Soap Box Teams
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#SB1. Matthew Harrison
GO BIG OR GO HOME ! 
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#SB2. Simon Harrison
IF IN DOUBT FLAT OUT ! (Sorry Colin!) 
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#SB3. Brian Bennett
I am 69 years old , am a volunteer driver for the NHS, I race at Harewood last year , and have spent the winter building a new bogie , and had a couple of wins this year , I don't have a team, just poor old me. 
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#SB4. Will Feather - Gravity Rash
'the only BHP I need is Big Hill Power' 
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#SB5. Hartley Racing - Bruce Wetherill
'Race it, Break it, Fix it, Repeat' 
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#SB6. Roland Wheatley
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#SB7. James Jones - hearingdogs.org.uk
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#SB8. David Cobb
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#SB9. Fred Rowlands
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#SB10. Dean Lancashire - Bolt & Nutters
We have three Soapbox virgins running for SB 2018 but we are the Bolt & Nutters. Looking forward to it, hoping not to bin it on the first corner and look like complete muppets! 
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#SB11. Glen Adams
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#SB12. Brent Carlin
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#SB13. Andy Northfield - Fastlane Displays
Fastlane Displays Ltd will be running in the 2018 Harewood Soapbox Derby to raise awareness for Mental Health. Team leader Andy Northfield is hoping to raise money to help the Charitable Trust Jonathan’s Voice. This cause is very close to his heart as it was founded after his cousin Jonathan McCartney tragically took his own life in October 2017. As well as raising awareness of mental health in the workplace and beyond the trust raises money for other charities that support people in their time of need. The biggest killer of men in mid-life is not soapbox racing it’s Suicide. Mental health can affect anyone at any time of life however it's on the rise in mid-life men. For more information or to make a donation please visit: www.jonathansvoice.org.uk 
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#SB14. Richard Burton
We are a father and daughter joint effort team. Dad, Richard, does all the effort and Katie hangs around the joint. On race days near to home a motley crew of helpers turn up to provide some muscle, encouragement and sausage sandwiches. Luckily consuming bacon butties and pork pies actually makes us go faster – see us in the pits for an explanation provided you bring calorie laden comestibles 
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#SB15. Chris Webster
Toothless was originally built at home in the Scottish Borders in 2015 and is ever evolving. I have taken part in the Border Bogie Challenge at Denholm and Hawksland Hill Run near Glasgow and had success in both events. Looking forward to my first time competing at Harewood. 
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#SB16. Stephen Thomas
Well as i don't get paid to do this it makes us all amateur but if there are classes i would be in the pro. 
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#SB17. Mike Jennings - TAD 1
TAD 1 was originally designed and built as an apprentice project at Lambert Engineering Limited for our local charity race at Windmill Hill during 2013. The team of six apprentices aided by senior mentor Mike Jennings built TAD 1 in approximately six weeks. One company philosophy at Lamberts is ‘right first time’ and TAD 1 has proved to be just that securing multiple wins from the same basic design and layout. Only three subtle changes have taken place and they are:- rack and pinion steering, brakes on all four wheels and seating position of the driver. TAD 1 has been photographed with Guy Martin on board when he was researching for the soapbox world speed record and also with MP Nick Clegg when he visited Lamberts during a nation apprentice week initiative. 
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#SB18. Mike Jennings - TAD 2
That keen they are running two teams. 
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#SB19. Simon Graeme
A team of 4 Yorkshire-based mechanics, all working at Simon Graeme’s Auto Service Centre. Our first soap box race was back in 2015 and we finished in 2nd place! After a couple of modifications to our soap box this year, with Simon at the wheel we’re hoping to go one place better in our second run out. 
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#SB20. Jono Searby
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#SB21. Adrian Preston (SpecKart)
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#SB22. Edward White (SpecKart)
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#SB23. Josh Firth (SpecKart)
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#SB24. Jim Croisdale - Stay Racy
"Putting the Depravity into Gravity!" 
