World Solar Challenge
1999
The 1999 World Solar Challenge was finally won by a "home" team, the Australian Aurora team's Aurora 101 took the prize while Queen's University was the runner-up in the closely contested WSC so far.

World Solar Challenge

Section Title: 1999
Table Section Text: The 1999 World Solar Challenge was finally won by a "home" team, the Australian Aurora team's Aurora 101 took the prize while Queen's University was the runner-up in the closely contested WSC so far.

Results

Place	Car no.	Team	Car name	Class	Country	Date in	Time in	Distance (km)	Total Time (HH:MM)	Avg Speed (km/h)

1	101	Aurora	Aurora	Silicon/Exotic	Australia	Oct 21	16:36	2998.7	41:06	72.96

2	100	Queens University	Radiance	Silicon/Exotic	Canada	Oct 21	17:03	2998.7	41:33	72.12

3	52	University of Queensland	Sunshark	Silicon/Exotic	Australia	Oct 22	08:20	2998.7	41:50	71.86

4	15	Northern Territory University	Desert Rose	Silicon/Exotic	Australia	Oct 22	08:44	2998.7	42:14	71.00

5	3	Kanazawa Institute of Technology	KIT Golden Eagle	Silicon/Exotic	Japan	Oct 22	11:03	2998.7	44:33	67.31

6	8	Tamagawa Solar Challengers	Tamagawa Super Genbow	Silicon/Exotic	Japan	Oct 22	11:56	2998.7	45:26	66.00

7	10	Lake Tuggeranong College	Spirit of Canberra	Silicon/Exotic	Australia	Oct 22	12:01	2998.7	45:31	65.86

8	6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Manta GTX	Cut-out Class	United States	Oct 22	12:04	2998.7	45:34	65.81

9	2	University of Michigan	Maize Blaze	Silicon/Exotic	United States	Oct 22	14:04	2998.7	47:34	63.04

10	24	Osaka Sangyo University	OSU Model S	Silicon/Exotic	Japan	Oct 22	14:51	2998.7	48:21	62.02

11	4	Solar Motions	Cascade Cruiser	Private	United States	Oct 22	14:51	2998.7	48:21	62.02

12	59	Helios	Helios 2	Silicon/Exotic	France	Oct 22	17:32	2998.7	51:24	58.34

13	1	Tokai Shoyo High School	Shoyo Falcon	Secondary School	Japan	Oct 23	9:50	2998.7	52:20	57.30

14	26	SA Solar Car Consortium	Ned	Silicon	Australia	Oct 23	12:43	2998.7	55:13	54.31

15	999	Jona Sun	Jona Sun	Private	Japan	Oct 23	13:15	2998.7	55:45	53.79

16	65	Tokyo Salesian Polytechnic	Ikuei Neo II	Silicon	Japan	Oct 23	14:21	2998.8	56:51	52.75

17	16	Junkyard	Junkyard	Private	Japan	Oct 23	14:24	2998.7	56:54	52.70

18	50	University of New South Wales	Sunswift II	Silicon/Exotic	Australia	Oct 23	14:44	2998.7	57:14	52.39

19	5	Aoyama Gakuin	AGU Aglaia	Cut-out Class	Japan	Oct 23	15:51	2998.7	58:21	51.39

20	41	Southbank University of ESC	Mad Dog	Silicon/Exotic	UK	Oct 23	16:41	2998.7	59:11	50.67

21	23	Central Queensland University	Capricorn Solar Flair	Silicon	Australia	Oct 24	8:57	2998.7	60:27	49.61

22	142	University of Missouri-Rolla	Solar Miner II	Cut-out Class	United States	Oct 24	11:55	2998.7	63:27	47.26

23	35	University of Minnesota	Aurora II	Cut-out Class	United States	Oct 24	12:01	2998.7	63:31	47.21

24	63	Futura	Futura 2	Private	Italy	Oct 24	13:42	2998.7	65:12	45.99

25	124	University of Waterloo	Midnight Sun V	Cut-out Class	Canada	Oct 25	14:45	2998.7	75:15	39.85

26	2001	Kirenjaku	Kirenjaku IV	Private	Japan	Oct 26	12:00	2998.7	81:30	36.79

27	634	Kashiwa kai-Musashi Tech	Musashi	Cut-out Class	Japan	Oct 26	13:38	2998.7	83:08	36.07

28	22	Shiga SPD Polytech College	Polytech Spirit	Silicon/Exotic	Japan	Oct 26	14:09	2998.7	83:39	35.85

29	13	Kormilda College	Towards Tomorrow	Secondary School	Australia	Oct 26	2998.7	withdrawn due to time penalties

30	18	Annesley College	EOS	Secondary School	Australia	Oct 24	1842.0	withdrawn

31	27	Detlef Schmitz	Helio Det 4	Private	Germany	Oct 23	1591.0	withdrawn

32	34	Club Solar Car Denmark	Solar Car Denmark 3	Secondary School	Denmark	Oct 23	1489.0	withdrawn

33	28	Sunspeed Singapore Polytech	Sunspeed 1	Silicon	Singapore	Oct 21	987.0	withdrawn

34	12	Dripstone High School	Aquila	Secondary School	Australia	Oct 20	830.0	withdrawn

35	42	Southern Cross College	Secondary School	Australia	Oct 20	830.0	withdrawn

36	58	Newburgh Sol Machine	NFA	Secondary School	United States	Oct 19	522.0	withdrawn

37	1999	Winston High School	Acclivus	Secondary School	United States	Oct 19	475.0	withdrawn

38	33	Tsuroka National College of Technology	Green Leaf IV	Silicon	Japan	19/10	421.0	withdrawn

39	9	Solar Stealth	Solar Stealth	Secondary School	United States	Oct 19	387.0	withdrawn

40	51	Mannum High School	Secondary School	Australia	Oct 17	70.0	withdrawn

Sentence(s)

The Sunswift IV built by students at the University of New South Wales, Australia was the winner of the Silicon Class, while Japan's Osaka Sangyo University's OSU Model S won.

final_sentence: The Sunswift IV built by students at the University of New South Wales, Australia was the winner of the Silicon Class, while Japan's Osaka Sangyo University's OSU Model S won.