbourne 2004 and Sydney 2015 Red Bull Billy Cart Races. And we're proud to bring it home to Melbourne where it started in Australia.
Since its first ever Billy Cart Race held in Brussels in 2000, Red Bull has since hosted over 40 races globally. Often referred to as the 'Red Bull Soapbox', these events have spanned from Australia to South Africa. From Helsinki to St. Louis. And from Jamaica to Italy.
Over the years, vehicles have ranged from realistic replicas to a giant corn on the cob. Other designs have included: a piano, a giant baby carriage, a rodeo clown, a jail cell, and the Golden Gate Bridge. So, an even bigger banana or a tinier Sydney Harbour Bridge is the limit!
Registrations
Application for the Event opens at 12:00 am on 30th June 2022. Applications close at 11:59pm on 14th August 2022
To enter, submit your design, team name and team members on the Red Bull Billy Cart Race website. 50 teams will be selected.
Applicants will be notified on Monday August 22nd if they have been selected. Teams have until December 1st to build their cart and get it to the race-track in Melbourne.
Registrations - www.redbull.com/billycartrace
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Suzuki Australia
Suzuki Australia Pty Ltd was founded in 1980 by parent company Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) and currently markets its vehicles in Australia through a network of approximately 90 automotive dealerships and numerous other motorcycle and ATV distributors.
With global headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan, SMC was founded in 1909 and currently operates in 210 countries and regions. In 2019, SMC sold more than 3 million new cars globally.