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#SB25. Iain Rooney - Team Tooket
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#SB26. Mark Forster
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#SB27. Richard Derrick
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#SB28. Pickard Events
"It's downhill from here!" 
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#SB29. Stuart Hinchcliffe
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#SB30. Ian McIntosh
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#SB31 Rexroth Bosch Group
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#SB32. Nicky Miles - Calders & Grandidge
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#SB33. - Tongai Maregedze
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#SB34. - Peter Williams
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#SB35 - Gareth Yeomans
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#SB36 - Ben Cree
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#SB37 - Terry Cree
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#SB38 - Skye’s Rocket’
We are complete novices at Soap Box racing but we are hoping to raise money for Candlelighters children’s cancer charity at Leeds in memory of a little girl called Skye. 
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#SB39 - Tom Jones - TJX Europe
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SpecKart Teams
#SK1. Andy Ash - Pocket Rockets - Centa Bavaria
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#SK2. Gerard Quinn
We’ve picked up a few trophies along the way… Which may have put us in your ‘Pro’ category… But this year at Harewood, we’re going to be driving a ‘Fun’ cart… We call them ‘Spec Karts’ ! 
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#SK3. Team Devil "Rogues 1" - Craig Debrick
Go hard or Go home 
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#SK4. Team Devil "Specky" - Ben Debrick
Just Go home / The Devil is in the Detail 
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#SK5. Team Tortoise - Julian Hinchcliffe - Bumble Bee
This is our 4th year of competition (2nd year at Harewood) and our 1st year with 2 carts. 
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#SK6. Team Tortoise - Toby Hinchcliffe - Barricade
We are still trying to improve and not end up in the hedges, if Toby crashes anymore we are going to start getting charged for replacement fence panels. 
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#SK7. Roderick Kent - Team Black Dog
'et ulterius descendendo' - (Onwards and Downwards) 
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#SK8. Dom Quinn
Dom Quinn has been driving gravity racers for some years now, as part of the “Where’s me Spanners?” team. He was the youngest competitor at the famous ‘Cairngorm Extreme’ events. This year he will be competing in his own SpecKart as “Where’s me Scalpel?” (He is in his final year studying medicine at Keele university hoping to become an orthopaedic surgeon.) His racing career has been marked by some spectacular crashes, but last year at Harewood he was driving the SpecKart of Andy Ash… He was un-beatable and easily the fastest Speckart on the hill. He was unanimously voted winner of the 1st SpecKart ‘Head to Head’ trophy. 
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#SK9. Doug Anderson - Bodrodz USA extreme Gravity Team
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#SK10. Donnie Schoettler - Bodrodz USA extreme Gravity Team
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#SK11. Mark Roberts - Team 1
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#SK12. Mark Roberts - Team 2
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Gravity Bike Riders
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#GB1. Richard Thompson
"We're here for a good time not a long time" 
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#GB2. Sam Phillips
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#GB3. Liam Hill
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#GB4. Zack Leader - Gravity Bike HQ
“a different kind of stupid" 
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#GB5. Iain Round - IR Racing
"Steady run down, yeah?" 
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#GB6. - Paul Janson
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#GB7. - Justin Greaves
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#GB8. - Derek Taylor
"Team Taylor, Swift!" 
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#GB9. Neil Taylor
“No gear and no idea” 
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#GB10. Danny Floyde - partisan speed squad
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#GB11 - Stef Cree
"Go fast...." 
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#GB12 - Jay Wood
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Side Car Teams
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#SC1. Stephen Hall - Team Weasel
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#SC2. Paul Cross
From the alpine regions of East Anglia this father and son team know only one way to get down a hill: flat out. In their second season of racing, EAMR will definitely put on a show in the pursuit of style as well as speed. 
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#SC3. Geoff Burton - Team Applehead Gravity Sports
"Lets get it sideways!" 
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