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Entries are now open for the UK's most prestigious soapbox race - Cairngorm Soapbox Extreme - and they're going fast!

Two miles of tarmac and head to head racing at speeds in excess of 60mph make this event unique it the UK's soapbox racing calendar.

• Classes for soapbox carties and gravity sidecar
• SCA Championship points available
  

For full details, see here.

Entry forms for the 4th Cairngorm Soapbox Extreme will be available from 1st February 2012. As with previous years, places will be strictly limited and will be allocated on a "first paid, first served" basis. Last year, all places were gone within 48 hours.

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The technical specification for the Soapbox Cartie and Gravity Sidecar classes for Cairngorm Soapbox Extreme 2012 are now available for download. We hope to have entry forms available online within the next two weeks.

They have both been revised from last year - substantially so in the case of the soapbox rules - so competitors should read them thoroughly to ensure they are eligible to compete.

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Another great video from AAL Media Scotland, this time showing all the thrills and spills from Cairngorm Soapbox Extreme 2011 compressed in to 2 minutes.

SportsCover Direct widens insurance offering - Private Healthcare UK -

SportsCover Direct widens insurance offering Private Healthcare UK It also now insures people travelling to take part in soap box racing and canoe polo competitions. There are very few activities that it will not cover, but it will not insure people involved in cage fighting, snow kiting or speed flying, ...

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Sports, leisure and travel insurance specialists SportsCover Direct have been offering cover for cartie racers via their SportsGuard product for some time now, following an enquiry made by the Scottish Cartie Association during the run up to the very first Cairngorm Soapbox Extreme in 2009. Although all events are normally required to have third party and employer liabilty cover, this explicitly excludes the competitors themselves who all sign disclaimers and take part at their own risk.

If you take part in soapbox racing and would like to find out more about what cover is available for you as an individual, go to their web site and have a look. And - if you go via the link on this page and subsequently decide to take out a policy, the SCA will get a tiny bit of commission too.

For more information on event and competitor insurance, see here.