2014 Pinewood Derby Car Race Results

Congrats to all racers for a terrific showing at the 2014 Pack 380 Pinewood Derby Car Race!  All scouts and families of scouts deserve a round of applause for making the event a success once again.

Here are the scout cars that were entered this year:

Here are the Open Class cars:

One thing that is for certain is that we had our most competitive races in quite some time with the average time between the top finishers and the cars in the Turtle Race being less than 0.35 seconds.  That is a very small margin so all racers should be proud of their results.

Some thanks are in order for the contributions of the following people without whom the races would not have been a success:

• Mr. Llata for serving as primary race announcer with assistance by Carlos Moreno (the Mt. Diablo Silverado Council District Executive) who stopped by to check out the races.
• Mr. Sigmundson who was our Race Marshall once again.
• Mr. Sumer who helped with pizza pick-up.
• Mr. Eldridge, Mr. Rominger and Mr. Lang who were the official race starters.
• Our Boy Scouts (David, Ethan and Cal) who incidentally are who are Woodside Elementary alums who helped with the running of the races.

If the track we used this year did not look familiar, give yourself a pat on the back for being observant.  We were lucky enough to get the track from a cub scout pack in the area that was looking for a good home for the track because they had gotten a new track.  We now have our own track for the first time!

The race format had each racer run in six preliminary races so that each car would get one turn to run in each of the six lanes.  The results from the preliminary races were used to determine the cars that would be in the Championship Finale and the cars that would be in the Turtle Race.  Here are the results from the preliminary races:  Preliminary Race Results.

The next race was the Turtle Race with the cars with the slowest average times from the preliminary races in the race.  The winner of the Turtle Race was the car making it across the finish line last.  This was a single race winner take all race.  Here are the results from the Turtle Race:  Turtle Race Results.

This year we had two siblings of scouts and three parents entered in the Open Class race.  The race was won by the Bat Car:  Open Class Race Results.

The Championship Finale again had the cars separated by hundredths of second.  For this race, each car was able to run once in each lane.  Here are the Championship results:  Championship Finale Results.

In addition to above results, we also handed out awards to Top Finisher for Tigers, Wolves, Bears and Webelos.  These were the top finishers who were not trophy winners.

Finally, we handed out an award for Spirit of Scouting for the scout/car that best exemplified the spirit of scouting, doing your best, sportsmanship, and individual effort with the making of his car.  This like all of the awards could have gone to a number of scouts, but winner of this award for 2014 was Webelo Han E.

Good luck next year!