Soapbox race – town of Mörfelden-Walldorf
Sport and event coverage of the city race. Mörfelden-Walldorf. The soapbox race in Mörfelden-Walldorf. The course is a closed-off village street: straw bales…
The soapbox race in Mörfelden-Walldorf. The course is a closed-off village street: straw bales along both sides, spectators behind them, and between them a driver coming down the straight in a pale blue car. A race without engines is surprisingly fast and runs between people — position and timing decide everything, because each heat happens only once.
A closed-off village street is a race track with an audience along both sides — a place where the camera position decides the picture rather than the focal length. Stand at the straw bales and you get speed; stand behind them and you get spectators.
A car without an engine is also quiet. You hear it only when it is there, which removes the warning any motorsport gives you — so at a track like this you do not wait, you listen.
For the town as the client both count in the end: the race and the fair. A race through the village is an afternoon with families along the edges, and the pictures that end up in the local gazette are rarely the fastest ones.
- Place
- Mörfelden-Walldorf
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