Apple Head are now taking entries for the Worlaby Downhill Challenge on Sunday 22nd July. The event will be held at the small village of Worlaby, North Lincolshire.

Soapbox, Sidecar and Gravity Bike entries accepted.

See Apple Head's web site for further details.

Humber Bridge Jubilee Soap Box Derby is a community event organised by The Humber Diamond Jubilee Committee (HDJC) in association with the Humber Bridge Board and supported by Hessle Town Council, North Ferriby Parish Council in East Yorkshire and Barton upon Humber and South Ferriby Parish Council in North Lincolnshire. It is being held to raise money for charity whilst creating a fun day for the teams, supporters and spectators. ‘Fun’ or ‘Themed’ Soap Boxes are especially encouraged since they provide the most interest to watch!

The closing date for entries is 10th May 2012.

Entry form and further information available from here. Phone Phil Withers on 07834 435108 for further information.

The Annandale Cup is a 3km multi discipline gravity time trial which will be raising funds for UCAN. It is to be added to the 2012 Scottish Cartie Association Championship, bringing the total number of eligible races to four.

The race will take place near Huntly in Aberdeenshire on Sunday 15th July, the day after Cairngorm Soapbox Extreme, giving a potential three days of breathtaking racing in the Highlands of Scotland.

This event will be organised by the British Isles Gravity Bike Association in conjunction with the SCA.

Three miles from Huntly, the course starts from above the village of Thomastown and is 3 km long with a total drop of 140 metres with an average gradient of 1:21 and a maximum of 1:8 and finishes in the hamlet of Annandale.

Speeds of 50mph + are easily attainable.

Check out the hill for yourself at AB54 6EN.

The event is open to all gravity disciplines:

• Soapbox / Cartie
• Gravity Sidecars
• Gravity Bikes
• Street Luge.
  

Overnight camping available Sat / Sun.

Full details, entry forms, etc are available from here.

CartieSim, the SCA's cartie speed calculation application, just got better. Version 1.1.0.8 has just been released and includes some significant improvements;

• Added distance v. time chart
• Much improved calculation of elevation data from online satellite data sets (SRTM and ASTER). Elevation is now interpolated from nearest 16 data points using bicubic interpolation.
• Modified formula and algorithm for determining speed to better account for the effect of wheel mass
• Added modelling of drag plates (for Cairngorm)
• Default new cartie data can be saved
• Automatic insertion of extra course datum points on long straights to give better resolution of the elevation profile
• Automatic detection and marking of corners 

Breaking news!

A new event is to be added to the 2012 SCA Championship, bringing the total number of eligible races to 4. The race will take place near Huntly in Aberdeenshire on Sunday 15th July, the day after Cairngorm Soapbox Extreme, giving a potential three days of breathtaking racing in the highlands of Scotland.

The course is 3km long with one severe bend. Speeds should be in excess of 50mph.

More details very soon...

Reckon you've got a quick cartie? Taking part in more than one event in Scotland this year? Why not register for the SCA Championship and find out how good you really are! 

The SCA Championship is a competition run across the main soap box events in Scotland with the aim of encouraging participation in the various events and to creating friendly rivalry between teams.

Registered teams are awarded points for their final position in the participating events, and the team with the greatest number of points after the last event will be crowned as the SCA Champion. There are separate classes for Soapbox Cartie and Gravity Sidecar.

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Marnhull Annual Soapbox Derby to be held at Cox Hill Common Lane Marnhull North Dorset on 3rd June 2012. All eligible carts welcome to attend.

For regulations and entry form and full details contact:- Les Elsworth tel 01258 820432. mobile 07850749736.

Want to race at Cairngorm but don't have the time to build a soapbox? Help is at hand... Team Autorotation are selling the cartie they raced at Cairngorm, Castle Forbes and Border Bogies last year. This cartie has been on the scene for several years and has been raced at all the major events in Scotland.

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Don't miss The Adventure Show next week on BBC2 Scotland.

Deziree Wilson borrowed the SCA Bandit and raced in Cairngorm Soapbox Extreme last year, and you can see how she got on next Tuesday (14th Feb) at 7pm.

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 Download SCA CartieSim

(right click and select "Save target as...")

 Current version: 1.1.0.7

 Release Date: 21 Oct 2011

 System Requirements

• Windows XP or later
• Microsoft .NET Framework version 4
  

SCA CartieSim has been developed by the Scottish Cartie Association as a tool for carte racers and race organisers. It allows cartie courses to be analysed to predict likely speeds and course times. In addition, it can highlight sections of the track where high speeds and tight cornering may cause difficulties and can be used to model the effect of chicanes on speeds.

Data can be loaded from Google Maps, GPS / SatNav data files and files created by Trackmaster, and the characteristics of individual carties entered to predict the effect of changes to weight, aerodynamics, etc.

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Entries are now open for the UK's most prestigious soapbox race - Cairngorm Soapbox Extreme - and they're going fast!

Two miles of tarmac and head to head racing at speeds in excess of 60mph make this event unique it the UK's soapbox racing calendar.

• Classes for soapbox carties and gravity sidecar
• SCA Championship points available
  

For full details, see here.