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Advantages: The system is straightforward and moves quickly. Each car has at least two chances to advance. Disadvantages: Certain track lanes might be faster than others. Some fast cars can be eliminated early if they are in the same part of a bracket. Once a race car is eliminated, the Cub Scout who built it may lose interest in the rest of the derby.

To use this method, your track must be equipped to record individual race times. Cars are scheduled to race once in each lane of the track, then the time for every run is compiled, and the car completing the heats in the least amount of time is the winner.

Other cars can be placed according to their elapsed time, too. Advantages: this system finds a clear winner and all the places that follow. Each Cub Scout gets to run his car once on every lane. Disadvantages: heats that involve running every car in every lane can be more time-consuming than other systems. If working together on designing and building the cars is more important to your pack than declaring an ultimate winner, using a "schedule-free" racing system might work best.

It allows teams to run their cars on the track against other teams of their own choosing. To manage the races, pack leaders can give each Cub Scout a number of tokens good for one race each.