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Maine Soap Box Derby Race Is June 22nd This Year.

Maine Soap Box Derby Is June 22nd this year.

Have a ride, signed up to race down Derby Hill in Houlton Maine?

The “Thrill of the Hill” happens again June 22nd, 2024 on Derby Hill in Community Park in Houlton Maine.

It’s year number 29 for the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby. Tech Day for new parents and drivers is May 18th at Derby Hill. Derby tech day helps teach car drivers and their support team about safety procedures. And an opportunity to order parts and for new races to test drive Derby Hill. Here’s the race course for down hill derby local and rally races.

Houlton Maine Soap Box Derby Hill Sketch When “Selling” A Piece To Local Volunteers, Contributors.

Houlton Maine’s local race on Derby Hill is the only venue if a boy or girl age 8 to 18 wants to compete in all of “Vacationland”.

Back in the 1990’s, there were five local race locations in Maine.

One of the big reasons the Houlton Maine derby committee continues the racing tradition is a specially engineered hill.

Derby Hill is fast, long and two lanes. Derby Hill has a run off area, a car return lane and a launch / storage garage at the top.

Safety Cones On Run Off Area Of Derby Hill. Houlton ME Race Largest In USA 5 Years Running.

Ease of setting up a safe course for the local annual race and for spring/fall rallies. Derby Hill is one sweet set up and kids love to race down it. Lights for night racing, guard rails in place, easy car return lane.

To keep a soap box derby program vibrant and year after year up and running means build a hill.

Taking over a street logistics and set up, tear down are too labor intensive. And none of us derby diehard volunteers are getting any younger

Check them out.

Have you watched a few Northern Maine Soap Box Derby race videos?

Reach out with questions, let’s get your young derby drivers signed up to compete in the state of Maine race June 22nd, 2024.

There are existing cars to slide behind the wheel or consider buying a new stock, super stock or master kit.

Here’s the address to order parts, a car, anything soap box derby related.

Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Race Houlton Maine

The soap box derby program in Maine teaches kids a lot.

How to assemble a car from scratch following instructions . The fun of derby program and good sportsmanship along with the science and engineering that goes into gravity downhill car racing. It sure beats sitting on a couch, inside on their device.

Anywhere in Maine, the state race in Houlton is part of soap box derby district ten.

Had two children win the local and go on to race in Akron Ohio which is an experience they will never forget. Have stayed active in the Maine soap box derby racing program since 1995 and enjoy it immensely.

Heavy Boys? Super Stock Derby Cars Can Be A Tad Heavy To Lift Up, Set Down.

Please reach out and would love to help you get started in soap box derby racing. It’s exciting car racing and gravity is your motor. It’s all downhill from here.

Anxious, Nervous, Excited All Mixed In With The Stomach Butterflies.

Tips to get your local race off the ground and how to compete with simple hacks all part of the discussion once you get “derbymania”.

Here is the All American Soap Box Derby rules to scan and consider. Maine had 5 local race sites around the state. Now the big state of Maine race is on Derby Hill, Houlton Maine. Only race course in state if the one in Aroostook County, Derby Hill. Like to learn more about the Houlton Maine soap box derby racing program or to set up your own?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton Maine 04730 USA

May 9, 2024
Soap Box Derby Racing In Maine | 2020 Race Is June 20th.

Soap box derby racing, in Maine the date to remember is always in June.

This year June 20th is the 25th year of Northern Maine soap box derby racing date. The Houlton Maine derby program enjoys success thanks to a special engineered hill. Built to make derby racing safe and the track easy to set up and tear down each year. Rain or shine, the derby race is held on Derby Hill at Community Park in Houlton Maine. More on building a stock and super stock soap box derby car.

If you want to race in a local, Houlton Maine is the state venue for soap box derby racing.

The best way to know more about the race program is by watching video of soap box derby race in Maine downhill runs.

How do you order a derby car for soap box racing?

Visit the link from the All American Soap Box Derby store.

Since 1934, the national down hill racing event in Akron Ohio attracts hundreds of racers. That trek to Ohio to test their racing skills on a three lane hill that has adjustments to make each car launch release as even steven as possible. In soap box derby racing, heats used to advance racers are won or loss by hundredths of a second. Here’s the link for the stock car derby racer kit. Taller, older drivers will enjoy the extra space inside the super stock racing car kit. Soap box derby racing in Maine, here to help you get into the program as a driver, sponsor, program volunteer.

The Houlton Maine state race contact information.

Northern Maine Soap Box Derby

88 Randall Ave

Houlton, ME 04730

207-532-8236 Visit https://mainesoapboxderby.tumblr.com/

Here are lots of images from past soap box derby races held on the Houlton Maine hill.

Weighing During Tech Day. 200 Pounds Maximum Weight For Kids, Car, Helmet.

