Jameson's first pinewood derby. He raced in a whole bunch of heats. At each level, each car races at least once on each of the four lanes, then the computer averages the times. The first rounds you see in the video are Jameson's den. He was assigned a #802 after we had already put #22 (his hockey #) on his car, so we put the new one on using painter's tape. Each kid in the den gets a certificate for winning something. Check out Robbie, the first kid, reacting to winning Funniest car. Jameson had Best Paint. He came in 2nd.
The next round of races were for the best four cars out the two Tiger dens. Jameson came in 2nd here too. Take note of the one kid on the right that didn't place and get a medal. The boy next to him is sweet.
The last rounds are Pack finals, and the top two cars at each level make it, for a total of ten cars. I think he was around 5th. To scale, the computer said he was running about "230 mph". One car was able to hit "235" once or twice. Less than a 10th of a second separated all ten cars. There are a bunch of tweaks we didn't know about, so maybe he'll do even better next year.
