Our Pinewood Derby Results

Here are our family's pinewood derby results using Maximum Velocity! Click on a car name to see a picture of the car.

Year	Timothy	Shannon	Janel	Stephen
19971 Maximum Velocity! 1st Edition	Yellow Dragster Upper Division	Yellow Dragster Lower Division	No Entry	No Entry
1998 Maximum Velocity! 2nd Edition	Battery Car Upper Division 3rd Place - Design	Cube Car Lower Division 1st Place - Design	Black Wedge Lower Division	No Entry
1999 Maximum Velocity! 3rd Edition	Black Dragster Upper Division	Maroon Low Rider Lower Division	The Pipe 4th Place Lower Division	No Entry
2000 Maximum Velocity! 4th Edition	Rocket Carrier Upper Division2	Flashing Rail 4th Place Upper Division	Flashing Rectangle Lower Division	Flashing Z Did not Place3 1st Place - Design
2001 Maximum Velocity! 5th Edition	Red Arrow Upper Division	Flower Wedge Upper Division	Blue Interceptor Lower Division 3rd Place - Design	Yellow Rocket Lower Division
2002 Maximum Velocity! 6th Edition	Wedge SE Upper-Open Division	D-Backs SE Upper-Open Division	Bee Hive Wedge Lower-Open Division	Blue Speeder Lower-Open Division 2nd Place Design
2003 Maximum Velocity! 7th Edition	No Entry	Wedge Turbo Upper - Stock Division 2nd Place Design	Wing Upper - Stock Division	Dominator Lower - Stock Division 1st Place Design
20044 Maximum Velocity! 8th Edition	No Entry	Tulip Upper Division 3rd Place Design	Wedge 5th Place Upper Division	Bolt Lower Division

Year	Elisa	Shannon	Janel	Stephen
2005 Maximum Velocity! 9th Edition	Snake Outlaw5 2nd Place Design	Sports Car Did not place Upper Division	Cell Phone Upper Division 1st Place Design	Dune Buggy Fifth Place6 Upper Division 3rd Place Design
2006 Maximum Velocity! 9th Edition	Modified Wing Outlaw	No Entry	Patriotic Stealth Upper Division 2nd Place Design	Wing Upper Division
2007 Maximum Velocity! 10th Edition	Wedge SE Outlaw	Velocinator Outlaw 2nd Place Design	Detonator Upper Division	Speeder Upper Division7 1st Place Design

Year	Janel	Stephen
2008 Maximum Velocity! 10th Edition	Two-wheeled Wonder Outlaw 1st Place Design	Wedge SE Upper Division 1st Place Design
2009 Maximum Velocity! 11th Edition	Street Rod Outlaw Fourth Place	Green Stealth Outlaw 3rd Place Design
2010 Maximum Velocity! 11th Edition	No Entry	Vaccinator Outlaw 1st Place Design

Year	Randy
2011 Maximum Velocity! 11th Edition	2-Wheeled Car V2 Outlaw8 4th Place
Spring 2012 Maximum Velocity! 12th Edition	Pharodox Outlaw 2nd Place Design
Fall 2012 Maximum Velocity! 12th Edition	Lightning Bolt Outlaw
2013 Maximum Velocity! 12th Edition	Police Cruiser Outlaw 1st Place Design
2014 Maximum Velocity! 12th Edition	Iron Man Outlaw 3rd Place Design

Year	Randy	Elisa
2015 Maximum Velocity! 12th Edition	Fender Bender Outlaw	Flower Garden Outlaw

Year	Randy
2018	Formula One Pinewood Classic
2018	Maximum Velocity Special Westwing Classic Pinewood Derby

¹I spoke with the owners of all of the top cars in the race, and they all followed the guidelines in "Speed to the Finish".

²My 12 year old son built this car on his own using the guidelines in Maximum Velocity! It was a photo finish with his car just a whisker behind the winning car!

³A failed experiment. If you look at the picture of the car, you will see that the pyramid weights are not centered on the car. Thus, the car was heavier on one side and would not go straight. Oh well, there's always next year!

⁴A tough year, but no excuses. The competition increased significantly, and the club switched to the PineCar kits with solid rod axles. These proved to be a challenge. My consolation is that all of the winning families participated in our workshop!

⁵My wife wanted to enter a car in the Outlaw Division this year. So I built this three-wheeled snake. I can't take credit for the idea, as it was inspired by a photo I found on the web (if you know the name of the original designer, please let me know). The car was the fastest in the race, but was unstable. On the last heat it jumped the track, so it ended up in second place.

⁶After the race I found out that by time (not points), the car was third place. But due to the heat mix (it raced the two fastest cars more than other cars), the points scoring method placed it fifth.

⁷This was actually the 2nd fastest car, but it jumped the track on one run resulting in third place overall. Oh well, that's the breaks.

⁸The car was actually the third fastest (behind two cars with needle axle outlaw wheels). But on the second to last run the front bar broke off, so on the last run the car didn't trigger the finish line. I should have attached it with glue and a screw instead of just glue. Oh well.