Day three

With slightly better performance from our solar array today, our team was able to proceed with an average speed of around 80km/h. Further to this we overtook three vehicles this morning, Umicar (Belgium), Solution (Netherlands) and Southern Aurora (Australia). We passed the Alice Springs control point this afternoon, and are currently camped near Erldunda, roughly 650km's from where we set out this morning. Our car ran very well today, apart from the control point, we only made three short stops, two to change drivers and one to repair a flat tyre. We got our flat only 20 minutes before we were due to stop for the evening, but we're not too disappointed considering that was our first flat during racing hours over the last three days. When we stop in the evening at around 5pm we are allowed to tilt our solar array towards the sun to charge our batteries. The same applies in the morning from sunrise till 8am, so one of the challenges during the race is to find a suitably exposed campsite in the 10 minute time-penalty-free window between 5 and 5.10pm!