Pinewood Derby

Date: Saturday, February 21, 2026
Location: At St John the Divine Church, in Sumners Hall and the Scout Room.
Rules: See link at bottom of this page.
On-site check-in: Check-in and inspection will be REQUIRED before race day.
Racers are required to bring their cars to SJD (Scout Room) for check-in:
   During the Pack Meeting, February 19 (Thursday) between 6:30p and 7:30p
Cars must pass all inspections, including change in wheelbase rules, and will be assigned a racing number at that time.  After check-in, cars will not be available to racers until race day.
Race day
schedule:
      Lion
 
 
 
8:30 - 8:45
8:45 - 9:00
9:00 - 9:20
9:20 - 9:50 		 Check In (Scout Room)
Rules and Awards (Scout Room)
Heats (Sumner Hall)
Champs and Turtles (Sumner Hall)
      Tiger
 
 
 
8:45 - 9:00
9:00 - 9:15
9:15 - 9:45
9:50 - 10:20 		 Check In
Rules and Awards
Heats
Champs and Turtles
      Wolf
 
 
 
9:15 - 9:30
9:30 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:15
10:20 - 10:50 		 Check In
Rules and Awards
Heats
Champs and Turtles
      Bear
 
 
 
9:30 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:00
10:15 - 10:35
10:35 - 10:55 		 Check In
Rules and Awards
Heats
Champs and Turtles
      Webelos
      (4th grade)
 
 
9:45 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:15
10:20 - 10:50
11:00 - 11:30 		 Check In
Rules and Awards
Heats
Champs and Turtles
      Arrow of
        Light
      (5th grade)
 
10:15 - 10:30
10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 10:15
11:30 - 12:00 		 Check In
Rules and Awards
Heats
Champs and Turtles
      Open
There will be no open division races for adults this year.
Design contest: Judging will be done before the races and the winners will be announced during the rules briefings.
Volunteers
  needed at:		 1.  Set-up on Friday evening - 4:30p-5:30p
2.  Race day final set-up - 7:30a-8:30a
3.  Take-down and move-out - Noon-1:30p
For more
  information:		 Contact the 2026 Derby Chair, Phillip Brown at phillipb08@gmail.org,
or derby@pack55.org to contact the PWD coordinator.

Rules
Click to download the rules for the races and competitions on February 21, 2026.
     PDF format  or  Word format