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Post by 92hatchattack on Jan 26, 2013 17:55:38 GMT -6
Hello everyone. I was wondering if any of you pros can help explain our downfall in todays pinewood derby event.
The car isnt anything fancy. Got the weight right at 5.0, put the COG just under an inch in front of the rear axle, and polished the axles.
But heres the part that has me lost. Our wolfs ran first thing in the morning and our car dominated the heat. We ran by far the fastest times on the track. I paid attention all day long and no other car that raced that day even approached our slowest run of the day. The closest to us was about 0.015 slower than our slowest run.
But come to the finals the car is a dog. The first two runs were running nearly 3 scale mph slower than they were in the monring.. There are only 5 cars in the finals on a 4 track lane. We come in last of the first two races. than have a convincing first place win on the 3rd race, and on our 4th and final run the car popped at a poor joint in the track and came in 3rd place. All in all we didnt even place in the top 3.
What the hell happened while this car was in 5 hours of standby? How could it go from the fastest times posted all day to loosing the final heat so badly?
Can any of your pros explain to me what happened?
Thanks!
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Post by mike68 on Jan 27, 2013 12:13:18 GMT -6
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Post by 92hatchattack on Jan 27, 2013 15:31:34 GMT -6
Hmm, seems to be a common problem i guess. I just cant understand the drop from 213.5 mph to 210.x mph from one race to the next 5 hours later. I was sure we had it in the bag this year.
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Post by rkibby on Feb 12, 2013 3:40:04 GMT -6
asking this question is like asking why didn't I win the lottery? I Had 6 numbers. there is so many things that could of happened. mis handling, lack of graphite, etc. I'm more curious to the times then the speed, how many tenths, hundredths, or thousandths of seconds of changes were there? poor prep on a graphite car will last for about 6 runs. a really good prep you'll see 12 or lil more. I've seen both my self from my son and i's cars. few years ago, I was a lil upset because after the 4 runs in den and 4 runs in finals the car was getting quicker each run. I wanted them to keep sending it down the track till it quit. And I've had it where I seriously had to think if I even had graphite in the wheels because it was so horrible.
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