2024 Grand Prix
WEDNESDAY MAY 8, 2024
6:00 - 7:30
Everyone is invited to cheer the cars across the finish line and celebrate the end of the regular Awana year!
Schedule:
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm Grand Prix Registration & Car Check - come anytime during this time to get registered and make sure your car meets all the requirements
6:15 pm Grand Prix Race starts
Schedule:
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm Grand Prix Registration & Car Check - come anytime during this time to get registered and make sure your car meets all the requirements
6:15 pm Grand Prix Race starts
- Sparks (K-2) will race first
- 3rd-6th Grade will race second
- Youth Group/Adults will race last
GRAND PRIX INFORMATION TO BUILD YOUR CAR
Basics:
To fit on the track, your car has to match these specs.
Basics:
- Do most of the work yourself, but if you get some help from your grown-up, that's ok.
- You have to make your car so it fits the track, but you can design it to look however you want it to.
To fit on the track, your car has to match these specs.
- Length - not more than 7 inches
- Width - not more than 2.75 inches
- Height - not more than 3 inches
- Distance between the wheels - at least 1.75 inches
- Weight - not more than 5 ounces
- Clearance (how far the bottom of your car should be from the surface it's sitting on) - at least 3/8 of an inch.
- Use the wood, wheels and axels that came in your kit.
- You can't use wheel bearings, bushings, washers or springs.
- You can add decals, tiny little drivers, a steering wheel, trim, paint and other stuff like that. (But your car still has to match the specs listed above.)
- You can't have parts on your car that hang out in front of the starting pin on the track.
- If you have any questions about whether your car is legal, ask your leader.
- Whittle, saw or carve the wood to create the shape you want. (Get help from an adult for the dangerous stuff.)
- It's a good idea to sand your car. You might also want to seal it and paint it.
- You can lubricate the axels to reduce friction.
- You can sand the bumps and the little sticky-out-things from the wheels, but they have to stay the size and the shape they were when you got them.
- Put the wheels on the axels and then tap them into the slots on the wood block. you can use glue to keep the axels in place.
- Your car will look a lot nicer if you paint it. It usually takes two coats. And then wax it to make it shine.
- Use decals to put your number on your car.
- Have fun!