{"id":35349,"date":"2018-06-15T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/brand-new-track-permanent-camano-home-for-soap-box-derby\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T08:30:00","slug":"brand-new-track-permanent-camano-home-for-soap-box-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/brand-new-track-permanent-camano-home-for-soap-box-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand-new track, permanent Camano home for Soap Box Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t
CAMANO ISLAND — The cars sat in rows inside a big red barn, recently renovated.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
It was quiet at the ranch-turned-racetrack last week.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
It won’t be on derby day.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The cars were built by drivers ages 7 to 17, supervised by parents, grandparents, friends and volunteers. They’ll be raced in the 11th Stanwood-Camano Soap Box Derby on Saturday. Two winners from the day-long event head to Akron, Ohio, for a national competition in July.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The Stanwood-Camano race has drawn hundreds of spectators in past years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
This year, instead of speeding down the slope of a closed city street in Stanwood, the racers will hurtle down a freshly paved track on an idyllic Camano Island property. A double yellow line splits the new black pavement into two lanes from the top of the hill to the end of the track, beyond which lies a green field and a ridge of trees.<\/p>\n