The Result

Tonight was the big race at church. To my surprise, 13 of the GA's had made cars to race. The officials kept the boys' and girls' races separate, which is probably a good thing since there were some really fast cars on the girls side.

As far as my car, it was a good news/bad news night. Good news: Down & Derby was faster than about half of the cars there. Bad news: it was slower than my E-Racer from last year. I brought my E-Racer out of retirement to compare speeds from one year to the next. For those who may not remember, this was the car I built last year:



For you new-comers, I called it the E-Racer because it looks like a capital E from above.

As usual, the race event was pretty chaotic. Any time you have 30 or so elementary school aged boys running around in an excited, competitive state, nerves are bound to get frayed. Fortunately, our fearless leader Mr. Cooper did a great job of keeping the kids under control and kept the judging going smoothly. He asked me to be one of three judges to pick the best design and most unique car for each grade level and overall. My favorite design was a yellow wedge that had a bunch of large holes drilled in it to look like swiss cheese. There was another cheese car, but this one was much more interesting and realistic. All in all, it took 3 hours to go through all of the heats to determine a winner for the fastest car, and the kids won't find out who won that category or the design categories for another two weeks.