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Thursday 21-10-99
Racing - Day 5

P1010117.JPGAurora at the final control stop at Port Augusta a few minutes before starting the final leg of the race into Adelaide. Betweem Glendambo and Port Augusta, under perfectly cloudless skies, Aurora raced its fastest leg, averaging over 90 kmp. Aurora increased its lead over second place Radiance from 10 minutes to 30 minutes.
P1010113.JPGDesert Rose from the Northern Territory University at the final control stop in Port Augusta. Desert Rose entered the control stop in fourth place behind third place Sunshark, second place Radiance and first place Aurora. During the previous leg, Desert Rose closed the gap between themelved and Sunshark.
P1010107.JPGAurora 101 and Radiance from Queen's university waiting at the Control Stop at Glendambo. Aurora led Radiance by about 10 minutes at the Glendambo Control Stop.
P1010090.JPGScout car from second place Queen's University. The antennas on the roof are used to rather a variety of information, from weather reports to car information. This information plays an especially critical role in a close race.
P1010074.JPGProfile of Sunshark's canopy at sunrise. This picture shows where Sunshark gets its name.
P1010069.JPGSunshark team member working on a computer program to extract trends and improve performance based on the over half million data points collected about their cars in the last several days.
MVC321X.JPGAurora leaving the Glendambo Control Stop.
MVC310X.JPGThe solar racing teams must be off the road by 5pm. Between 5pm and sunset, teams are still able to use the remaining sunlight to charge their batteries. The teams tilt the arrays during this time as the arrys produce the most power when they are perpendicular to the sun. The car shown here is Kanazawa's car KIT Golden Eagle.
MVC309X.JPGSpirit of Canberra ending the day's racing at 5pm.

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