Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2023

Aletsch driving along an outback road past the bush
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Race days

Place in the Challenger class
12th
Hours of racing
49:03
Kilometres, Darwin to Adelaide
3'021
Race days
6

Aletsch · Darwin to Adelaide · 22–29 October 2023

Our first race, a year and a half after the team was founded: Aletsch, our first car, drove from Darwin to Adelaide in six days.

Aletsch reached Adelaide after 49 hours and 3 minutes of racing, the last team to finish within the official time limit, 12th in the Challenger class.

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How the race works

The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge runs every two years across Australia: 3,021 km from Darwin to Adelaide along the Stuart Highway, on public roads.

We race in the Challenger class: single-seat cars that run on the sun alone, with a battery that may only be charged by their own solar array. The fastest time to Adelaide wins.

The cars may drive from 8:00 to 17:00. At five they stop wherever they are, and the team camps beside the road. At the control stops along the way every car waits 30 minutes.