Red Bull’s soapbox draws 50,000 to Salt Lake City — and many more laughs

Matthew Henke says the whole experience traveling down Main Street in a rattlesnake was a blur, but it sure was worth it.

Henke and his teammates — Tom Avant, Richard Bartlett, Jordan Kelley and Doug Thebeau, competing as “The Desert Rats” — not only conquered the first-ever Red Bull Soapbox course in Utah, but the group from Kanab also wooed the judges Saturday afternoon with their “An American Tail: Fever Goes West”-themed pageantry.

It was enough for them to win the race, which drew tens of thousands of spectators on top of being streamed globally…

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