Mid America Pinewood Derby - 2018

[xanthrum]

All right everyone... I apologize in my late posting of things for this year... We have some amazing things in store for this years event. I really hope many of you are a part of this year's Best Pinewood Derby Show on the planet. There are some exciting new changes as we roll out this year's event.

Some things that you all should know about as many of you work with or race at council's, district's, and pack's events... I can tell you first hand that it is not always smooth sailing. We have had to spend a lot of time and resources in getting things lined up with our council for this year. Thus in a large part the reason for my delay in getting information posted & updated. We are very fortunate to have a Council that supports this amazing annual event that is the Pinnacle pinewood derby race for Cub Scouting, plus we have historically had Pro Racing as part of our event... offering a neutral site and track that those across all leagues can come together and race in an exciting venue. Not to mention an entire set of fun filled things going on that Cub Scout, Families, and Pro Racers will have a BLAST at this year's MAPWD Both custom Best Track - tracks have been upgraded and modified with lots of custom features - offering the Highest level of a fast, fair and consistent track.

Ok so here is what is happening at this year's Mid America Pinewood Derby - www.midamericaderby.com

-- The Event will again be hosted at CLAAS of North America - 8401 S 132nd St - Omaha, NE

-- All racing will be broadcast live

-- Things will kick off with Pro Racing - that will be an all day Friday Event - April 27th ... Nationals will again be run at this year's MAPWD - There are 8 classes. We will have check-in Thursday evening from 5-9pm on April 26th... with racing to begin at 9am and run until things are completed. We have some very special custom trophies - along with lunch and dinner provided as part of the event. Who will be crowned this year's MAPWD Pro Champion... We will also be racing the Big Rig's at the end of day.

-- Mid America Pinewood Derby - April 28th... early check in will happen April 27th from 5-9pm... on the 28th Check in will start at 8am until 10am with Ceremonies and racing to begin at 10am. One of the NEW Exciting changes to this year's race will be the addition of a NEW CLASS - Open Kid & Adult Oil Division - We will have 8 divisions... of the most competitive Scout, Kid and Adult racing in the country.

-- Some of the things that make Mid America Pinewood Derby an event unlike any other is that at this year's event we will again be having:
- Concessions
- Entry Bags stuffed with all kinds of swag - 1 bag per car entered
- LEGO - Car Building and Racing
- Hot Wheel - Racing - all entrants receive a Hot Wheel in their entry bag
- Pinewood Derby Drag Strip Racing - Race head to head
- Amazing prizes and giveaways - totaling thousands of dollars
- Many Vendors onsite selling pinewood derby parts
- Several local Mascots - including the Star Wars crew
- Over 200 Trophies awarded
- National Auto Safety Patch
- and many other fun filled things to do at this year MAPWD

This is our 8th annual MAPWD... and to help keep the momentum going we need your support in racing in this year's event Do not miss out on the largest Pinewood Derby Race in the United States - lots of information and details can be found on the website www.midamericaderby.com

Hotel information will soon follow...

Also just a little bit of a inside story... if you have even considered participating in the MAPWD ... this would be the year... as things will look a lot different next year.

Truly

Greg Dawes

 

[xanthrum]

Just a heads up there is an early bird registration fee discount for those that sign up before April 22nd ... this year is going to be over the top!!

 

[Bubblegum]

I read the rules and under the graphite divisions it stated that those cars that make it to the finals may regraphite and wheels cleaned before those races.

If a proxy car makes it, what happens to it during the reprep period? Would a race official reprep the car on behalf of the owner if given permission?

Thanks.

 

[FDM]

I am not sure you need to reapply graphite or even want to do it. Last year in the NYC race we raced 8 rounds and then 2 final rounds and our times didn't drop off at all. We did mess around with the graphite so not sure if that was a factor or not.

 

[derbychip]

I read the rules and under the graphite divisions it stated that those cars that make it to the finals may regraphite and wheels cleaned before those races.

If a proxy car makes it, what happens to it during the reprep period? Would a race official reprep the car on behalf of the owner if given permission?

Thanks.

When a proxy car makes finals it gets graphite added by race official, if you have a specific type and or instructions send with the car

 

[Bubblegum]

Thank you for letting me know and opinions.

If I was present I would take the opportunity to add graphite and clean wheels before the finals so I would probably ask by proxy as well.

 

[xanthrum]

Thank you for letting me know and opinions.

If I was present I would take the opportunity to add graphite and clean wheels before the finals so I would probably ask by proxy as well.

Yes if you send instructions we will do exactly what you request before finals it generally is a good thing plus we add graphite to all cars ...so if your running on a lube besides graphite it may not work so well ... as before can gum up oil or other lubes ...and since we have oil divisions you shouldn't be running anything other than graphite in the graphite only division

 

[Bubblegum]

I just wanted to thank you for putting on a great event. I am sure you and everyone is pretty tired.

When I mailed my cars in, I asked if I could pay for return shipping but was told that wasn't possible. How do I take care of this?

Again thank you for putting this event on.

 

[xanthrum]

I just wanted to thank you for putting on a great event. I am sure you and everyone is pretty tired.

When I mailed my cars in, I asked if I could pay for return shipping but was told that wasn't possible. How do I take care of this?

Again thank you for putting this event on.

Thank you - best way to cover return postage is to include a pre-paid return shipping label - do not worry we got it all taken care of you are good to go.

 

[Wolfram Racing]

Thanks to everyone who helped put on this event! My son and I had a blast and learned how to escape the trunk of a car!
I think we did pretty well considering the competition. 4th overall in open scout graphite. I stressed to him that our goal was always to improve since last year and we did quite a bit. It was awesome to see some truly gifted racers doing their thing.

This was his last race as a scout and I doubt it could have been any better! Thanks again!!

 

[derbydentist]

Just wanted to publicly thank Greg for being so awesome! Thank you for a great event but also for being so attentive to questions and concerns. I talked to Greg on the phone for the first time the other night and I think it must have been like 2 AM his time and he must have been really tired but he talked with me for a while despite his exhaustion - he is top notch - super nice and great to talk to. Thanks again.

With a lot of help from several guys on here and all the great info and advice my son was able to do very well at Mid -America. He got 2nd in Bears in the Scout open oil to none other than Ballistic Bobs kid - Congrats to the Bobbys ! Then in the Finals we ended up 3rd if you drop the slowest time and avg the times - but on the results print out we show up as 4th for some reason - this is what I was discussing with Greg. But it was super fun to watch online and Weston will be thrilled to get some cool stuff in the mail soon.

Special thanks to JBD for his advice and help and awesome workshop, also to Hurricrane who despite being busy building 40 million cars for nationals seems to have time to talk to me. Same with TBR who is the man and as nice as they come!

 

["The Fonze"]

Congrats! JBD huh.....

 

[Thinkin'Bout Racin]

Special thanks to JBD for his advice and help and awesome workshop, also to Hurricrane who despite being busy building 40 million cars for nationals seems to have time to talk to me. Same with TBR who is the man and as nice as they come!

I got mentioned in the same paragraph as JBD and Crane! I am not worthy of tying their shoes ...it must be that I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express over the weekend.