Cape Tribulation billycart race - the eco grand prix of the north

This is a video of the 2009 Boxingday Billycart Race, which saw more competitors than ever!

The Eco Grand Prix of the north, the infamous annual Cape Tribulation Boxing Day billy cart race, has once again been a great success, and also seen a good crash as usual.

Dazza, co-pilot of Mitch, delivering his aero dynamic machine to the starting line

Three of the mean machines lined up, one more to arrive. Rules of the race;
no brakes and no brains.

The Dalai Lama has arrived to give his blessings to the carts

The machines head into the infamous Death Bend, Dumb Dazza waving at the crowd and creating air-drag ruining some of the unique aero dynamic properties of their sleek racer

As usual, maximum mayhem in the Death Bend, disaster strikes with Jinxed-James' cart ploughing into Jason's dragon wagon

Lucky survivors cruise on while behind the dust cloud Jason has been knocked off his cart and skids through the gravel and the disaster cart careers in to the spectators

The 2006 billy cart race

The 2006 race was run by four competitors / teams;

1. Jason in his dragon-wagon, the oldest surviving billycart to have run every year since the inaugural run, rumour has it that Lawrence Mason has offered $250,000 to purchase this historic racing machine as the main drawcard for his planned Cape Trib museum.
2. Mitch and Dazza and their aero dynamic sleek jet-ski like machine.
3. Calamity-Clancy, who managed to crash in to a coconut tree just before the finish line.
4. Jinxed James, the master of disaster responsible for the carnage in the Death Bend.

Champions of the 2006 race are Mitch and Dazza, thanks to (1) the secret weapon of having a co-pilot to add extra weight to exploit gravity down the steep bit, and (2) staying out of Jinxed James' way. Thanks to Calamity-Clancy crashing into a coconut tree on a perfectly straight safe bit of road Jason had enough time to climb back on his dragon wagon after the Death Bend crash and he still came in second. Clancy came in third after getting back on the road and James never arrived as his rooted racer was loaded on the back of a ute at the crash site for removal.

Organizers of the annual Boxing Day race expect to attain offical Eco-certification of the race by next year;

1. No animals were hurt in the running of the race (only people)
2. No fuel was burnt during the race, only gravity and muscle power was used
3. All alchohol consumed during the race was packaged in recyclable glass and cans
4. All racing machines were built of dodgy old recycled materials
5. No ambulances were placed on standby which would have meant use of fossil fuels to drive the 1.5 hour from the nearest hospital
6. This webpage was put together with a laptop on solar power.
7. The tree that Clancy slammed in to was a coconut tree, which is not a native species of the Daintree, and therefore this crash had the approval of Hugh Spencer.

The above pictures and video was shot from the entrance to Rainforest Hideaway, the best and safest place to watch the infamous crashes in the Death Bend, order your tickets for the 2007 race for limited places in this spot now for $100.- p.p. before you have to fork out $500.- to a scalper on Ebay just before the race!

Video of the 2003 billy cart race

If you have any other good photos and info on the race send it to us!

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Cape Tribulation Boxing Day Billycart race

Smiling spectators in the VIP area
at Rainforest Hideaway

Master of Disaster slightly injured when his
cart crashed and broke in two halves

A tragic end for the classic veteran Hillbilly
cart that has seen quite a few races

The 2007 Boxingday Race

Dazza, co-pilot of Mitch, delivering his aero dynamic machine to the starting line

Three of the mean machines lined up, one more to arrive. Rules of the race;
no brakes and no brains.

The Dalai Lama has arrived to give his blessings to the carts

The machines head into the infamous Death Bend, Dumb Dazza waving at the crowd and creating air-drag ruining some of the unique aero dynamic properties of their sleek racer

As usual, maximum mayhem in the Death Bend, disaster strikes with Jinxed-James' cart ploughing into Jason's dragon wagon

Lucky survivors cruise on while behind the dust cloud Jason has been knocked off his cart and skids through the gravel and the disaster cart careers in to the spectators

The 2006 billy cart race

Video of the 2003 billy cart race

Cape Tribulation Boxing Day Billycart race

Smiling spectators in the VIP area at Rainforest Hideaway

Master of Disaster slightly injured when his cart crashed and broke in two halves

A tragic end for the classic veteran Hillbilly cart that has seen quite a few races

The 2007 Boxingday Race

Dazza, co-pilot of Mitch, delivering his aero dynamic machine to the starting line

Three of the mean machines lined up, one more to arrive. Rules of the race; no brakes and no brains.

The Dalai Lama has arrived to give his blessings to the carts

The machines head into the infamous Death Bend, Dumb Dazza waving at the crowd and creating air-drag ruining some of the unique aero dynamic properties of their sleek racer

As usual, maximum mayhem in the Death Bend, disaster strikes with Jinxed-James' cart ploughing into Jason's dragon wagon

Lucky survivors cruise on while behind the dust cloud Jason has been knocked off his cart and skids through the gravel and the disaster cart careers in to the spectators

The 2006 billy cart race

Video of the 2003 billy cart race

Smiling spectators in the VIP area
at Rainforest Hideaway

Master of Disaster slightly injured when his
cart crashed and broke in two halves

A tragic end for the classic veteran Hillbilly
cart that has seen quite a few races

Three of the mean machines lined up, one more to arrive. Rules of the race;
no brakes and no brains.