Dragons, pizza rats and spaghetti-powered machines hurtled down 17th Street on Saturday as the South Slope Soap Box Derby returned for its 18th year, drawing families to Brooklyn’s most imaginative race.

Nearly 90 homemade soap box cars built from recycled materials hurtled down the slope to cheers from hundreds of friends, family and fans. The annual derby, a culmination of KoKo NYC’s summer programming, has become a South Slope tradition, celebrating creativity, innovation — and just the right amount of chaos.

“It was such a great summer, it was amazing,” KoKo NYC director Monika Wuhrer told Brooklyn Paper. “E very year we have a few more, and the cool thing is, they come really with ideas already and they just make it into the coolest cars.”

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