Race Update - 21-Oct-1999
16:50 PM Central Standard Time
We have crossed the line, in first place!
However, all is not over yet. What we have crossed is the "timing line".
We must still cross the "public" finish line
without breaking down in order to be officially declared the winner. This
we will do tomorrow.
3:30 PM Central Standard Time
We are about 80 km out of Adelaide and driving into a strong headwind
which has slowed us down. However, we still think we can make it by
5 PM. We have heard nothing about our rivals for a while now.
Fingers crossed!
1:20 PM Central Standard Time
We are still well out in front. We left the Port Augusta media stop
without seeing any other teams arrive there. Rumour has it that
Radiance are 40 minutes behind us. We have been averaging
92 km/h since Glendambo this morning, and are doing something in
the 90's now. We are flying along, with 306 km to go,
and we are hoping to make Adelaide before the end of the day.
The sun is shining on us!
10 AM Australian Central Standard Time
We are still out in front! Weather conditions are very good so far,
so we had a good battery charge before starting racing this morning,
and a small tailwind on the road.
We arrived at the Glendambo media stop
at 7 minutes to 9 AM, 12 minutes ahead of Queen's University's
Radiance and 29 minutes ahead of the Uni of Queensland's
Sunshark. We averaged 84 km/h up to that stop, and the
other two cars averaged about 74 km/h. Right now we are on the road,
averaging 94 km/h, moving along very nicely!