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By Richard King
U.S. Department of Energy |
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BURLINGTON, WIS., July 9, 2003 - It's 11 p.m. after a long day trying to get everyone through scrutineering.
The last brake test was at 8 p.m., when the University of Arizona car passed, completing all inspection requirements. The team was so happy to know they can qualify tomorrow.
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| Photo contributed by Richard King |
| The driver of Turbulence, the University of Arizona's solar car, is all smiles after hearing that the car had passed inspection requirements and was ready for qualifying. |
Several teams, however, are on the edge and have more to do tomorrow before their cars pass. Toronto, École Polytechnique de Montreal, and McMaster from Canada, and Kentucky, Michigan and Yale from the U.S. all still must pass the dynamics station before going any further. All these teams require better braking or steering or both.
It rained a good deal of the afternoon again. We were conducting figure eights and brake tests in the rain. We had to in order to get though all the teams. I hope the weather is better tomorrow when the cars have to do laps all day.
The qualifiers are here in Burlington at a former test track for one of the car companies. It took me longer than an hour and a half to get here from Northwestern University, hence the late evening.
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