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Pop quiz: What’s the opposite of a hill climb? A soapbox race, of course, and between 2000 and 2013, the Goodwood Festival of Speed hosted a race that saw automakers such as Rolls-Royce field high-speed, gravity-fed racers. Now, the UK brand has restored the winning racers that presaged its modern revival.<\/p>\n

RR-0.01 and RR-0.02 were built for the 2001 and 2002 Goodwood<\/a> Soapbox Challenges, and both vehicles won their races with Ian Cameron, Rolls-Royce<\/a>‘s design director at the time, behind the wheel. And these racers were no joke. In the final year of the challenge, 2013, Cameron reached a top speed of 72 mph (116 km\/h) on his way down the hill.<\/p>\n

The soapbox cars<\/a> were good enough to earn the company silverware, like the Newton Apple trophy, but that’s not why Rolls-Royce decided to restore them. The one-off commissions are important because they were the first vehicles made by the company after it came under the ownership of BMW.<\/p>\n

Read: Looking For A Weekend Project? Build Your Own Hyundai Soapbox Racer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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