Rain, Gusts and Blown Tires
With yesterdays catastrophe of rain water and also a no sun morning team decided to charge the batteries as much as they can until 10:30. The first stage of the day was 196km from Gariep Dam to Middelburg. Two …
Drive through Sun & Rain
Team wake up at 5:30 and unsealed the batteries and charging under the beautiful morning sun. Around 8 o’clock our batteries were almost full and we were ready to start.
The first stage of the day was 120km long from …
Let’s Drive Ra27!
Scrutineering passed flawlessly. We are all pumped up to race again. Batteries are full, very nice open weather without any clouds and the most importantly team rested well. We are starting from the last position of all teams today, but …
Sasol Solar Challenge Starts!
The day we have been waiting for has come. It’s so good to be on a start of an event like this one more time. We are all keeping in mind what we have learnt from the last time. But …
No Solar Car for a Solar Race!
Nothing is going like a hot knife through butter. When we were shipping our solar car from Near East University on 11th of August the shipping company told us that the car will be ready in Pretoria in 17th of …