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Day 6
Starting 40km north of Glendambo the weather was looking terrible. We eventually arrived at 8:49am not cracking a terrible pace. We were trying to conserve as much battery capacity as possible in case the conditions deteriorated. The next driver change was at 12:29pm. We were holding 9th place...Day 5
First media stop at Cadney Homestead, which resulted in a spectacular stop in which the brakes failed to operate properly. Ingo had set the lifting arms up and was preparing to stop the solar car when the brakes didn't work properly. Georgie slammed into the lifting arms, nearly taking out Ingo in...Day 4
We had to turn our array off for the last hour before leaving, because our batteries were fully charged. Seeing a constant 1000W of power going to waste due to mechanical problems is a depressing sight. If you can’t store the power, you get punished twice for unreliability. Dot drove for the...Day 3
John started the day by taking pictures of the dead donkey with the solar car in the background. He now believes this cursed us for the rest of the day. Left on time getting a full charge in the batteries (had to tilt the array away from the sun as batteries full). Day 3 weather was perfect for...Day 2
We got away well in the morning, having to shoo a peacock out of the path of the car at the start. Our second tyre blew out at 8:30, front taking 4 minutes to fix (changed only the front). At 9:10 the brake calliper fell off. It took 30 minutes to make some new bolts up to size (John learnt the...Day 1
We rose at 4:30am after getting to bed at 2:00am. The car was unpacked and on the grid at about 6:00am. About one third of the cars were already on the grid, all the top teams (except Aurora). Dot was the first driver. The start went OK with a car not starting in front of us delaying us...[ 7 results ]
