Pinewood Derby

Saw Night

Monday, January 20, 2025

The Thiel Residence

For privacy, the Thiel's address will be provided in an email to the Pack. Thank you to the Thiel family for hosting!

We will have band saws available to transform your scout’s pinewood block into their rough-cut preferred design. The remaining sanding, painting, and additional designing will need to be done individually between this night and the derby.  We will have some handouts available for standard designs that you can use as a template. To maintain even crowds, please try to generally stick to the timing below, broken down by den. If you cant make those slots, come when you are available.

Timing

• Lions – 4:30

• Tigers – 4:45

• Wolves – 5:15

• Bears – 5:30

• Webelos – 5:45

• AOL – 6:15

Impound Night

Thursday & Friday, February 6 & 7, 2025

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Wealth Trac Financial: 30777 Telegraph Rd, Franklin, MI 48025

Completed cars are dropped off, leaders inspect them to ensure rules are being followed, and the Pack impounds them until race day. 

We will have tools and spare parts on hand for last minute weight adjustments. Once the cars are checked in, no further modifications are permitted.

Race Day

Saturday, February 8, 2025

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Wealth Trac Financial: 30777 Telegraph Rd, Franklin, MI 48025

Scouts, please wear your Class A Uniforms.

Note the location change! The event will NOT take place at the Franklin Church. Additionally, please bring folding/camp chairs to sit on!

Races will occur according to the following schedule.

Timing

• 9:00 am Pack Arrival, Anthem, Interviews

• 9:30 am Lions

• 9:45 am Tigers

• 10:10 am Wolves

• 10:30 am Bears

• 10:45 am Webelos

• 11:15 am AOL

• 11:30 am Pack Finals

• 12:00 pm Open Bracket

• 12:30 pm Trophy Ceremonies

The 1st and 2nd place racers from each den will return for the pack finals (cars remain on site). 

This year we will be doing the Welcome, and National Anthem once in the morning then moving through the dens continuously throughout the AM. We encourage everyone to show for the 9AM introductions, but it also just fine to show up just for your Den start times noted below.

There is no necessity to ‘Check-In” once you arrive at the Church, as the check-in/Sign in takes place on Friday ….Hence, if a scout is not present at the start time of their race their car will run still be raced.

Awards

Trophies will be awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each den race.

Trophies will also be awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place racers in the pack finals. 

I know we have some future engineers, designers, and car enthusiasts in the pack! Therefore we will have design awards for the following categories.

• Best Overall Design

• Fast and Furious

• Most Unique

• Best paint job

• Most Intimidating

A panel of judges will vote after all the cars have been impounded and before the first race!

Open Bracket

This year we will be doing an “Open Bracket” for siblings, parents, etc. for anyone who wants to enter a car. The only difference in rules from the standard den racing is that wheel modifications will be allowed in the open bracket. The rest of the rules still apply for dimensions, and max weight.