Red Bull Home Run will début at the British Freeski and Snowboard Championships in Laax, Switzerland. Be prepared for the most ridiculous event the BRITS has ever seen!

At the end of March, the cream of the British snow sports scene will head to Laax to compete (and party) at the BRITS. Red Bull will, as always, be supporting the event with an on-hill energy station, fuelling competitors and providing the tunes, throughout the week.

On Friday April 4th, at 5pm, to celebrate the last run home of the BRITS, Red Bull has created an en masse, elbows-out, race to the bar: Red Bull Home Run.

Red Bull Home Run will start at the top of the mountain, as hundreds of skiers and snowboarders jostle for position on the start line. At the starter’s gun, the pack will race flat-out to the finish line, almost five miles below at the very foot of the mountain, taking in 1200 metres of vertical descent in around 4 minutes!

The first male and female skiers and snowboarders to complete the gruelling race and cross the finish line will take the win bragging rights, and be crowned the 2008 Red Bull Home Run Champions - just in time for the BRITS Wrap Party later that night…

Lighting up the après-championship festivities will be award winning VJ duo Meek.tv and internationally reputed DJ Bonobo. Meek will provide a visual extravaganza to close down the week in true style: mixing live, beat-synched visuals to the tunes spun by Ninja Tune's Bonobo. The end result will be a mind blowing combination of their own award winning images along with footage from the week’s action at the BRITS and Red Bull Home Run.

Red Bull Home Run is open to anyone with a BRITS wrist band, who is brave (and foolish) enough to enter. Registration will be open on the day at the Red Bull Energy Station at the top.

If you want to be part of the mayhem, last minute packages are still available at www.brits08.com

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If you want to know what a Chinese Downhill is, check out this clip from the UK's own Tamworth SnowDome from a few years back on YouTUBE.

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