Best Handywork

Well, the black stallion or black lightening or midnight special made it's appearance at the pinewood derby this evening.  The car looked great.  It was the same basic design as Jack's 2nd place car of 2 years ago.  I thought we had it dialed in.  We had graphite on the wheels, pretty much everything.  We were slow.  I was looking at some of the cars that were running fast and there seems to be a trick with having the wheels off set a little bit.  We went for straight, well mounted wheels that would ride level on the track.  That is not the secret.  Ben Murray ran a really fast car tonight. His dad told me there is something you do with the wheels that causes the car to go faster.  Maybe I will remember this information next year and can set Andy up with the winning formula.  As it was his car did look great and he did win a handful of races.  After the official derby the kids like to race their cars down the track repeatedly.  Andy's actually got faster as time went.  Maybe his wheels got messed up or something.  Anyway, he beat some of the cars that were faster than his in the derby.  He raced once against Ben and lost but it was actually closer than I thought it would be.  Anyway, another pinewood derby down.  Feels good.  One more to go - unless of course we get the older boys competing or the men in the ward get down on this.  Could be exciting.  Andy did win an award tonight for "Best Handywork".  He was super excited about that.  So there you go, the Midnight Special came in with a win of some sort.