Hey, I've been tossing around this idea of making a new kind of model car racing. For almost a decade, I've been making paper cars, and I wanted a little hobby sport to drive them in. Well, I remembered how much fun Pinewood Derby is (my 10th birthday party was an unsanctioned pinewood derby race, and a few years later I went to my little cousin's Boy Scout one), and I like the customizability of paper cars, and how I want to drive them, so I came up with this: Roll them down an angled sheet of cardboard.
The wheels don't roll, they just slide. I tried rolling wheels with no luck.
You can put clay weights on the bottom, and make different divisions. Their weight (heavier means faster in this case) should be proportionate to how fast the cars go, and have cars of the same class race together. For example, mini stocks and street stocks should have little to no weight added. Super Stocks and IMCA/UMP Modifieds should have a moderate amount of weight, Crate Late Models should have quite a bit more, and Super Late Models should be the heaviest. I'm still trying to figure out sprint cars, but they probably won't be able to beat the lap times of the Super Late Models, even though in real life they usually do, because their bodies are so narrow.
I also noticed that the clay weight is like DTR2's center of gravity. Wherever you put it, the car spins around it like an axis. So make sure you balance your weights.
I might post videos of them in action sometime.
Please let me know what you think of this idea!
