If we send a a proxy car, how do we get our trophy? That is if we were fortunate enough to win one...
Next question, I need an honest answer. My grandson's car won his district race but his best time on a 42 foot best track at his pack race was only 3.51. He won that race also but from what I've seen on your forum posts it sounds like 3.5 doesn't have a chance in hades of winning at your national open Scout Division. My question is, do you think his car would have any chance of finishing in the top 6 or should I try to build another car tomorrow and get it mailed out in time for your race?
This. Slope angle, timing light position, timer start position, levelness, and more all serve to make times very track specific. You can run on Track A and then run on Track B and get comparative times that way. But that's about it.
This is my first race as well. My son has won his pack and council race for the last 3 years. I'm not sending his car to this race. We are going to try Mid America with his and another car. I would send it here also but it's already set up for mid america rules. That is a very tough race as well. I threw one together for this race. I will be tickled if I get 2nd to last place. I didn't have the wheels I wanted to put on it yet. But that isn't going to make or break me either way at my level. I'm looking at it as a learning experience. You have to understand this is a whole different animal from scout racing. Times from track to track can't be compared either. There are a lot of very fast guys in this league that probably haven't won a race in this league. Not trying to discourage you. Send it in and have fun. But you are going to be racing against the top guys in the country keep your expectations realistic and anything beyond that will be a bonus.
Are you using out of the box parts on your grandsons car? Also I wondered if maybe you were confusing the nationals with the Mid American derby as it is widely considered the nationals of scout racing. The reason I ask is you mentioned an open scout division. To my knowledge there is no such division at the nationals. There isn't an amature division either, you will be racing against mostly pro league racers, not scout cars. The BASX division would be closest to most scout car rules at nationals. There is an open scout division at the Mid America's. It is very competitive also as there will be many league racers scouts entered in that. I don't know but some may even be faster than say the BASX class at nationals because you can use lighter wheels and aerodynamics like fenders and wheel covers where you can't in the basx class. Like I said I don't know all this for sure I'm just speaking on some of the research I've done on the two not by experience as this will be my first time too.
