A: Race start (Darwin), B: Current location, C: Race finish (Adelaide)
CUER recently competed in the World Solar Challenge 2011, a 3000km race through the Australian Outback, from Darwin to Adelaide. You can follow the progress of Endeavour and view the latest updates sent back by the team on this page. You can also track CUER’s progress in real time at http://dashboard.worldsolarchallenge.org/.
Distance Covered: 3020km
Current location: Adelaide!!
Updated 23 Oct 2011 05:15
On Saturday CUER held one of its largest events to date, a full afternoon of presentations, mingling and even a little bit of road-testing at Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire.
As the home of many Top Gear tests, Millbrook seemed like the perfect place to invite a selection of some of our most dedicated sponsors to get an update on how the team did in the late World Solar Challenge last year, as well as look ahead to our strategy for the next race in 2013.
Being a test centre for military vehicles and new concept cars for manufacturers like Jaguar and Lotus, security turned out to be tight – very tight. All 450 acres or so of the complex is strictly prohibited for photographers without a specially-appointed photo minder provided by Millbrook themselves, which pretty much puts having to sign a form saying ‘we won’t take any pictures from our mobiles – promise!’ into perspective.
Anti-reconnaissance aside, we arrived at their ultra-modern Concept Centre and found ourselves immediately swept up by Millbrook’s wonderful hospitality team. This gave us a few precious moments to mingle with some of the sponsors who had chosen to arrive even…
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