The last two days have involved a lot of driving. Lots of driving, and not a whole lot of solar-car-ing. I’ve been up the back of the field with the slower teams. It hasn’t been the most scintillating race. Setting the scene. once more, I’m sitting amongst a whole bunch of high school students in Alice. Two of them are watching an episode of Stargate, there’s gossip going on about two of them who’ve hooked up during the race, and the poor teacher is juggling all of this, and the fact that his solar car isn’t working so well. Shocker!
I started out yesterday with the Sinag team, getting up at 5:30 in order to set up the solar array to charge. We left at 8:05 (supposed to leave at 8:00, but their computers weren’t working in the support car, so they waited in order to sort it out). We drove for a while, had a few tyre changes, and finally made it in to Dunmarra. We made it before the control stop shut by 2 minutes! (2:58). We were the last ones in, and because of that, I didn’t get another solar car to go with. Sigh. Got in a car with some people and headed down the road. Got to dusk, and we camped at Renner Springs for the night (after a pretty decent meal of corned beef and veggies). The next morning we headed along to Tennant Creek, stopping by all the random solar cars which were on the side of the road on the way in.
When we got there, I sent some faxes before picking up my next solar car: Leeming. We trailered right in to Alice Springs. So I made it 800km today. We headed in to the control point and found all the other solar car teams. We passed Sunswift on the way in. Not sure what’s happened to them, but they’re behind our pace from last time around! Hrrmm.
Anyway. I switch teams tomorrow morning, and I’m hoping that I end up with one of the ones which we’ve just passed - looking forward to a little driving. :-).
