We are stopped for the night about 20 km south of the Devil's Marbles, around 1124 km from Darwin. This puts our speed for the day at 58.2 km/h, which shows what slow weather it was. It was a day for patiently working with the telemetry data to get the best out of the batteries. Once again, the car ran beautifully; the only stops we had were for driver changes.
Tomorrow we expect sunnier weather, so cars can be expected to run more on their merits compared with today. We hear too that the Solar Motions team from the USA has recovered from their accident damage and are moving through the field, so they must still be considered a serious contender.
Roy and Lawrie from Whirlpool have been with us thoughout the day, and have been good team members. They have promoted us to all their affiliated people in towns along the way, raising a lot of interest.
Here is a picture (taken by the Uni of NSW people) of us at our camp at the
end of the day, from their website. (This site has lots of good stuff about
the race. Take a look.)
