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Our Results
Here are our family's results using Maximum Velocity! Click on a car name to see a picture of the car.
| Year |
Janel |
Stephen |
2008
Maximum Velocity!
10th Edition |
Two-wheeled Wonder
Outlaw
1nd Place Design
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Wedge SE
Upper Division
1st Place Design
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1I spoke with the owners of all of the top cars, and they all followed the guidelines in the booklet.
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! (By the way, remember the family that won first and second place in the lower division in 1999? Well they won first place in the upper division and second place in the lower division this year. The competition continues ...)
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 build 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, 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.
With Maximum Velocity! booklets and supplies
you can build a pine derby car that reaches
MAXIMUM VELOCITY!
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