WEEKEND WARRIOR

BY JEREMY ASHINGHURST

CONTEST WINNER!

Jeremy’s Weekend Warrior gravity racer was the winning entry in makeprojects.com’s Karts & Wheels Contest. Complete instructions for building this rad racer can be found at makezine.com/go/warrior.

Photography by Jeremy Ashinghurst

A few months after graduating from college and starting work, I decided I needed a new hobby. Soapbox racing sounded interesting — very fun, not too expensive, and it would get me into metalworking, which I had no experience with as an electrical engineer. I soon found the local soapbox drivers club, the Maryland MISFITS (downhillmisfits.com), and it was, as they ...

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