The normally bustling intersection of Queensberry and Errol streets in North Melbourne was shut down on Saturday, giving way to a different sort of traffic: billycarts.

Dozens of them, some no more than a few planks of wood and cord while others expertly engineered, careened through a hay bale-lined racetrack during the fourth annual Queensberry Cup.

Children race in the fifth annual Queensberry Cup. Credit: Joe Armao

This year the field was filled with the usually eclectic mix of vehicles, including a reptilian low rider and Mattel-pink Barbie car. But most eye-catching of all was the aerodynamic carbohydrate cart dubbed “The Flying Potato”.

Ariel Valent, the event’s organiser and director of North Melbourne’s neighbourhood house The Centre, said the billycart was “a bit of an equ

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