Endeavour doing what she does best on the Stuart Highway just north of Alice Springs Credit: CUER

Today Endeavour rolled into Alice Springs after four hours of flying along the Stuart Highway at an average speed of 73kph, at times travelling at over 100kph. We have reached the half way point despite our dying battery pack and this is thanks to a caffeine saturated electronics team and the determination of 17 Cambridge students ready to battle on through the Outback whatever it takes.

We may have had to trailer Endeavour in both the morning and evening but we still covered 286 solar kilometres. Endeavour is still very much in the race even if she is some way behind it. With over 1500km under our belt, CUER is ready to face the second half of the race and clock up as many kilometres under the sun as possible. We can still make a good race position regardless of the time or day we arrive in Adelaide and the team are all working flat out to make that happen.

We know that even against all odds; the battery cells are dying off one by one, time is running thin, almost 1500km stretch out ahead of us, but we will make it. Endeavour heads down the Stuart Highway at 8am tomorrow with nothing but red sand and scrubland stretching for thousands of kilometres around us but with a sense of adventure and desire to succeed driving her on. At 5pm we shall stop as we have every night, and camp wherever we find ourselves. It is 10:10 in the evening here in Australia and we are camped out on the red sand of the desert under the Southern Hemisphere stars whilst the electronics team work on Endeavour under the glow of a flood-light to make sure that she is ready to roll again tomorrow.

Endeavour is not out of it yet!