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  • Maine State Soap Box Derby 2013 Race Date Is June 22nd In Houlton ME.

    Maine Soap Box Derby Families Race Cars In Friendly Spirited Competition.
    Maine Soap Box Derby Tech Day And Then Big State Race June 22nd In Houlton ME

    Over seventeen years the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby has grown to the point of hosting the state race.

    On an engineered hill designed for safety, speed and ease in setting up the course. For boys and girls from all over Maine now to learn, feel, experience “the thrill of the hill”.

    Downhill racing with a kit car that the driver with mom, dad, Uncle Bob, or the neighbor kid that is pretty talented with wrenches. Anyone that likes to be around the energy of excited kids. That want to get behind the wheel. To not have to wait until they are sixteen to drive a car.

    If you are a business in Maine looking for a good wholesome family sporting event to sponsor a car, speak up.

    Raise your hand. Get signed up. Have a contest in your area of Maine to select the driver that wants to represent you in the Maine State Soap Box Derby local race in June. For a chance to win, advance to the world series of downhill soap box derby racing in Akron Ohio in July.

    The cars last, get re-raced in other locals and at rallies around the country. To win points to head to Akron Ohio’s race course that is every kid’s dream. To compete on the world level with the cream of the crop, best of the bunch, pick of the pack car racers. To meet new friends, their families and to compete.

    Skills, determination, patience like anything in life you are passionate about needed in derby racing too.

    Fire in your belly. Not the kind from food that just does not agree with you. We’re talking the spark, magic when the entire family, community is behind and beside you cheering the driver on. As they advance heat after heat in the selection of a winner to represent their local, state on the national level. No matter what the weather, the luck of the heat bracket race pairing or how much time was spent tweaking the stock, super stock or masters race car the nights before the event.

    More information about the Maine State Soap Box Derby Program, The Race in Houlton Maine June 22nd, 2013. The sound of cars being released Topside on the long, smooth, fast Derby Hill race course, the rumble of the wheels and another season is approaching.

    Watch a few Maine Soap Box Derby racing videos.

    Maine, kids count, family comes first. Our enjoyment is always somehow generated with the excitement, energy of our youth in Maine. The neat place with the space and the way life should be. Learn more about Maine. Come visit, sample down to Earth simple, real, healthy, fun.

    I’m Andrew Mooers, ME Real Estate Broker / REALTOR
    207.532.6573
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  • Maine State Soap Box Derby 2012 Video

    This Year's 17th Annual Northern Maine State Race Of Soap Box Derby Dedicated To Bill Weber
    Bill Weber, Zoo Crew Of The Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Gang

    This year’s Northern Maine Soap Box Derby race, the 17th annual running dodged rain drops.

    The weather cooperated to get the boys and girls from around the state of Maine up and down the hill. To complete heats to advance to create the pair of stock and super stock winners. To head to Akron Ohio to represent Maine in the All American Soap Box Derby world series of down hill racing.

    Images from this year’s 2012 Maine state derby race held in Houlton Maine, Aroostook County. Watch the videos and see the “thrill of the hill”. Derby racing is friendly, spirited, and teaches kids about mechanics of a car. Building one, maintaining one and along with parents, Uncle Bob, Aunt Sue or a big brother, sister, how to tweak. How to win and lose gracefully. To have fun with the learning curve like anything else in life worth pursuing.

    Fine tuning and developing respect for the gravity derby racing car.

    To get to the bottom quicker understanding the laws of physics, need for consistency. The luck of the heat sheet picks, compensating for the weather. And good sportsmanship, as this year’s memorial to Zoo Crew’s Bill Weber pointed out loud and clear to all at the 17th annual race.

    Maine 2012 Soap Box Derby Racing Videos.

    Maine, small town proud, family oriented. Kids know how to have fun. Adults do everything they need to on the local level to provide the stage. And to enjoy seeing the change from fear of the hill to the thrill, the grin of that long engineered two lane vertical highway. As the derby cars released topside pick up speed. Race along the cones to the electric eye timer at the end. Before everyone screams “brake”!

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
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    207.532.6573
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