The Pinewood Derby Challenge

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Enjoy the video- I sure did...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtWYf2X-g84
 
Outlaw/cheater car extras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZ90bRnyDo
 
Looks like almost everyone who races the unlimited class would have won in the outlaw race at the PWD challenge. NPWDRL is the fastest...
 
I like when the guy said that aerodynamics did not matter.

That guy gives engineers a bad name.
shutup
 
gota admit that the one outlaw where the car came off an external ramp was pretty interesting.

The scouts one where he created that long hole in the car so that it would start in front of the other cars at the start gate was self defeating...it only meant his car had that less time on the hill to generate speed...as such in the flats he was caught and passed quickly....

I agree, I think our unlimited, eliminators and even SPs perhaps would beat some of those cars....of course that's assuming the track is the same set up and is running the same as our league race one if we are just looking at those times that the video showed....

All in all it was pretty entertaining!
 
tmeyer said:
I like when the guy said that aerodynamics did not matter.

That guy gives engineers a bad name.
shutup

Don't hold it against him. I'm sure he knows about what he knows about, but he just doesn't know pinewood derby racing!
 
bracketracer said:
tmeyer said:
I like when the guy said that aerodynamics did not matter.

That guy gives engineers a bad name.
shutup

Don't hold it against him. I'm sure he knows about what he knows about, but he just doesn't know pinewood derby racing!

Yes. The PWD is it's own unique art.
The car that won understood.
They basically just added 7 inches of hill to their run.
No doubt that the fellas here would have smoked em with a BASX car.
It is fun to watch these very intelligent people spin their wheels on a subject they are new to.
 
Kid got 2nd place in one of the races. Typical engineers though, over designing something that is pretty straight forward.