A personal diversion from weather and climate. Readers may recall my earlier reference to this:

I’m proud to say that team Watts did pretty well today: William won first place in his den, and second overall in the pack where he competed with cars made by boys older than him.

I think the ears made the difference. Too much wind loading.

Watch the race below:

This is the final den race, the PokéMobile is of course the bright yellow one.

Here’s the final pack race. William is pounding the floor with anticipation, rooting his car on.

The PokéMobile takes a close second place.

Our secret: properly aligned and polished axles, plus graphite saturation and working it into the axle surface so that it stayed on during the race.

My son was beaming. So was daddy.