Welcome to Commander Dave’s Grand Prix Page
A Grand Prix a.k.a. Pinewood Derby is an opportunity to build a small wooden car and race against others on a gravity powered wood or aluminum track. I have even seen a track made from Plexiglas. By far the easiest way to judge the finish order and time is an electronic finish line detector. Also the addition of race management software makes keeping track of who races who, who won which race and who is up next much easier, allowing everyone including the people running the Grand Prix to have more fun.
I have fielded a couple requests for a Promotional Video for the Grand Prix, so I made one. Promo 1 is about 1 minute 30 seconds and shows a Block transformed into a car followed by clips from Grand Prix races that also make up Promo2 which is only 30 seconds long featuring music by ‘Six Days From Sunday’ to be used as a short Teaser. You can find these and other resources on my Media Page.
I have plans for my new track design available for download on my Media page. Construction of the track is documented on my track construction page.
You get to make cool looking cars and race them against other clubbers on a really cool track with a computerized finish line, and take the guess work out of racing, what could be better.