Well practice runs went fantastic last night he never came in less than 3rd and mostly 1st or 2nd. When they weighed the car for qualifying though it came in EXACTLY at 5oz even though my photos and my scale clearly show it slightly under. And I can attest to the accuracy of my scale thanks to it's ability to measure down to .00x oz and even can see the weight of a small piece of masking tape! Lesson for nest time. Don't go over 4.8 oz as my final weight before they left with the car was 4.976
Too much trouble for me. Wife said the scale they used wasn't even as good as the one I used. And as for a $20,000 scale frankly if they disqualified a kid with that $20k scale and all the poor kid had was a cheap postage scale I would go ballistic on the official. Where is a kid supposed to come up with that kind of thing? Frankly the whole PW derby thing I think is over he top in some ways.
Now, as for how the little guy did he came in a VERY close 3rd. So close in fact the kid who came in second almost gave the position to him to take the design placement. Than changed his mind, so my little guy placed for design and will be moving on to some kind of finals