Race Update - Thu 14-Oct-1999
4:30 pm
It has been raining heavily all morning here in Darwin. Currently we
are still in scrutineering, with only the batteries left to be checked
out. Once that it finished, we hope that the weather will have
cleared up enough for us to do some practice for the speed trials
later this afternoon.
Our car is creating a lot of interest among the Japanese teams. Also here
we have caught up with the University of New south Wales team and the
Lake Tuggeranong College (of Canberra) team, both teams which started their
solar car racing with Aurora cars. There is also a very interesting team,
Solar Motions from the USA, with some fine technology, who could be the
dark horse in this race.
We had a long phone call from Viv Baddeley in Detroit today. Viv ran
previous races for Aurora, and has been heavily involved for many years.
He wishes us a terrific race, and is dying to be with us in Darwin right
now!
There has been some good publicity today too, with television interviews
with Channel 2 and Channel 10.
