Kentucky Derby Festival

Great Bed Race Winners

2011 Results:                                                  
                                                                                                                                             

Place         Team                           Time

1          Curtain Call Photo Booth     30:06

2          Geek Squad City                 31:01

3          Apple Valley Gang               32:01

Best Decorated Bed: Bigelow Tea "SuperHero of Health" theme

Most Entertaining: Rubbies Southside Grill & Bar "Despicable Me" movie theme

People's Choice: Rubbies Southside Grill & Bar

Most Likely to Break Down: AAA Kentucky

Cone Eater: GE Appliances--  Technology Bravo (30 cones and three barrels)

Worst New Course Record: Louisville Coca-Cola (1:26)




2010 Results


Champions Division: 600 feet
Place Team Time
First Curtain Call Photo Booth 25:16
Second GE Appliances Team 2 27.78
Third Knights School of Welding 28.66

Fun Division: 600 feet
Place Team Time
First Rubbies BBQ 27.63
Second Horseshoe Southern Indiana 28:32
Third Northwestern Mutual 28.69

Best Decorated Bed
Place Team
First Rubbies BBQ

Most Entertaining
Place Team
First Stock Yards Bank

People's Choice
Place Team
First BAE Systems

AAA Most Likely to Break Down
Place Team
First Oliver's Billiards
2009 Results


Champions Division: 600 feet
Place Team Time
First Curtain Call Photo Booth 27.31
Second Ford Louisville Assembly Plant 27.87
Third Knights School of Welding 28.94

Fun Division: 600 feet
Place Team Time
First Holdaway Medical 30.02
Second Raytheon Company 30.78
Third Rubbies Southside Grill & Bar 30.87

Best Decorated Bed
Place Team
First Aircrew (Mannequins in car, Asleep at the Wheel)

Most Entertaining
Place Team
First Rubbies Southside Grill & Bar (1959 pink Cadillac, restaurant customers in tow)

People's Choice
Place Team
First BAE Systems
2008 Results


Champions Division: 600 feet
Place Team Time
First Ford Louisville Assembly Plant 26.56
Second Curtain Call Photo Booth 26.82
Third GE Consumer and Industrial – Tech 2 27.23

Fun Division: 600 feet
Place Team Time
First Integrity Manufacturing 28.41
Second Knights School of Welding 28.63
Third Action Systems 28.87

Best Decorated Bed
Place Team
First Oldham County Water District (Large bathtub filled with balloon bubbles)

Most Entertaining
Place Team
First Rubbies Southside Grill/Bar (Pigs dressed in international costumes)

People's Choice
Place Team
First Fulfillment Concepts (Churchill Downs finish line and rocking horses)

AAA Most Likely to Break Down
Place Team
First Louisville Community Development Bank
2007 Results


Champions Division: 600 feet
Place Team Time
First U.A.W./Ford Louisville Assembly Plant #1 25.50
Second U.A.W./Ford Kentucky Truck Plant 26.19
Third Fullfillment Concepts Inc. 27.16

Fun Division: 600 feet
Place Team Time
First Curtain Call Photo Booth 29.09
Second Louisville Auto Auctions/Kentuckiana Auto Body Repair 29.34
Third Heartland Payment Systems 29.44

Best Decorated Bed
Place Team
First Rubbies Southside Bar & Grill (Voodoo Magic theme)

Most Entertaining
Place Team
First Steel Technologies (Aladdin theme)

People's Choice
Place Team
First Fulfillment Concepts Inc. (Bedknobs and Broomsticks theme)

AAA Most Likely to Break Down
Place Team
First The Geek Squad
2006 Results


Champions Division: 600 feet
Place Team Time
First U.A.W./Ford Louisville Assembly Plant #2 25.59
Second U.A.W./Ford Louisville Assembly Plant #1 26.25
Third U.A.W/Ford Kentucky Truck Plant 27.12

Fun Division: 600 feet

Place Team Time
First Knight School of Welding 28.19
Second The Kentucky Center 29.15
Third Fulfillment Concepts Inc. 29.32

Best Decorated Bed
Place Team
First The Kentucky Center (props and costumes from Stage One)

Most Entertaining
Place Team/Theme
First AAA Kentucky (wearing Legos)

People's Choice
Place Team/Theme
First Fulfillment Concepts Inc. (Radio Flyer Wagon in Jack in the Box)

2005 Results


Champions Division: 600 feet

Place Team Time
First U.A.W./Ford Louisville Assembly Plant #1 26.16
Second U.A.W./Ford Kentucky Truck Plant 27.13
Third U.A.W/Ford Louisville Assembly Plant #2 28.28

