Michigan has been racing in the American Solar Challenge for eight days now and is currently, seems to be first in the Canadian prairie though on the record, Minnesota is the leader. As Michigan has said, it is too close to know for sure who really is first.
I’ve been following the race right here from Malaysia, keeping an eye on various teams’ blog and GPS tracker provided by organizer. I think is the first race ever in which I’m dependent on various solar teams’ blog and the GPS system. The usage of both tools might have happened before but for me, this is the first time I actually see the utilization of both tools.
Those blogs give a more accurate view of what is going on in the race from each competing team’s viewpoint. More importantly, those blogs give a more up-to-date report on the situation compared to the official site, which save the GPS trackers are updated only so often.
It’s true that those blogs are only updated once a day but with blogs visitors leaving useful comments behind, the blogs are practically being updated continuously.
If you are interested the official site is at NASC 2005. They have the GPS tracker here.
The leading blogging teams are, not in order…:
Michigan
MIT
Missouri-Rolla
Minnesota
Go Blue! Eh!