The 1996 World Solar Challenge, 3010 km

Race Results
Placing Team Car Origin Time Speed
1st Honda R & D Dream Japan 33:32 h:m 89.76 km/h
2nd United High Schools of Biel sCHooler (*) Switzerland 35:00 h:m 86.00 km/h
3rd Aisin Seiki Co Ltd Aisol III Japan 37:18 h:m 80.70 km/h
4th Mitsubishi Materials Corporation Sun Challenger Japan 45:07 h:m 66.72 km/h
5th University of Queensland Sunshark Australia 46:24 h:m 64.87 km/h
6th Waseda University Sky Blue Waseda II Japan 46:38 h:m 64.55 km/h
7th Northern Territory University Fuji Xerox Desert Rose Australia 48:02 h:m 62.66 km/h
9th University of New South Wales Sunswift (*) Australia 56:32 h:m 53.24 km/h
16th Lake Tuggeranong College Spirit of Canberra (*) Australia 67:15 h:m 44.76 km/h
DNF Aurora Aurora 101 Australia Did not finish, owing to accident on day 1 while running 4th

(*) The car sCHooler was the Spirit of Biel/Bienne III from the 1993 race, with work done to remove some of the remaining problems. The car Sunswift was formerly our Aurora Q1 from the 1993 race. The car Spirit of Canberra was formerly our prototype car (and backup car) for Aurora Q1 in the 1993 race.

The final place achieved by NTU's Desert Rose did not really reflect its performance. Severe technical problems on day one put this car in 40th place, 640 km behind the leader, but the car went on to average over 74 km/h and overtake 33 other teams on the remainder of the trip to Adelaide.