Fun Division: 600 feet
Place Team Time
First Guess Inc. 28.53
Second GE Technologies 29.94
Third City of Jeffersontown 30.38

Best Decorated Bed
Place Team
First Lantech Inc. (50’s diner complete with dancing Barbies)

Most Entertaining
Place Team/Theme
First Gist Pianos (Little Richard lookalike playing piano)

Peoples Choice
Place Team/Theme
First (tie) Fulfillment Concepts & Ford KTP

2004 Results


Open Division: 900 feet
Place Team Time
First U.A.W./Ford Louisville Assembly Plant 40.98
Second U.A.W./Ford Kentucky Truck Plant 43.12
Third City of Jeffersontown 45.02

Fun Division: 600 feet

Place Team Time
First U.A.W./Ford Kentucky Truck Plant 26.89
Second U.A.W./Ford Louisville Assembly Plant 26.91
Third R.C. Bigelow 27.69

Best Decorated Bed
Place Team
First U.A.W./Ford Kentucky Truck Plant

Best Theme - "Art of the Race"
Place Team/Theme
First Gresham Smith & Partners

2003 Results


Open Division: 900 feet
Place Team Time
First UAW/LAP Ford Motor Company 39.44
Second UAW/KTP Ford Motor Company 40.03
Third City of Jeffersontown 42.84

Fun Division: 600 feet

Place Team Time
First UAW/KTP Ford Motor Company 26.11
Second UAW/LAP Ford Motor Company 26.53
Third Dynamic Autowash & Detail 28.19

Best Decorated Bed
Place Team
First Lantech: 20,000 Leagues

Best Theme - "Spirit of Adventure"
Place Team/Theme
First UAW/KTP Ford: Spirit of Flight

2002 Results


Open Division: 900 feet
Place Team Time
First U.A.W./Ford Kentucky Truck Plant 39.18
Second U.A.W./Ford Louisville Assembly Plant 39.78
Third Tricon 45.87

Fun Division: 600 feet

Place Team Time
First U.A.W./Ford Kentucky Truck Plant 25.07
Second GE Appliance Park 26.28
Third U.A. W./Ford Louisville Assembly Plant 27.59

Best Decorated Bed
Place Team
First Regional Airport Authority
Second Rubbies Southside Grill Bar
Third KFEC

Best Theme - "Stars & Stripes"
Place Team Theme
First U.A.W./Ford Kentucky Truck Plant American Pride
Second Louisville Bedding Co. (Munfordville) Yabba Dabba Doo, Red, White & Blue
Third Bank of Louisville Starred and Striped and Ready to Roll

2001 Results


Serious Division: 900 feet
Place Team Time
First UAW Ford Motor Co. - Kentucky Truck Plant 36.54
Second UAW Ford Motor Co. - Louisville Assembly Plant 39.28
Third Lantech.com 39.78

Fun Division: 600 feet

Place Team Time
First UAW Ford Motor Co. - Kentucky Truck Plant 24.13
Second UAW Ford Motor Co. - Louisville Assembly Plant 26.46
Third Jefferson County Police Department 26.46

Best Costumed
Place Team Theme
First Rubbies Grill & Bar Rubbies "PIG" Roast

Best Themed "Beds in Space"
Place Team Theme
First Lantech.com The Jetson's

2000 Results


Serious Division: 900 feet
Place Team Time
First UAW Ford Kentucky Truck Plant 35.22 seconds
Second Ford Louisville Assembly Plant #2 37.72 seconds
Third Tricon KFC 39.58 seconds

Fun Division: 600 feet

Place Team Time
First UAW - Ford Kentucky Truck Plant 23.07 seconds
Second Ford Louisville Assembly Plant #1 24.07 seconds
Third Nations Rent 24.91 seconds

Best Costumed
Place Team Theme
First UAW-Ford KY Truck Plant Excursion into the Millennium
Second Louisville Bedding Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite
Third Rubbies BBQ Clydesdale Hogs

Serious Division: 900 feet
Place Team Time
First UAW-Ford KY Truck Plant 35.27 seconds
Second KFC, Inc. 37.49 seconds
Third Executive Inn Motel 38.30 seconds

1999 Results


Fun Division: 600 feet

Place Team Time
First GE Appliances Home Laundry 25.30 seconds
Second UAW-Ford KY Truck Plant 25.66 seconds
Third GE Appliances Refrigeration 26.48 seconds

Best Costumed
Place Team Theme
First UAW-Ford KY Truck Plant Keystone Cops
Second Roppel Industries Rock and Roll 50's
Third Nazareth Home Flinstone's Bedrock