Overall Progress
Off at 8:03am, 3 minutes late, we sped off from camp without a snag. We covered around 600km, over 100km more than yesterday. Throughout the day radio protocol was tight, the fleet was safe and strategy performed well. The array damage was tolerable, and we managed to gain 30 minutes on MIT. They are the only silicon team ahead of us and we have our sights set on another big gain against them tomorrow.

We also managed to overtake Principia about 4 minutes before the end of the day, their camp is very close, so much so that we can see their lights on the horizon. We’ve setup camp about 15km north of Devil’s Marbles.

Mechanical
About 10 minutes before the end of the day we had a tyre blowout. The wheel was changed in 3 minutes and 30 seconds, an impressively small amount of time considering a portion was used deciding whether to change it at all, or just make camp.
“Hopefully we have enough small things wrong at the moment to keep the gods at bay” – Campbell McLaren.

Electrical
No big issues, the issue of the damaged cells was worked on some more and we’re confident that we’re now at the maximum power we can get with the bypassed cells.

Camp
Sometime during last night our generator blew. Trailer was tasked for fixing or replacing it, which unfortunately meant backtracking a few hundred kilometres to Katherine. They left at 8am and finally met up with us at our Camp south of Tenant Creek at 6:30pm with a repaired generator. By this time however Scout had already gone ahead to buy dinner for the team (as trailer carries the cooking stoves). We had chicken and beef burgers from a pub in Devil’s Marbles.

[Note: I am posting this from Alice Springs. Then next place we can stop with internet the next batch of updates will be posted.]