International Soap Box Derby race week returns to Akron's Derby Downs with pre-championship races starting July 15.

The 87th FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby World Championship features a week of gravity-racing fun for participants ...

POTTSVILLE – Nine-year-old Elias Purcell had planned to finish out the M&T Bank Pottsville Area Soap Box Derby on Saturday, but it wasn’t meant to be. Racing for the second year, th… ...

Bob Troyer, public relations chair for the International Soap Box Derby shares when and where the first race in Akron took ...

Soap box derby races originated in 1933, when photojournalist Myron Scott saw boys racing gravity-powered cars made from soap crates.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (WPVI) -- They were off to the races in Montgomery County on Friday. Conshohocken celebrated the 4th of July with a long-running tradition. It's their annual soap box derby, running ...

That's how Jordan Goines, 9, described steering a wooden soap box derby car down Robbins Ave. on Saturday afternoon, trying to not crash while also go fast enough to beat his opponent's cart. Two at a ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo (KRDO) - The Pikes Peak Soap Box Derby came by KRDO13 to do a little demonstration down the station's hill and talk about the 21st annual event on June 1 in Monument. 43 ...

Born with a physical disability that left her with legs that didn’t develop below the knee, 8-year-old Gabi Bilbrey dreamed of racing her own vehicle in the Bowling Green Kiwanis Club Soap Box Derby.

Soap Box Derby in High Bridge High Bridge ran its 13th Annual Soap Box Derby down Main Street on Saturday, Sept. 4. Reilly Schanel, 11, drove his "Red Hot Sauce" racer to a third-place win!

MACON, Ga. — On Saturday, the Magnolia Soap Box Derby will be rocking and 'rolling.' Marionne Redding is part of the 2023 Team Leadership crew. She admits she's never helped to build something ...

May 20—POTTSVILLE — Nine-year-old Elias Purcell had planned to finish out the M&T Bank Pottsville Area Soap Box Derby on Saturday, but it wasn't meant to be. Racing for the second year, the ...