The Team
Sunswift is a university student-led solar racing team. thirty students from the Faculties of Engineering, Science, and Business at the University of New South Wales volunteer their time and skills to design, build and race a state-of-the-art solar-powered car. We would not be able to exist without the generous funding provided by our corporate sponsors, private donors, and UNSW. People [...]
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, [...]
Race Day 5 – Thursday
IVy on the finish line. Summary With 567km to go before the finish line, and MIT hot on our tails, we had a big day ahead of us. If we wanted to make it straight to Victoria Square we would have to arrive in Angle Vale before 3pm. We arrived at 3:08pm. Not only were [...]
Race Day 4 – Wednesday
Summary We passed MIT at about 3pm and are now the number 1 silicon solar car in the race! We’re 5th in the whole race, and 4th in Challenge class. MIT are about 10 minutes behind us so we feel the pressure but are running the race how IVy needs it to be done. Tomorrow [...]
Race Day 3 – Tuesday
Summary We covered 681km today. No issues encountered at all, and we were cruising on average at 90km/h. We gained about an hour on MIT today and are hot on their tails for the top silicon car in the race. Mechanical No issues. Electrical No issues. Camp We managed to pull into the 10 minute [...]
Race Day 2 – Monday
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 [...]
Race Day 1 – Sunday
Summary We started off without a hitch, so much so we decided to take a nap about 2 hours in just to give some of the other teams a fighting chance. In reality we stopped for a driver change and to fix up the telemetry data, which got knocked out. We managed to gain back [...]
…And we’re back!
Good day ladies and gentlemen, Dan here for an update on our progress. I’ve taken over the helm of web updates so you’ll be hearing from me a lot during the next couple of days. Before I start this decidedly overdue update, I’d like really like to apologize for the media blackout. As you can [...]