Nervous? You Bet. Let’s Check Brake Again. Adjust That Helmet To Be Ready For A Green Light.

Trial Run For New Drivers. Lane 1 & 2 Neck & Neck! Heats Decided By Thousands Of A Second.

Out At Akron Ohio All American Race Run 3 Lanes At A Time.

Houlton Maine, The State Of Maine Race Site Was The Largest In Country Five Years In A Row!

Good Sportsmanship And Safety Are Absolutes In Soap Box Derby Racing.

The Gates Topside On Derby Hill In Houlton Maine.

This Year’s T-Shirt For Stock, Super Stock, Master Car Racers All Different Colors.

Topside Looking Down At The Finish Line Of Derby Hill.

Families of all ages can race and kids can compete in one of three different soap box derby car divisions to keep them all involved.

Fairness, safety and competitive racing develops mechanical and driving skills. Rally races are held around the country to attend and add to the skill set. Points are awarded and getting to Akron Ohio on rally points to compete is another option for a derby driver and their support team to discuss.

Gravity is the engine and removable weights put in all the right places helps fuel the derby car faster down the lanes.

Waiting For Weight In, Pairing For Soap Derby Racing Heats.

Alignment, getting lower in the car for aerodynamics and so many other areas make a difference as your driver and their mechanic develop driving confidence in soap box derby racing.

It’s all about lots of little derby driving secrets and engineering brainstorming.

Planning on racing in the Maine state soap box derby race in Houlton Maine June 20th, 2020?

The 25th year of derby downhill racing will be extra special. If you are a sponsor looking for car to put in the Houlton race, please contact the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby program. Help to find a driver for your car is available and there are racers looking for a sponsor. Your Me In Maine blog author Andrew Mooers has ventured to Akron Ohio for the All American Soap Box Derby Race a couple of times with two of his children who won the local Houlton ME event.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

December 29, 2019
You’re Lucky Enough To Be Able To Drive, Cruise, Fly In To Maine, Aroostook County.

Aroostook County, the top of Maine, the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.

Somehow, by fate, coincidence or just sheer luck you get to spend a day in the “Crown of Maine”, in Aroostook County. What to do to make the best use of your time, to hit the highlights? Like a cruise ship that floats to three islands, and you collect all three t-shirts getting off to sample each venue for a day. Your cruise ship is in Aroostook County, parked, waiting for you to get back on board, to sail south.

You are not going to be doing the Allagash Wilderness Waterway trip. Too many days and that is an advernture for the next few day vacation you set aside on your return to Aroostook County. The Allagash trip is technically in Piscataquis County if the truth be known. Just like Baxter State Park is technically in Penobscot County’s northern most regions for the north entrance to climb Mt Katahdin.

So you are only here for a day which means a quick trip across the Canadian border in to New Brunswick, Quebec that both border us could be in the short time frame. Just to say you’ve been there, read the metric signs, learned a little roadside French. Collected a loonie or two for a sourvenir. If you had little kids with you, a climb up Horse Mountain, an easy trail in Baxter State Park would be memorable. Or a similiar hike up Echo Mountain at Aroostook State Park, Haystack Mountain in Caste Hill would give you scenery, exercise in the short period you cruise ship is anchored in Northern Maine. Outdoors is big in Maine. All four seasons. If you landed here in the winter, snowsledding to really cover ground would be a possibility. That adventure gets you to places not accessible by car and loaded with wildlife, scenery.

Just spending the day on one of the many lakes, ponds, rivers in Aroostok County could be what you had it mind. Put your feet up, lean back on a lake deck and peer out over the water.

Just relaxing without any huffing and puffing in Northern Maine.

Low key, but still with water in front of your, along with fish jumping, a coffee in your hand while the sun rises, birds serenade you. You saw a moose, deer, black bear all from your open deck or while driving around Aroostook County. Bean suppers at local community churches or say the Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum are not a bad use of a few hours during your trek thru Northern Maine either. Or if you land here around June 19th, you could watch the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Race in Houlton Maine. It was the nation’s largest five years in a row!

The best part of Aroostook County is not the unspoiled rolling fields, woods, waterways and long views. Not the wildlife in Northern Maine either or watching the changing of the seasons. It’s the people. Hardworking, family oriented, down to earth and interesting. Simple living by choice, but anything but simple mentally. Mainers have their feet on the ground, are focused on taking care of the neat region we are blessed with. We enjoy where we live, who we are, and want to meet you too. You will come away from Aroostook County’s day visit with a sense of peace, hope. Knowing there is a place where the pace of life is not 200 miles an hour, other people matter and time out to enjoy the four season beauty of a place like Aroostook County really happens. You’ll be back from your day long taste to spend more time here. To get to know Aroostook County..the “other Maine”.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

May 5, 2010