Going for Gold - Solar Teams Light Up at Victoria Park
Monday September 21, 2015
Sunglasses may be required to watch the most successful solar race team in North America, US ‘golden’ team, University of Michigan (U-M), take on compatriots Stanford Solar Car Team (SSCP), America’s top solar team, and local first time entrants, the University of Adelaide, in a few laps of friendly rivalry around the Victoria Park Criterium on Monday September 21, 2015.
In the lead up to this year’s Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, the U-M team, who touched down in Adelaide last week, will spin the wheels of their million dollar machine, ‘Aurum’ named after the Latin word for gold, on the renowned city track more famous for horsepower of a different kind. Also in town, the rival Stanford team are out to prove their revolutionary ‘Arctan’ also has the Midas touch. But new kids on the block, Adelaide University Solar Racing Team, (AUSRT), don’t intend to be overshadowed, saying their car ‘Lumen’ (Latin for light), is capable of shining just as brightly.
