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Michigan Wins 2008 North American Solar Challenge

Posted by samzenpus on from the half-a-year-of-grey-sky dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The University of Michigan Solar Car Team won the 2008 North American Solar Challenge, crossing the finish line in Alberta, Canada on Tuesday after more than 50 hours of racing over nine days. The team successfully defended their title from 2005, the last year the race was held. Final results have been posted on the North American Solar Challenge website and will be officially announced at an award ceremony later today."

3 of 37 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Distribution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bah, little secret: Michigan gets a ridiculous level of help from industry. Most of the other teams don't have it so easy.

  2. Re:50 hours / 9 days by CityZen · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, but this race is not like Lemans.

    It looks like they scheduled it in stages (city to city) over 9 days. I'm sure that they had all teams complete the stage each day before starting the next stage. They probably gave themselves plenty of time to deal with cars that broke down and what not.

  3. Re:Distribution by cbc1920 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The race is set up in multiple stages, so that cars can travel more or less together. The winner is determined by the total elapsed time between stages. The final stage was only 200 miles, so the finish order was pretty much determined by then.