All the pictures from the Hunstanton Soap Box Derby 2024

Almost 60 home-made karts took part in the event at Hunstanton on Sunday.

Lee Torrice, from team Over A Pint, crosses the finishing line (Image: Chris Bishop) A kart takes off over the jump in the Hunstanton Soap Box Derby (Image: Chris Bishop) Birkin's Girls hit speeds of 20mph down the course, expertly dodging the chicane (Image: Chris Bishop) King's Lynn Police Cadets drew cheers from the crowd (Image: Chris Bishop) Whacky racing - many teams opted to customise their karts with smoke and sound (Image: Chris Bishop) They reached speeds of up to 24mph down the sprawling course, which ran down The Green to the Prom.

A fiendish chicane and formidable jump took their toll, thinning out the competition on the way down the course.

Disco driving with the Crystal Sounds team (Image: Chris Bishop) Ouch... the Radiology Department from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital came a cropper on the jump (Image: Chris Bishop) Overall winners Apex Legend with West Norfolk mayor Paul Bland (back, left), West Norfolk Council's portfolio holder for events Bal Anota (back, third from right), and Hunstanton mayor Mike Ruston (back, second from right) (Image: Chris Bishop)

The King's Lynn police kart hits the ramp (Image: Chris Bishop) Oops... A kart slewed off the course and ploughed into the straw barrier (Image: Chris Bishop) Overall winners Apex Legend delivered two almost flawless runs with an average time of 30 seconds.

The course was lined by large crowds of spectators, despite a soggy start to the afternoon heat.

North West Norfolk MP James Wild crosses the finishing line (Image: Chris Bishop) Noddy wasn't caught napping by the challenging course (Image: Chris Bishop) Hunstanton fire station delivered two smoking runs (Image: Chris Bishop) Winners Apex Legend show their style (Image: Chris Bishop) Marshalls give the QEH Radiology Department kart a helping hand down the course after it caught a cold on the jump (Image: Chris Bishop) The event, which has its origins in the 1950s fizzled out in the 1970s. It was relaunched by West Norfolk Council in 2017 and soon became one of Hunstanton's biggest free events.

The final run of the day was a lap of honour, with Roger Partridge at the wheel of the kart raced by the town's retained fire crew.

​Mr Partridge, who has organised the event since it was reborn seven years ago, is soon to retired.

Event organiser Roger Partridge enjoyed the jump during his lap of honour before he retires (Image: Chris Bishop) Super Mario on his way down the course (Image: Chris Bishop) A sleek kart is put through its paces (Image: Chris Bishop) A kart sends the straw bales flying as it nips through the chicane (Image: Chris Bishop) Charles le Strange Meakin at the wheel in his dinner jacket for Birkin's Boys (Image: Chris Bishop)