Like all good pinewood derby cars, the success of [ilektronix]’s entry relied on the overall design. The wooden chassis cleverly hugs the raised guide in the track, and the slight downward angle ...

The whole silver Pinewood Derby track amazed Mike Shambaugh Saturday morning. The tracks he was used to were 75 years old, wooden and, well, just regular old lanes for regular old Pinewood Derby cars.

The aluminum track provided a perfect surface to leverage ... How would you cheat at the Pinewood Derby? Fail of the Week is a Hackaday column which celebrates failure as a learning tool.

In case you don't know, a pinewood derby where kids build a car out of a block of wood, add some nails for axles and plastic wheels and then race them head-to-head on a length of track with an ...