Derby Talk

Wasn't that second vehicle from a made-for-tv movie Jan Michael Vincent post-apocalyptic sci fi thingy? SOOO cool when I first saw it, almost certainly intolerable today. The second one would be pretty straightforward, unless you actually wanted the wheel triplets to spin like in the movie. Is this ...

Well, I have safesearch ON, so now you're making me wonder . I think I'll just leave it on.

did the car run only once in each lane? I've seen lane bias - until we gave our track a serious cleaning and rework about three years ago our "lane 1" tended to be slower and occasionally tossed cars off the track. Since then, no problems, NO TOSSED CARS, and it is now statistically faster...

This is why we tossed the "four on the floor" rule out for our local derby - in recognition that it can actually be quite difficult to get all four actually on the floor at the same time. Is this your first derby with this pack? They may or may not actually enforce this strictly. If you ha...

These are AWESOME! thanks for sharing!

Actually, the rules in the box really are that bad and leave too many loopholes/items open to interpretation. I have no interest in running a derby with the box rules. Among other things they allow for cars which would be disqualified at our District races.

I use two machines at every derby - one runs GPRM and RaceReplay, the other runs a looping powerpoint slideshow which includes photos of cars, photos from the prior year's derby, comics scraped off the web, logos of our corporate event sponsors, as well as derby facts. I've stripped out everything b...

Just sent you five years of data in CSV format, heat by heat with lane information, times, finish order, etc. We strip personally identifiable information from race results and publish to our Pack website each year, so the data is already set to go. When I first started doing this three years ago, i...

um... guilty!

Great idea!

how did you anchor the sheet into the base? Did you cut a groove... then anchor with... epoxy?

Three years ago we used a borrowed inkjet printer. It helped out tremendously, however while fast, we found we were waiting for it to print the requested 4x copies of the 5 page race matrix (one for me, one for the announcer, one for the pit crew, and two to post for the cubs to see). Last year and ...

My son's current year car is a little over 1/4" tall, but we beveled the sides in on the bottom edges of the car between the front and rear wheel which makes the car look about 1/8" tall when viewed from above. Since most derby cars are viewed from above, it makes it look like a ridiculous...

Awesome idea!

Since pinecars are basically out of proportion anyway, the scale actually looks fine to me. But now that you mention it...

We switched from RaceView to GPRM three years ago, and could not be happier with the switch. At that point RaceView had already been discontinued for 3+ years (if I recall correctly!), so kudos for getting it to continue to work a few more years. RV was too unreliable and we had a nurse an old lapto...

Design awards are only consolation awards if all boys who don't get a speed award get a design award. We do NOT do this - although I've been told that is what was done in our pack 5+ years ago. We give out participation certificates to all boys, out of the 72 racers, 41 took home medals and/or troph...