Guts and gravity won through at Penn House Estate in Amersham, as estate agents and industry suppliers joined Agency Express in their annual fast paced charity fundraiser, the Agency Express Soapbox Challenge.

In this amateur driver’s race, teams come with one goal, to build and design the ultimate gravity powered Soapbox kart. Then fuelled solely by guts and gravity drivers race against the clock on a mile long track.

Taking the start line with their hand built karts were teams from Gilson Bailey, CB Slade and Clive Emson Auctioneers and Revive. After three nail biting runs the winners were announced.

1st place: The Gilson Bailey team from Norwich, completing the mile in 2:36 winning £500.

2nd place: CB Slade estate agents from Cirencester, completing the mile in 2:50 winning £250.

3rd place: Clive Emson Auctioneers from Chelmsford, completing the mile in 2:53 winning £100.

Gilson Bailey also took home the ‘Best Dressed Kart’ award for their spectacular Jeep themed kart while the ‘Wooden Spoon’ was presented to Revive the Frankfurt Ironman who recorded the slowest time, completing the course in just under four minutes.

Agency Express says thank you to the teams and their fundraising efforts £1600 was raised, to be split between Macmillan Cancer Support and Agents Giving.