Pinewood Racing

Name: Pinewood Racing
Rating: 3.6 (14 reviews)
Author: Adam Morrone

Pinewood Derby Management

Free · Designed for iPad

14 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Entertainment
Developer

Adam Morrone
Language

EN
English
Size

25
MB

Pinewood Racing is for managing and scoring your next Pinewood Derby event. Use PwR on you iOS device (iPhone or iPad). PwR lets input all your racers in their respective groups to race. You are able to start one race or multiple races and are able to switch between active races for the purpose of running multiple tracks at once. PwR will schedule all the races utilizing the Lane Rotation method, and upon race completion will provide a PDF of the full results that you can share. PwR will also handle Tiebreakers, in the event of a tie for the 1st, 2nd or 3rd place finish the app will create the race for you. Any ties beyond 3rd place will stand as ties. FEATURES: Lane Rotation Method Run multiple races at the same time Race up to 100 Racers using 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 Lane Tracks Provides a PDF results page you can share with others Handles tiebreakers Fast racer registration input with images Supported Races 2 Lane Track - Up to 100 Racers 3 Lane Track - Up to 100 Racers 4 Lane Track - Up to 100 Racers 5 Lane Track - Up to 100 Racers 6 Lane Track - Up to 100 Racers 7 Lane Track - Up to 100 Racers 8 Lane Track - Up to 100 Racers 9 Lane Track - Up to 100 Racers 10 Lane Track - Up to 100 Racers

Ratings & Reviews

3.6

out of 5

14 Ratings

Great App but…
03/10/2025

Alanl252
Overall good app, especially for our first time running a derby. I do have a few ideas that could make it even better. 1. Some sort of pre registration, then allowing us to check in after we weigh the cars. Registration took over 30 minutes because I was the bottleneck on the app. 1b. Or, having the ability for multiple devices hooked to the same event so we could double the speed of registration. 2. Ability to edit registrations after they are created. Had a few kids put into the wrong groupings, so we had to delete them and start over. 3. Randomized races. If the next race car is the fastest, and yours is also great, you’ll race them 3 times and you’ll have no chance of hitting the podium. 4. Have the tie breakers happen BEFORE the pdf is created. It was really confusing having multiple race pdfs to figure out the finishers. Related, the tie breakers assigned new race car numbers, which meant finding the cars was tricky. Thankfully we took pictures. Overall it went well, and we’ll likely use again.

Developer Response
Thank you for using Pinewood Racing as your derby manager. I expect a big update to be done this summer. There is a lot of room for improvements and your suggestions are really great. Looking at your comments (1), a speedy registration will certainly be in the works. Looking at something like self input on a device, display Qrcode, and race manager scans them in. (2) If any scout is put in wrong group, you can simply tap and hold then drag and drop them in right group. That is already in effect in app. (3)randomizing races and having multiple formats to choose from is in the works. (4) agree with you on handling tie breakers. I will look into how to handle that better. Thank you.
Great App but…
03/10/2025

Alanl252

Overall good app, especially for our first time running a derby. I do have a few ideas that could make it even better. 1. Some sort of pre registration, then allowing us to check in after we weigh the cars. Registration took over 30 minutes because I was the bottleneck on the app. 1b. Or, having the ability for multiple devices hooked to the same event so we could double the speed of registration. 2. Ability to edit registrations after they are created. Had a few kids put into the wrong groupings, so we had to delete them and start over. 3. Randomized races. If the next race car is the fastest, and yours is also great, you’ll race them 3 times and you’ll have no chance of hitting the podium. 4. Have the tie breakers happen BEFORE the pdf is created. It was really confusing having multiple race pdfs to figure out the finishers. Related, the tie breakers assigned new race car numbers, which meant finding the cars was tricky. Thankfully we took pictures. Overall it went well, and we’ll likely use again.
Developer Response 03/11/2025
Thank you for using Pinewood Racing as your derby manager. I expect a big update to be done this summer. There is a lot of room for improvements and your suggestions are really great. Looking at your comments (1), a speedy registration will certainly be in the works. Looking at something like self input on a device, display Qrcode, and race manager scans them in. (2) If any scout is put in wrong group, you can simply tap and hold then drag and drop them in right group. That is already in effect in app. (3)randomizing races and having multiple formats to choose from is in the works. (4) agree with you on handling tie breakers. I will look into how to handle that better. Thank you.
Good app needs a little tweaking but made our race go well.
06/19/2021

Cubmaster Dillon
Good app! Could use a randomized race order. Does a tie breaker style tournament not a double elimination style. Had to fully Disclose this to the racers. Everyone races at least twice. But those who only win one of their two in the first don’t move on to the next round. The next round will have the cars that won both races first round for a tie breaker. And so on. Til you get your final 3 racers to a final round. That this 25 car race went quickly about an hour and a half. Would use again!
Good app needs a little tweaking but made our race go well.
06/19/2021

Cubmaster Dillon

Good app! Could use a randomized race order. Does a tie breaker style tournament not a double elimination style. Had to fully Disclose this to the racers. Everyone races at least twice. But those who only win one of their two in the first don’t move on to the next round. The next round will have the cars that won both races first round for a tie breaker. And so on. Til you get your final 3 racers to a final round. That this 25 car race went quickly about an hour and a half. Would use again!
Good derby app
02/18/2022

K3vinish
Good app. I would like to have some sound effects when race initiated. Also an animated scroll on final results so each contestant can be announced one at a time with app. Regardless, I like this app.
Good derby app
02/18/2022

K3vinish

Good app. I would like to have some sound effects when race initiated. Also an animated scroll on final results so each contestant can be announced one at a time with app. Regardless, I like this app.
Glitchy
04/27/2021

nowaythrowaway
Used this for our Pack pinewood derby event. It’s a good thing we are a small group because it kept crashing on us. We ended up finishing the night using paper to keep track because we couldn’t rely on the app to work.Also, great for determining first place, but will not prompt for a tiebreaker at third place and I could not find a way to select and track only 2 kids to run my own tiebreaker.Overall, very frustrating experience. Won’t use again.
Glitchy
04/27/2021

nowaythrowaway

Used this for our Pack pinewood derby event. It’s a good thing we are a small group because it kept crashing on us. We ended up finishing the night using paper to keep track because we couldn’t rely on the app to work.Also, great for determining first place, but will not prompt for a tiebreaker at third place and I could not find a way to select and track only 2 kids to run my own tiebreaker.Overall, very frustrating experience. Won’t use again.