The second Bel Air Town Derby will be bigger than before: ‘It brings everybody together’

In the stretch leading up to last year’s inaugural Bel Air Town Derby, Ben Meyer started “trash talking.”

“I was trying to stir up some energy,” the Vagabond Sandwich Co. owner said. His derby car, piloted by a boy from Meyer’s neighborhood in Bel Air, sped down Main Street in late October bearing the sandwich shop’s logo and orange flames, and propelled only by gravity.

It didn’t win a single race. But this year, he’ll have a second shot at leaving the competition in the dust.

The Bel Air Town Derby...