The Northern Territory, the state where the first half of the World Solar Challenge is run, actually hosted a Cannon Ball Run race at some time in the late 1990's.
From memory a Japanese bloke shipped his Ferrari over and pranged it into a race marshals vehicle at 200Km/H. Killing himself and the Race Marshal.
They cancelled the event after that and have never run it again.
I was a participant in the 2001 WSC we were one of the very slow teams. As already mentioned the Northern Territory has no maxiumum speed limit. Although the NT Police do inform race participants that they'll do you for dangerous driving if your speed exceeds 150Km/H. I was a passenger in one of the support vehicles that had to get somewhere in a hurry one morning. We ended up doing about 180Km/H or roughly 4.5 times faster than our solar car went during the race.
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The Northern Territory, the state where the first half of the World Solar Challenge is run, actually hosted a Cannon Ball Run race at some time in the late 1990's. From memory a Japanese bloke shipped his Ferrari over and pranged it into a race marshals vehicle at 200Km/H. Killing himself and the Race Marshal. They cancelled the event after that and have never run it again.
Because its an Australian race and we like confusing stupid people.
I was a participant in the 2001 WSC we were one of the very slow teams. As already mentioned the Northern Territory has no maxiumum speed limit. Although the NT Police do inform race participants that they'll do you for dangerous driving if your speed exceeds 150Km/H. I was a passenger in one of the support vehicles that had to get somewhere in a hurry one morning. We ended up doing about 180Km/H or roughly 4.5 times faster than our solar car went during the race.