Ok Parents -
First - thank you Hans for your support! Now - this is not at all what I had expected when we went to the Pinewood Derby Sectional Race this Saturday so read on.....
I took my own advice thinking it was brilliant and put my boys cars on the shelf and we did not touch them all week. On Saturday, we arrived 30 minutes before the race allowing just enough time to add some graphite, check in and weigh in and we are good to roll...only to find out that when we went to weigh in their cars my older son's car had lost .5 grams and my younger son's car had gained 1 whole gram! How could this be? Both cars were stored in the same place inside the home and both weighed the max weight at the first race of 170.1 grams....hmm....does anybody have any insights as to how this could happen and how the 2 cars stored in the same place could be impacted so differently?? very strange!
Well, we ended up borrowing a drill and taking out 1 gram from my younger son's 1st place car so that he could make weight to race again - oh - the pain it cost me to see his sad face! But, he ended up making weight and was able to enter the race against his peers and two other outposts. It was a very close race the entire time and he ended up bringing home the 4th place ribbon! Congratulations Luke! My older son was racing against some veteran pros and so it was fantastic to see him bring home 6th place. Way to go boys!
It was an exciting race all the way to the finish line and both boys are now elgible to compete again at the Division Race coming up on the 16th - where the competition becomes quite fierce! I may have to rethink my strategy of just letting the cars sit for 2 weeks??? hmm....any and all advice is quite welcome! :-)
Until next time....let it roll......
Julie
aka: Derby Mom
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