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MARYLAND

INDEPENDANT

SOAPBOX

FEDERATION

INCLINE

TRIALS

SOCIETY

The western world's obsession with safety and caution can be stifling. Society dictates that we shy away from risk, living lives shielded by airbags and authorities, warning signs and insurance policies. But for some people, simply existing in a risk-free world isn't enough. Sometimes more is needed.
For some, MISFITS provides a means to break out of the mundane and feel truly alive, exploring the limits of performance, creativity and your skills.

This isn't soap box racing the way it's practiced at the All-American Soap Box Derby--where squeaky-clean preteens line up in cars built by their fathers and a gaggle of aerospace engineers to race down a sanitized hill in proscribed, arrow-straight lanes.

DRIVERS

WANTED!

GOING

DOWN HILL

FAST!!!!

***!!! WARNING !!!***

SOAP BOX RACING IS INHERENTLY DANGEROUS

AND MAY RESULT IN BODILY INJURY OR DEATH.

DO NOT ENTER UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND THAT.

Like: downhill cycling, mountain biking, skiing, skateboarding, snowboarding, bmx, rollerblading, and other extreme and non-extreme activities. Soap box racing is dangerous, cars can reach upward of 50+ m.p.h.. Soapbox events are held on public roads and variable conditions always exist. The fact that your soapbox car will have, steering, brakes, and maybe a roll cage and seat belts should not imply that this activity is safe in anyway. Soapbox karts should obey all traffic rules to the same effect as a bicyclist, skateboarder, wheelchair or any other NON-motorized activity that may occupy the roadway.

If you are not comfortable with high speeds, danger, and possibly death then please,

DO NOT ENTER!

By entering and participating, YOU assume ALL liability for your actions and the outcome that may result.

You agree to hold NO ONE else responsible for anything that may happen before, during or after any of our events.

It is up to YOU to understand the risks and your participation means YOU know that bodily injury, emotional injury, financial injury, bodily death, emotional death, or financial death may be the result. YOU agree to hold everyone harmless should things go terribly wrong.

Further more, you agree to accept any penalties that may come your way as a result of your actions and not try to pass them along to some one else.

Now that we have your attention, if you are up to having a real blast and are ready to accept the risk, come join us!

We are NOT trying to scare anyone away by posting the dangers. We are simply trying to make sure you understand what can happen to you.

This is NOT for kids. There are dangers involved and we play hard!

COME OUT AND BE A PART OF THE ACTION!

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The most fun is usually had on the outskirts of sanity, somewhere between brilliance and mayhem.

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WORKERS NEEDED!
We are in constant need of volunteers to work traffic control. It just makes for a safer and more enjoyable event.
So if you would like to come out and help, please let us know! WE BUY BREAKFAST for ALL workers!

Reel of Film

We also need photographers and vidiographers as well as course workers just to help the drivers get into their cars and ready to roll. There's plenty to do, so if you want to be a part of the action, but maybe don't want to drive, come on out - we can always use the help!

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Still think it's kid's stuff?

Here's a few comments gleaned from the message boards.

I can't really move my neck. My back is killing me. Its really hard to breath and my back and shoulder are eaten up pretty bad.
My car is wasted.

Travis I hope you are better than you looked after the race, and The Guy who drove one of DINO'S cars who flipped too.

Cops...and then a firetruck... and then more cops. Awesome.

Whoever said that Maryland was completly flat hasnt done 50mph on wet pavement with no engine in a homemade soapbox car.

There was one run down the hill then the cops showed up to write a parking ticket and everybody scattered like cockroaches. I think they all have warrents or something.

But after the big crash I think his driver quit.

That crash on the video was no accident, thats how he plays the game.

My car destroyed, my elbow hurts, my back aches and I have an itty bitty cut on my pinkey finger.

I limp into my house with my car in a shambles and my wife says " YOUR A LOSER " and laughs.

I ache, just sitting still. When I try and move, I'm sore and stiff.

Well you can change Kevin’s to BrokenBonesKevin. He should get a hospital patch once they are made. He is getting his cast today but yesterday's ex-rays confirmed broken bones in the left foot. He's in good spirits and hopes to race this weekend with his cast... We'll see... I’m thinking more like camera duty.

he used to wear a half face too! Glad he listened to our recommendation because his face would have been mangled, the whole front was completely scraped up.

Maryland Independant Soapbox Federation & Incline Trials Society