GOING, going, gone. But there was smile at the end even if the Shark Attack go-cart crashed out.

It was one of many spectacular tumbles on a Hampshire hillside that for most of the year sees nothing more exciting than dairy cows munching grass.

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But for one afternoon its becomes a course for Wacky Races.

The charity event - now in its seventh year - sees home-made go-carts going down the slope to raise money for charity.

Some whizzed down, others glided, many more trundled. Bulky hay bales provide stopping power should brakes fail on what is now known as Race Hill.

Every year Winchester-based charity A Better Life takes over the hillside at Bull Farm Estate, Kings Worthy.

The event is getting bigger with a record 70 competitors.

All competitors have built their own four-wheelers that are powered by nothing more than the pull of gravity.

They carts race one at a time with a radar gun timing their descent.

A Better Life fundraises to improve the lives of people in the UK and Mongolia.

This year's proceeds go to Piam Brown Ward at Southampton General Hospital, which cares for children with leukaemia.

Liza Bowers Stroud, from the charity, which she set up with Leigh Funnelle-McQueen in 2005, said: "I think it is even better than last year; the place is really buzzing."

Last year £2,303 was raised. Organisers are hoping to top that this time.

Leigh said: "There have been some fantastic carts this year and masses of people. One was done as George and the Dragon, a canoe, a silver bullet, a rhinoceros. Some people have put boxes on wheels others have spent days and days on them."