{"id":319493,"date":"2026-05-17T01:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/319493\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:18:14","slug":"red-bull-soapbox-race-fuels-imaginations-in-downtown-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/319493\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull Soapbox Race fuels imaginations in downtown Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being postponed in 2025, the Red Bull Soapbox Race descended Saturday on downtown Los Angeles. More than 30 teams competed from all over the country, bringing wacky chaos to First Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cKrusty Krew,\u201d featuring Joshua Thomas and Thomas Castellan from Tesla, built the Patty Wagon. Their vehicle appeared as a full hamburger with pickle wheels. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re gonna win! If anything, best in show, for sure. You don\u2019t need a license to drive a sandwich,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>Another team, \u201cMedieval Knievel,\u201d built the Flying Fortress. The father-son duo said, \u201cKing Charles built the castle, and it survived the test of time. And this castle will survive the test of gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being postponed in 2025, the Red Bull Soapbox Race descended Saturday on downtown Los Angeles. More than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,48,52,51,47,50,49,22440,127,19501,1090],"class_list":["post-319493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-red-bull","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}