Pinewood Derby

Yesterday was Ethan's Pinewood Derby with his Cub Scout pack. He and Josh have worked really hard the last few weeks getting his car cut out, sanded, painted and weighted. The cars cannot exceed 5 oz., and Ethan and Josh got his car to right at weight. Pretty cool! Ethan made a new car, and Josh did some tweaking on the car Ethan had used 2 years ago for the Pinewood Derby at Carbondale, and entered it in the "open" category. Each car raced 3 heats. In the first heat, both Joshua and Ethan's cars took first. The second heat, was the same. It was so fun to watch Clay and Micah scream along with Ethan for his car to win. :) The third heat, Josh and Ethans cars ended up in the same heat, and Josh took 2nd, Ethan 3rd.

The picture on the left above of the cars in the start block is Ethan's car. His is in lane #2, the red one with the stripe. The picture on the right of the start block is Joshuas car (Ethan's the red and black Dale old one) Jr. one in lane #3. The race finish picture is of the heat Josh and Ethan ran together. Then there is a picture of Ethan after he won the first heat.


Then there are the pictures of the awards!! Ethan took 2nd in his Den (age group), and 7th overall! Good job Ethan! His average time was 2.7564 (pretty freakin good). There were 50-60 cars in the entire derby. Joshua took 1st in the open division, and 2nd overall. His average time was 2.7072. Best of all, they had a great time and had so much fun working on the cars together.