The 1999 World Solar Challenge

Race Results
Placing Team Car Origin Time Speed
1st Aurora Aurora 101 Australia 41:06 h:m 72.96 km/h
2nd Queen's University Radiance Canada 41:33 h:m 72.17 km/h
3rd University of Queensland Sunshark Australia 41:50 h:m 71.68 km/h
4th Northern Territory University Desert Rose Australia 42:14 h:m 71.00 km/h
5th Kanazawa Inst. of Tech. KIT Golden Eagle Japan 44:33 h:m 67.31 km/h
6th Tamagawa Tamagawa Super Genbow Japan 45.26 h:m 66.00 km/h
7th Lake Tuggeranong College Spirit of Canberra Australia 45:31 h:m 65.86 km/h
8th Massachusetts Institute of Technology Manta GTX USA 45:34 h:m 65.81 km/h
9th Michigan Maize Blaze USA 47:34 h:m 63.04 km/h
10th OSU OSU model S Japan 48:21 h:m 62.02 km/h
11th Solar Motions Cascade Cruiser USA 48:21 h:m 62.02 km/h
12th Helios Helios France 51:24 h:m 58.34 km/h

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