Anyone have any Pinewood Derby tips/tricks?

The guy who won this years Derby...er blew away everyone else, showed me his trick. I'm going to try next year.

All of the previous ideas posted are correct and will work. The alignment is critical though. Using the notches already cut into the bottom of the kit cars will guarantee your car to be slow.

The trick is to flip the car over so the slots are on top and then re-drill the axle holes using a very precise drill or mill set up into the new bottom sides. That insures the holes are straight and parallel.

Combine straight and parallel axles with all of the other ideas listed on this thread and you are sure to have a class winner.......GOOD LUCK.