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What do You Think ?
 what if you dropped a 1 pound weight from a height of 1 foot
and then dropped the 1 pound weight from a tall building...
Which would make the biggest crater ?
Designing your Pinewood Derby Body should take into account Science and Physics rather than just Style.. Sure a cool looking pinewood derby racer will make all the other racers look at your car and say.. Wow! Thats a COOL Pinewood derby car!..  But, After the Pinewood Derby Race, you probably will be taking your car home and no trophy IF you dont take the principals of Science and Physics and incorporate them into your Pinewood Derby Car.
But the Pinewood Professor says "No problem!" We can still make a real cool looking pinewood derby racer AND make it Fly right by the rest of the other cars. All you have to do is think about a few main ideas while designing your car..
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So.. what do you think about the One Pound Weight ?? Science and physics tells us that the Longer that Gravity has a chance to influence a Weight, the BIGGER  the Crater..  Every time..
Well, science doesnt actually "SAY" that, It says (in simplified form)  
Potential Energy = Mass (weight of your car) x Height (how high your center of mass is on the track) x Gravity

Well Let's apply some of that  "Science" to Pinewood derby Racing..
First, we need to talk about
Potential energy

Have you ever heard someone (probably one of the adults at your race) say, “I could just take a block of wood and make it run as fast as all those cars out there?”
Are you kidding me, no chance ! And I’ll explain why.
When your car is on the starting line, it has a limited amount of potential energy. I say limited, because the energy is limited by two factors.

1.) the weight of your car.
2.) How high that weight is up one the track.

Most pinewood derby rules allow the car to weigh up to 5 ounces (141.5 grams).
If you use less than the allowed 5 ounces, you are shorting yourself potential energy.
This would be bad.

So Cars that weigh 5 ounces have MORE energy than cars that do not..
Cars that WIN, always weigh the maximum..
If you are a few grams lighter than 5 ounces you will not be using all the POWER you have available.
The Design of your pinewood derby car body,  that's right, Your Pinewood Derby BODY is super important. You may be thinking aerodynamics or wind resistance - the smoother the better, and while that's true to some extent, It's not what we are really talking about here.. We are talking about the ratio between the amount of Pinewood and Lead Weight as well as the Position of it’s Center of Mass.
Huh? what am I talking about??
It can be a little confusing.. That's why we try to help Pinewood Derby racers such as yourself with our new DVD
Pinewood Derby Speed Secrets - The Science of Speed
which not only makes complicated principals of science- easy to understand, but also provides you with the best learning tool ever invented - the opportunity to SEE exactly how to do it!
Now we now know for sure that we MUST take Full advantage of Gravity (which is the only, I repeat -ONLY-- positive force you have Pulling you down the Slope of the Pinewood derby Race Track. You MUST take extra time and thought designing your pinewood derby body to take advantage of Every Ounce of potential energy available to you. Other Pinewood Derby Racers are trying to squeeze every bit of performance out of their cars and they will leave you in the dust and they will walk away with the trophy if you don’t fully explore this critical aspect of Pinewood Derby Body design fully.
When your Pinewood derby racer on the starting line it is Full of Potential energy
- Or at least as much energy as you have allowed it to have
(hopefully very close to 5 ounces). 
Gravity is the FORCE that is pulling down on it. 
 
When the race starts, gravity continues to pull down on your pinewood derby car until the track becomes flat. 
Now we can talk about My Favorite ZONE
THE TRANSFER ZONE
This transfer zone, slope track to flat track is THE critical area, which separates the winners from all the rest. When you look at the transfer zone from a side view, it may not look like much. Just a small change in elevation between the slope track to flat track, but when your cars center of mass reaches the flat track Gravity can no longer help it.
So you can see why it’s so important to have gravity act on the center of mass for as long as possible to squeeze out as much Positive energy as possible.
That's Why in our New DVD Pinewood Derby Speed Secrets, The Science of Speed, we show you what other racers dont know.
How to get MORE power out of the transfer zone than anyone else on the pinewood derby race track!

And More power from Gravity than the other Pinewood Derby Racers in your heat, means YOU have the advantage!
In Essence, All other things equal, YOUR pinewood derby racer will "WEIGH MORE" than all the other cars on the track at the Transfer ZONE.. And if your car weighs MORE than the other pinewood derby cars, YOUR CAR WILL BE FASTER!
Remember what I said about the 1 pound weight..
Now at the transfer zone, the other cars will weigh zero (no effective potential energy).  Your Car, If you follow our Easy to build procedures will weigh MORE than zero (your car will STILL have potential energy LEFT!)..
So when designing your pinewood derby car body for maximum potential energy we must:
Design to maximize the Concentration of MASS (weight) taking into account the TRANSFER ZONE.
We do this by optomizing the ratio of Pinewood to Lead Weight (or tungsten weight) as well as 
optomizing the Position of  Center of Mass with regards to the TRANSFER ZONE.
There you have it.. now you probably already know more than most of the pinewood derby racers you will be competing with but maybe not.. So Let's Keep Reading and Learning how Science and Physics applys to your pinewood derby car!
 
Of course, this is easier understood by SEEING it, than just reading about it - the transfer zone is so important that it is covered fully so you completely understand how to apply the information to your pinewood derby racer. So when you get a chance, pick up a copy of our NEW DVD.. We can send it right out in the mail to you and you will get it in a few days! Here's a Rave Review from one Happy DVD buyer!

Thanks again for your feedback and advice.  I believe your methods and theories are the best I’ve seen on the internet 
S.Clark 

Now, If your ready - Lets Click over to the next section on the website Weight Placement in your Pinewood Derby car!