Dedicated to the famous Cub Scout tradition — Pinewood Derby Car Racing. Our members offer tips on race car design, hints on racing and construction, competition formats, rules and Pinewoood Derby action pictures.
On-line How to and Why manuals for building the fastest pinewood Grand Prix car you and science can. Written for boys and girls but with plenty of opportunity for parental participation. The science manuals detail the physics of the cars and event centered around mathematical models.
Schematics, pictures and free software to time a pinewood derby using a PC. Other timers I found were quite expensive, $160 per lane and up. That seemed to pricy to me. My timer cost about $25 total for three lanes, the most expensive component being the lane sensors at about $3 each. Circuit boards are available for purchase on the site.
THERE IS A PINEWOOD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. IT IS CALLED THE PINEWOOD CUP. WWW.PINEWOODCUP.COM. THEY ARE RACING FOR THE WORLD TITLES IN SUMMER OF 2008. GOOD LUCK BUILDERS!
Canadian Pack's "Kub Kar" page featuring background, rules, and suggestions for "alternate" activities on rally day. Now including information on Scout 18 Wheeler races.
Race Track is an open source project aimed at packs that don't have the money to buy software for their races. Race Track is available for free to anyone including the source code. Come check it out.
