Derby Talk

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DOUBLE YUK!

Son just won a 5000+ car district race today. Does this mean that there were 5000+ cars racing today!? Or, was the District race comprised of the winners from 5000+ cars that competed at the Pack level ("5000+ car district")? Quite an accomplishment either way. :bigups: Thanks for sharing...

WOW! 5,000 cars! Congrats and half!

How long did it take? What format? How many tracks? details, details please

We may explore this further ,it seems that most complaints come from the attending audience not understanding the format of points racing. We may need to spend some time during the next few meetings training chairmans on procedures then get this info to everyone well i advance of races. Stang, Ther...

Congrats! A couple of things in addition to gluing the axles. Rear wheels should be as far back as possible! From pic it appears to be opposite. Also looks to be a rail car with center hole, you may consider covering opening with something light weight, eg. packing tape. District level every .001 co...

There are a couple of things that I do have to wonder about. Only advancing 3 racers to the finals? There is little mystery in that if they are to award 1st, 2nd and 3rd place trophies. Personally, I would recommend that they advance more than 3 racers to their trophy round (at least twice as many ...

IMO, it really boils down to what is going to work best for that organization (racers and organizers). That often times is influenced by how many racers they have to run and what that organization deems is a "fair" way to run the race (scheduling method, times vs. points, single round for...

Doc, It sounds like you have questions which were not answered by the racing. Be assured that probably everything was accurate ... probably everything was fair.... Probably... Stan, Agree. My primary concern and unanswered question is with format. Had we raced heads up maybe I feel differently. Hav...

Could you tell if there were any errors in any of the heat times? Did any heat matchups validate the rankings of the approximately top 6 cars? No way to know for certain if errors occured, they relied on software and timer for calcs. Hardware and software appeared to work smoothly. They reran one h...

Good friend invited me to their Derby. They use a cumulative time format. Each car has four runs down track, finish order irrelevant, rank irrelevant. Only top three in pack advance to final. They scheduled two hours for entire event including registration and inspection. Pack had 45 cars race in un...

I think the axles are perpendicular to rail, unless I misunderstood.

I would agree with staging DFW as far from rail as possible. Low speed with limited wheel rotation takes its toll with early contact.

VerrrrrY nice Sporty!
Congrats on your win! I think you are on target regarding fenders utility, it ain't gonna make a dog a winner. However, at the higher levels of competition .001 matters, as you well know!

The 2nd and 4th cars show another experiment, besides dimples and partial fenders. In those cars, the fender is also blocking off air that would otherwise impinge on the interior cavity of the rear wheels. ..... Keeping the airstreams out of that turbulent cavity is a good thing, but the question i...

Golf ball dimples are designed to also provide lift.

I have a feeling a PW cars velocity may be to low to take advantage of dimples.

Congrats on a fine job and wonderful site.