Pinewood Derby 2011

Jonah's last pinewood derby! John and Jonah have been working on his car for a while. They started early knowing that our baby could very well come days before the derby. Lucky for me, baby Lucas arrived two weeks before so I was able to attend this fun family event.
Jonah's car, the Blue Hornet, raced well. He didn't place in the top overall winners, but he did place 3rd in his den. John was watching all the race times and guesses that Jonah's car was about 8th fastest out of 30-ish cars. Good job Jonah (and John)!

Jonah's first Pinewood Derby

Jonah's car has been sanded, painted, sanded some more and painted and painted. Finally after weeks of work by both John and Jonah the car weighed in at exactly 5 oz. Perfect! They applied Cars stickers and Jonah named his car Lightning and put on a #95 sticker just like Lighting McQueen. Jonah's car is the red one in lane 3.

Our stake has the aluminum pinewood derby track with a sensored finish line. They have a computer program that tracks the cars and rotates them through each of the four lanes 8 times for a total of 59 heats. So by racing different cars each heat, we got to see how well Jonah's car was doing. We were hoping to place in the top 10 out of 29 cars because of how good his times were.

At the awards ceremony Jonah's car placed 2nd in his wolf den. Yay Jonah!! Overall John thinks that his car was between 5th and 7th fastest. I think that's pretty good for a 1st timer.