Grand Prix Racing -

All About Fast Pinewood Cars


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Grand Prix Racing

All About Fast Pinewood Cars

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How good are your competitors' pinewood cars? When a very competitive pinewood car raced against a virtual frictionless car using mathematical models, it lost by two car lengths at the finish line. That's not bad. Your competitors are building pretty fast cars!

What about the performance of your Pinewood Grand Prix car? This website helps you take advantage of our research to build the fastest pinewood cars that your skills and science can. You may not end up with a world-record time, but you will have gained valuable insights and skills from your parent, teacher or leader that will benefit you for life.

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This website is researched, modeled and written by Lastufka Labs. The series includes manuals on Pinewood Grand Prix, Raingutter Regatta, Rocket Contests, Airplane Toss and other events. This material is for personal use only and may NOT be sold or distributed (electronically or otherwise) without written permission from the authors. See our page about a printed manual or download.

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Grand Prix Racing -

All About Fast Pinewood Cars

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