Pinewood Derby

January 29, 2011

James' first official Pinewood Derby Race

James loves Cub Scouts, but for some reason working on his car was like pulling teeth. He wasn't very interested in helping to build his car. Sterling let him choose the design and they went a little too technical for much help from James, but it turned out great! James did help with the sanding and the painting. It is hard to tell from this picture but his car is the 'Bat mobile'.
Brother Linder was in charge of the race. He had a very elaborate system so that each car got to race each car and every boy got his turn in each lane. It was pretty impressive. Our track is a very old wood track that someone painstakingly built about 50 years ago, but it did the trick. All the boys were very excited to race their cars.

During the Pinewood Derby we had a dad at the end of the track and he would call which ones came in in which order. Then it came to a tie. Daniel and Steven had to race and race and race to see which car would win. We didn't have a timer on our track so we just had to call it by a stop watch for the race-off. One track would win each time so it was hard to say who the real winner was, but it was easy to say James came in 3rd! James really got into the race and had a good time. I was glad to see he enjoyed the race, because he didn't really enjoy the work of building it. Maybe next year, knowing what fun it will be he will be a bit more excited to help build it!

James with his car and 3rd place ribbon and medal!

Daniel, on the other hand, loved helping with his car. Sterling did the majority of it but Daniel did the great paint job! He can't wait to be a Cub Scout and get to do all the fun things that his brother gets to do.

We had an 'out-law' race for those who aren't lucky enough to be in our pack but wanted to race. We had a few sisters of Cub Scouts build cars, a few dads, and Daniel!

We didn't get too serious with the out-law race and didn't declare a winner, but Daniel's car was pretty fast. He had a great time too!