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Chesapeake Conference Pathfinder 2001 Derby Race
at Atholton School in Columbia, MD

New Rules

Lubricant for Derby Cars

Show Car Rules Have Changed

Club Codes

New Official Club Codes

Pick Your own Club Codes

Derby Tracks

Main Race Track (Teen Races, Youth - Teen Runoff )

Second Race Track (Youth Races, Staff Races)

Distance Race Track

Lubricant for Derby Cars

We are now only excepting Hob E Lube as a lubricant for the wheels of the derby cars. The reason for this is because the Graphite would mess up our gem floors and the Pledge would slow the car up after a few races. The only why we could come to an agreement was to change to a specific type of lubricant. This lubricant is now being used by the Cub Scouts for there derby races and seems to be working out very well. We hope that every one will understand!

The rule is very simple you can only use Hob E Lube!
No Graphite, No Pledge, or any other lubricant!

Hob E Lube is available at the conference office for $3.00 a bottle. (it has a small tube to apply the lubricant directly on the axle of the car)

Show Car Rules Have Changed

We have defined these types of Show cars very strictly!

Best of Show
Best of show "Car" must look like a car made from one pinewood derby basic car kit (not the pre-cut kit). The car must meet all of the qualifications of the race car, except for weight (any weight is fine). the judges will be looking for craftsmanship, detail, paint quality, etc.

Most Creative
The Most Creative Design needs to begin with the basic car kit, including wheels and axles. the most Creative can look like any object (i.e. soda bottle, candy bar, flag, cartoon character, etc.) You may add anything onto the basic kit (objects, decals, beads --- anything goes!), you may even use more then one block of wood. This category is judged solely on what catches the judges attention as "Most Creative."

New Official Club Codes

The following is the list of codes that we will be using! They are kept year after year so we can compare the data from previous years with new years using these same codes.

*Non Club Staff*
AA	Conference Staff	Chesapeake Conference

*Chesapeake Conference Pathfinder Clubs*
AC	Atholton	Crusaders
BC	Baltimore City	Comets
BF	Baltimore First
BS	Baltimore Spanish	Missionary Lights
BW	Baltimore White Marsh	Cloudwalkers
BB	Bell Branch
BK	Berkeley Springs	Angels
SI	Blythedale	Susquehanna Indians
CV	Calvary
CS	Cornerstorne
DD	Dover	Delaware Diamonds
DK	Dundalk
FG	Forest Grove
FF	Frederick	Firefoxes
GR	Glen Burnie	Rangers
HE	Hagerstown	Explorers
LF	Linthicum	Friends
MM	Martinsburg	Mountaineers
MV	Middletown Valley
NH	New Hope
WC	New Life	Waldorf Wildcats
NM	Norrisville	Mountain Climbers
PK	Park
PP	Pasadena	Patriots
PT	Pikesville	Tigers
PO	Pocomoke
CC	Pr Fred/Patuxent	Calvert County Cougars
RG or RS	Reisterstown	Stargazers
SP	Spencerville	Polar Bears
WH	Westminster	Horizon
WP	Williamsport	Warriors
WB	Willow Brook	Pioneers
WW	Wilmington	Wolverines
WT	Wilna	Trailblazers

Main Race Track

Because we are expecting allot of cars we are expecting to have to use to tracks to get the job done on time. To do this we are now splitting up the Racing cars between two tracks. The Main Race Track will be the Frederick Track (our track) and will be used most of the time for most races. We will start out with racing the Youth then we will race the Run off for the Youth - Teen. This will get our final winner.

Secondary Race Track

The second track is also computerized just like the Main track and also uses the PineWood Racer Software and Interface. It's fully networked with both systems and both systems have access to the same card name database. This track will mainly be used to race the Teen and Staff cars. We would like to give thanks to Fulton Letourneau for the use of his track.

Distance Track

This track will be used for the distance race. The cars will start out like the other tracks (one in each lane) and then will rool off onto the floor and whoever's car goes the furthest will win. Just because you lost in the Race Track does not mean that you will louse in the Distance Track. We would like to give thanks to the Chesapeake Conference for this track. It was the old race track about ten years ago! It has been fixed up to work again. There is no computerized system installed on it because there is currently no why to measure the distance race!