Just when you thought pinewood derbies were only for scouts, Marie’s parent’s ward’s Elders Quorum held one for adults. Yep for Elders. The plan was to enter two cars in the derby, Dad with James’ car and Lee using his 10+ year old car. Lee however was out of town and not able to compete, James therefore thought I should enter it in place of Lee.
Well we did, I was not very confident in the old car. We did get to choose it’s number and I was able to get my lucky 21 number. In the first heat the running was fast, my confidence in a good showing dwindled. Which was just fine since I was more interested with the Root Beer floats being served anyway.
Then in heat 3 came my turn to run. So with James cheering our car on it ran to a 1st place finish. The car ran three more times for two more 1st place finishes and one 2nd. After all the other cars had ran they calculated the time and announced our car would run in the final heat with the top four cars. In that heat we cheered it on to a 2nd place finish overall. Not bad for a car we had little hope for.
2010 Elders Quorum Pinewood Derby Trophy of Awesomeness
The times of the championship heat
JP
Marie
