2006-2007

Details for Sydney finish – Monday

When the UNSW Solar Racing Team arrives in Sydney tomorrow they will have shattered the current transcontinental record by almost three days. The team and their car Jaycar Sunswift III are expecting to arrive in the Sydney CBD at 3pm tomorrow.
Time: 3pm Location: Circular...

Day 4 - on track to break record

Today we covered a little less than 800km's between Wirrulla and Renmark (near the SA/VIC border). Our drive took us through diverse terrain: from the arid outback, to the coast near Port Augusta, over the hills north of the Clare Valley and down past the Murray River at Morgan. The weather was...

Ceduna (day 3)

It is now our third day on the road and we have just passed Ceduna in South Australia. The team has made great progress considering we had significant cloud cover for our first two days of travelling.
Today, we woke up to a star-filled sky eager to get an early start. There was some...

Start of day 2

Last night the team camped on the side of the road near Higginsville, after travelling 695km's on our first day. We had planned to pull over at Widgiemooltha, but the owner of the local caravan park (which had no space) noted there were rampant snakes in the area, and advised us to drive ahead...

Coolgardie and beyond

After leaving in the rain this morning, the sun started to poke through gaps in the clouds as we headed west, producing the highest output we have ever seen from our array. Along with the weather extremes have been highly varied driving conditions, from the dual carriageway freeway's of Perth to...

A rainy but successful start

The team is now travelling through the hills outside of Perth after leaving from Scarborough Beach just before 8:30am. Perth’s Lord Mayor Peter Nattrass bid farewell to the team along with crews from channel 9, channel 10, the Sunday Times newspaper and local newspaper the Sterling Times....

A rainy but successful start

The team is now travelling through the hills outside of Perth after leaving from Scarborough Beach just before 8:30am. Perth’s Lord Mayor Peter Nattrass bid farewell to the team along with crews from channel 9, channel 10, the Sunday Times newspaper and local newspaper the Sterling Times....

One day to go

Yesterday the team set up at the University of Western Australia's Motorsport workshop. Work continued on battery characterisation, wiring in the four new solar panels and making logistical preparations for the event. Additionally, after taking apart the wheel motor because of a suspected 'noisy...

Perth!

Our first notable support vehicle incident for the trip was encountered this morning. Three and half thousand kilometres after leaving Sydney it is not so surprising that the vehicle towing the solar car trailer had developed a sizable crack in its fan belt. Fortunately, we have Arthur travelling...

The long (straight) road

After making it to Eucla on Thursday, we spent most of yesterday readying the car for a testing run in the afternoon. Due to unforeseen complications we had to pop back over to South Australia to conduct the testing run legally. The car drove well under the windy (but rather scenic) conditions of...