Monday, June 8, 2009

Minnesota Wins

UMNSVP - Centaurus

The University of Minnesota won the 2009 Formula Sun Grand Prix, in both amount of laps and fastest lap. The U's Solar Vehicle Centaurus did 487 laps over the three days as well as the fastest lap time 0:02:20 on a 1.7 mile track. Check the full results here.
The Star Tribune has an article here.
The University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project web page, twitter, and flicker.
The team has started work on Centaurus II.
Solar cars always seem to look like something out of the future a weird UFO or something.