Alek's Pinewood Derby Race 2009

Yesterday's other big event was Alek's Pinewood Derby race for cub scouts. His car was very sleek and very fast! He and Gary have been working on it for weeks. The neat thing they did this year was have all their den over one night and cut out all the cars together using Gary's tools. It was fun to see all the designs in the planning stages and then the final versions all painted up.

The Wolfs and Bears ran together, and each scout got four runs, one on each track. Alek's car was fast, coming in 3rd, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd in his four races. His fastest time was 3.28 seconds, which would have been a track record except his two den-mates had cars going at 3.25 and 3.24 seconds! Alek's car came in 7th place out of 42! We are thrilled at his placement - the top 3 have to go on to the divisional competitions and that gets so stressful. So, we were aiming for a respectable showing, crossing the finish line for each race, but not have to go on! Perfect!

Here they are: Nathan, Daniel (3rd place), Andrew, Alek, Ben (1st place) and Evan:

Blue car is from 2007, Yellow Pokemon car from 2008, and Batmobile from 2009. All are now being displayed on Alek's new shelves in his room.
Batmobile up close ... love the fins!

Pokemon car up close - Pikachu rode in the top seat last year. Really cool design, and Alek loved the Pokemon, but didn't go very fast.

First year's car was sleek and designed with stickers ... nice looking, and finished all four races.