Did someone say “Solar Car”?
We have the car!
No, I lied. We don't have the car. However, we just got off the phone with the shipping company, and they said that neither customs nor quarantine even looked in the container, and that we will have it by 2pm tomorrow when it gets unloaded from the boat. This is very excellent because it means we will get a chance to test it before the race starts.
We're going to spend tomorrow afternoon working on the panels, and aim to leave at dawn Wednesday morning (err... in this country its Monday today, so we get the car Tuesday afternoon and leave on Wednesday). This means we should have plenty of time to get to the start of the race before the race starts.
In other news, defending champions Nuon recently suffered an accident while testing- it looks like they had a blow out which knocked them off the road, similar to what happened to equinox, our previous car. They've been working around the clock the past couple days to get their car fixed up in time for the race. We all hope that they'll be ready in time- it's a beautiful car.
Expect more updates (and photos!) tomorrow after we get the car!
October 12th, 2009 - 13:43
The fact that customs didn’t check the container scares me on more levels than I’m prepared to accept. It is good news that you’re getting it in time to do a little testing. I’ve gotta applaud all of you, this really does seem like a legit (ish) blog complete with photos and a fancy map, keep up the updates its convincing me to join Solar Car when you all get back.