Red Bull Soapbox Race

An ascent used in cycling's Amstel Gold Race plays host to an even more prestigious event! Teams of racers go Dutch as they career downhill in their homemade boxes.

The crowds gather in Switzerland for more downhill drama. We applaud the ingenuity of these amateur teams and cheer loudly as their wacky racers crash into hay bales.

Elysian Park in Los Angeles is turned into an obstacle-littered course for the day as 70 teams of adrenaline junkies put their gravity-powered contraptions to the test.

The competing teams' motorless vehicles use gravity - and definitely not sprouts - as their only form of propulsion. S5 Ep4

French farce from the streets of Paris as rival teams of amateur racers pit their wacky, gravity-powered soapbox vehicles in a downhill race against the clock. S5 Ep5