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sharing space with trucks and regular secured area with
traffic. At each stage, large crowds limited workforce;
turned out to welcome the participants as well as half and
and school children were given talks on full blind stages,
how the technology was being utilised. where information
relating to the route
There were a number of first entries was withheld until
this year – the Genuine JV Solar Car the night before the
built by the team of high school teams took to the
students, as well as entries from road. This forced
UNISA, the University of the Free State, them to strategise
Solar Flair built by a team of private at the last minute
engineers based in Mpumalanga, and without prior
the current World Champions, a team preparation.
of Belgian engineers which entered as
the Agoria Solar Team. “The teams
found these new
Strategy and adventure were the key developments to
Devil’s Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens)
themes for this year’s solar challenge, be quite daunting,
with the ultimate aim to cover the but exciting at the
greatest distance. To make the event same time, as they
more exciting, this year’s challenge required them to
incorporated special stages, which work together to
were: a marathon stage (which fix their solar cars,
started in Kroonstad and finished in navigate the route,
Gariep) that required teams to work measure speed limits,
on their solar cars in a closed and while also taking into
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