Probably well known to most of you, but in case you missed it, it’s pretty cool. The race has been going since 1987. There are more docs on it on that same channel. World Solar Challenge website
Oh man, I helped build one of these when I was a kid. Mostly I watched scooby-doo until they needed tiny monkey hands to crawl into the shell and hold a rachet in some awkward spot, but there was so much sanding of the damn foam block used to form the shell as well. Come out looking like a loonytunes character when you take the mask off, everything just covered in dust except your eyes and mouth…
Super cool to see it progress beyond garage built racers where 50% were so over-specc’d they removed steering linkages to save weight (the first time the course had a 90° turn at the start it disqualified so many teams and people were PISSED)
That’s so cool! When I was a kid word got around that you could write to an embassy and ask them to send you stuff about their country and it would just magically show up in the post.
I wrote to loads but the coolest package to arrive was definitely from the Australian one which included a booklet that had some details on this race.
That must’ve been so much fun to be a part of. It’s such a cool race, it should be getting a lot more attention imo. It could easily be covered like a huge sporting event.
