It's a bird! It's a plane! It's . . . actually a bird. An angry bird! On a soapbox!
Flying through the finish line at the always-wacky Red Bull Soapbox Race was Angry Bird Droppings, a Garden Grove-based team made of former UCI engineering students. With a red feathered vehicle modeled after the wildly popular mobile phone game, the five-man group (Nathan Nguyen, Hanson Yu, Joseph Carbajal, Phong Trac and Yosuke Arai) took second place out of 34 at the annual event held on Saturday in Los Angeles.
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Before the race, 26-year-old driver Nguyen told Red Bull: “There's something funny about a car with feathers, but looks are deceiving: inside this bird will be a lean, mean, winning machine!”
Scores were based on speed, showmanship and creativity. First place went to East Los Angeles' Lakers FanWagon, which won a day with Red Bull's NASCAR team. For coming in second, Angry Bird Droppings earned a ride-a-long in a 750hp vehicle with trophy sport truck driver and Red Bull athlete Bryce Menzies.
The team's Facebook page reads: “We're passionately focused on being the coolest group out there!”
There's no contest.
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