Photos from the Soapbox Race at Alexandra Palace
It took time and effort for the teams to build/construct/design/source their materials/find costumes AND have to perform a 20 second intro (never mind the injuries that followed) but all the teams were absolutely brilliant!
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| Does my Scrum Look Big In This? 3rd Place |
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| My favourite and I think the fasted and most innovative float! Shame they didn't reach the finish- well done Team Toob! |
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| And my prize for most nostalgic float goes tooooooo... none other than Only Fro and Horses! (Yes I did spell that correctly!) |
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| The making of Alexandra Palace. Sort Of. |
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| Chariots Of Fire Going For Gold |
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| The Coffin Dodgers |
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| Going Hippy |
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| Metrosaurus? With some cool shades attatched. |
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| On her Majesties Secret Service. With a Bond esque intro. |
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| This wasn't even a part of the race today, I only just saw it on google! |
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| Cart made of Lego! |
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| Now fellas. Wait til after. |
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| Ally Pally, Ally what? |
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| Arriva Boys! First up! |
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| Usain. Have to say, the music was brilliant and it was an amazing atmosphere. After climbing (more like clambering) to the top of the hill and we took out place further down the bottom near the finish line and had a thoroughly entertaining and exhilarating experience. Not as much as the racers of course! Have to give a BIG shout out to Saw Point (which fell hard on their heads at the final ramp), the ramp was in the midst of being turned around until the crowd booed and then the staff left it as it was before, but then Scotch Egg were up and they flew and they flew over the ramp and flipped twice, the poor fella having to be leaning on one of the staff and looked like he broke or sprained his arm. Have to say the presenters/judges/first aiders and even the police running down the hill after the floats all did a tremendous job! And SAMUEL HARMAN too who I went to see to support Downton Abbey with the DOWNTON DESTROYER! Have to give him extra points for his crazy dancing for his into and after crashing, able to get the car back on track down route! Congrats boy! (Go to http://soapbox.redbull.co.uk/gallery/all/3 for videos, and watch the highlights for one of the horrendous crashes!) x S-J x |
