10 secrets to winning the pinewood derby

Thanks to your tips my daughter raced her pinewood Derby car last night. But when it came to the end of the track. The car hit the backstop and exploded on impact. Many lives were lost last night. Derby racing will never be the same. It was a sad night of racing.

THANK YOU! I watched other pinewood derby videos but settled on yours as what I thought was the best. I helped my grandson on his Cub Scout derby car. Today he won 1st place overall!

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this vid. Well thought out and presented. I’m helping my son for his first race and we’ve done some of the tips, not all. I’m excited to see how his first race goes.

Great tips!! Keep on dong what you're doing, cause you're doing GREAT!!!!!

Great information to know! I have been wanting to do a pinewood derby with my Dad, so I think we may have a chance of winning with these great tips.

Glad to see another fanatic sharing tips! (Every year I end up hosting a building night at my house to help all the new guys!)

Seems like a lot of work. Glad my dad made mine for me. Like all the other dads in my troop back in the 1970s. Luckily, my dad was an engineer with a drill press in the basement.

You should consider racing league. Npwdrl in Utah will be opening up a class in January for graphite cars. In addition, APR in Ohio has a box stock class. Although they allow oil, the wheels and axles have to be right out of the box and can’t be modified.

For any of you that are interested there is now a series of pinewood derby speed tip videos on the pinewood derby section of the channel

I’ve been doing this for years. This is the best vid I’ve seen to date.

My little girl just got into her first pinewood derby!!! I'm looking forward to helping you reach victory!!!

This is great info, thank you!

Thank you!

Great video! I don’t disagree with anything you shared but you are just scratching the surface

Do you have additional advise on proper installation of the axles? Last year I took a lot of time working on smoothing the axles and proper weight placement. However, I messed up when placing the axels. I tried to adjust but the rear premade wheel base broke. Unfortunately it was the night we had to turn in the car I didn’t have enough time to properly correct it and ended up just gluing it 😢. After the race I noticed the back wheels rubbed on the wood making a line on top. Oh well. All that time wasted just to mess up while putting in the axles. 😢

Awesome loved the video.

The 3-5 degree toe out you talk about is there a jig that you can use to achieve this for the DFW? There are jigs for the 3 degrees toe in for the rear wheels.

Genius!

Thanks for making this videos. I a m making my car now

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