Day 2 of the WSC Race (challenger class)

Sinag has passed the second control stop at Dunmarra and has travelled at least 633 kilometers using the power of the sun.

10 cars have already been trailered to the control stop. Sinag is not one of them. As of today, Sinag is at the 29th place out of 37 cars (includes the trailered cars).

All racers are expected to reach Alice Springs by tomorrow. Alice Springs is two control stops away from the current position of Sinag. The team is expected to pass Tennant Creek and into Alice Springs.

Sinag has to travel approximately another 600 kms tomorrow to Alice Springs.

Information presented here were collected from the WCS website.
http://worldsolarchallenge.blogspot.com/search/label/Results

Dennis Beng Hui-DLSU Manila (Comm Team)

Day 1 of the WSC Race (challenger class)

According to the information from the WSC site, Team Sinag started the race at 35th (Challenger and Adventure Class combined)position on Oct.21, 2007 at 8:34 AM.

Sinag has passed the Katherine Control Stop (1st control stop)at 4:12 PM is at 21st position based on the control stop reports in Katherine and Dunmarra.

From WSC, "For many the 316 km between Darwin and the Katharine Control Stop are the hardest in the whole event. The leaders are usually through Katherine by lunchtime on day 1, while others don't make it!"

As of latest report from WSC blogs, at least 3 teams have already encountered major or minor accidents (one of which is among the lead teams).

For more information on media releases by WSC, go to http://wsc.org.au/Media.Centre/Releases/index.html

For the route maps and control stop go to http://wsc.org.au/Be.Part.of.It/Maps.Routes/map.html

Godspeed Team Sinag.

Dennis Beng Hui - DLSU