Friday, we raced at work..... and here are the results.
I had four cars entered into the race at work that we have each year to raise money for United Way.
I wanted four trophies, one for best design, first and foremost, that is the trophy on the right with the '37 Ford y'all have seen in progress. We raised $428 in votes ($1 per vote), just on this car.
I built a Street Stock and named it Unusual Condition, that came in first. BTW, Road Hazard (my '37) came in second place to Unusual Condition.
Next, I had a car called Ghost Buster racing in a modified class... 1st place again.
Then I had the car on the left called Mellow Yellow... yeah... he came in DEAD LAST. Which is what I was really shooting for. He is a snail car /images/boards/smilies/wink.gifWhen I put him onto the scale for weight, he weighed about 38 grams. LOL They were trying to tell me that I need to add weight... I was like, "He will be fine, thanks." Then when I was staging him, the guy after me was like... I think he is backwards.... I was like, "He will be fine, thanks."
They dropped the gate, and Unusual Condition took off and so did most of the others, and Mellow Yellow just coasted down the hill. That flap came up, and about 200 people were almost all in unison when they gasped (like WTH????), then the car got about halfway down the flat when the sail went down and he started coasting. The audience was hollering, "go, Go, GO! !" When he finally finished across the line, he stopped about just shy of going into the stop section and they all started cheering ! ! ! It was very cool. I was hoping to get that kind of reaction when I was building this car, and it went exactly as I had hoped.
So Mellow Yellow got a trophy for slowest time. The class was called LAST Pass (My job is big on Acronyms, LAST = Low Average Slow Time.
So, yeah... it was a tough day at work Friday.
But ! ! ! as with all non-league pinewood derby's... I was also accused of cheating. HAHAHAHahaha... so that made my whole day complete !
Thanks guys ! Racing against all of you helped me show off my talents at work. And racing at work is what got me started racing with all of you !
Jay
I had four cars entered into the race at work that we have each year to raise money for United Way.
I wanted four trophies, one for best design, first and foremost, that is the trophy on the right with the '37 Ford y'all have seen in progress. We raised $428 in votes ($1 per vote), just on this car.
I built a Street Stock and named it Unusual Condition, that came in first. BTW, Road Hazard (my '37) came in second place to Unusual Condition.
Next, I had a car called Ghost Buster racing in a modified class... 1st place again.
Then I had the car on the left called Mellow Yellow... yeah... he came in DEAD LAST. Which is what I was really shooting for. He is a snail car /images/boards/smilies/wink.gifWhen I put him onto the scale for weight, he weighed about 38 grams. LOL They were trying to tell me that I need to add weight... I was like, "He will be fine, thanks." Then when I was staging him, the guy after me was like... I think he is backwards.... I was like, "He will be fine, thanks."
They dropped the gate, and Unusual Condition took off and so did most of the others, and Mellow Yellow just coasted down the hill. That flap came up, and about 200 people were almost all in unison when they gasped (like WTH????), then the car got about halfway down the flat when the sail went down and he started coasting. The audience was hollering, "go, Go, GO! !" When he finally finished across the line, he stopped about just shy of going into the stop section and they all started cheering ! ! ! It was very cool. I was hoping to get that kind of reaction when I was building this car, and it went exactly as I had hoped.
So Mellow Yellow got a trophy for slowest time. The class was called LAST Pass (My job is big on Acronyms, LAST = Low Average Slow Time.
So, yeah... it was a tough day at work Friday.
But ! ! ! as with all non-league pinewood derby's... I was also accused of cheating. HAHAHAHahaha... so that made my whole day complete !
Thanks guys ! Racing against all of you helped me show off my talents at work. And racing at work is what got me started racing with all of you !
Jay
