Championship NASCAR team owner Richard Childress will once again lend support to his racing roots at Hobby Park in Winston-Salem for the Winston-Salem Area Soap Box Derby presented by Richard Childress Racing.

The winner of this All-American Soap Box Derby ‘local race’ will advance to the 71st annual All-American Soap Box Derby, July 26 in Akron, Ohio.

Childress was a teenager in the late 1950’s when he and his brother, Larry Childress, went door to door downtown Winston-Salem soliciting shop owner for funding to purchase a soap box derby kit.  Nearly 50 years later, the wheels and axles from that soap box derby racer are on display in the RCR museum on the RCR campus.

“Being part of that soap box derby race was a very important start to my becoming a race car driver just a few years later, “said Childress.  “It taught me my first lessons in securing sponsorship, building a race car and competing against other drivers.  I’ve been very fortunate to have had the success I’ve had racing and a lot of it goes back to that soap box derby race.”

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For more information on how you can become a sponsor or supporter of the Annual Winston-Salem Area Soap Box Derby in 2008, Phone Steve Hayes at (336) 225-9951.