Testing Run 1
Bright and early at 8am, Sunswift’s solar racing team gathered at the workshop, enthusiastic for a day of testing Ivy at Eastern Creek Raceway. This would be the first time that many new recruits would have a chance to see the car in action and understand what is actually involved in preparing for a testing [...]
Testing Run Preparations
With our first testing run for the new team on the horizon the following week and with the car not having run under its own power for a good 4 months, we decided to pull it out and drive it around the car park to make sure all the major systems are still functioning. This [...]
Welcome back!
Sunswift is BACK! After a long spell between updates we’re back on the radar. Expect to see more regular updates coming from the new team. Since you last hear from us here at Sunswift many new and exciting projects have been brewing in the background and we’ve had a number of new faces in new [...]
Carbon Update to Smokey Joe
Since our last carbon update things have been coming along extremely well with many hours dedicated to our composites work, plying our trade and improving all the time. To date we have produced 3 lower spats (fairings) and two upper spats and have another upper spat ready to be cooked tomorrow morning. The last few in [...]
Carbon Update
This week carbon building phase officially commenced. As the team decided to purchase a new solar array for this year’s race we thought it prudent to also build a new top shell enabling two functioning arrays/top-shells, one for the race, one for training and public displays. Some minor adjustments have been made to the new [...]
Video Blog #2 – Testing Run
Wednesday Test Run from UNSW Solar Racing Team on Vimeo.
We’ve started a video blog!
Enjoy this first entry of hopefully many video blogs about what we’re up to in the workshop. Saturday’s a Workshop Day! from UNSW Solar Racing Team on Vimeo.
Sunswift Returns!
After a brief hiatus during the exam period the team were back in full force at the workshop today. With the weather back at its best, nearly a full contingent of team members converged upon the workshop to continue our WSC11 campaign. To start the day off a general team meeting was scheduled for 10am, [...]
