CAVALIER, N.D.- As of Friday, Western Michigan University’s Sunseeker remained in sixth place in the North American Solar Challenge as the WMU team neared the Canadian border.
Five cars, led by the University of Minnesota, which retained its first-place position, made it across the border at the Pembina-Emerson port of entry into Canada and on to an official race checkpoint in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The unofficial race status, which includes no time penalties, shows the top five cars in this order, based on their arrival at the Winnipeg checkpoint: Minnesota, University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Missouri-Rolla and University of Waterloo. Winnipeg is 1,633 miles into the 2,500-mile race.
The rest of the competitors’ times and standings are based on the cars’ arrival times at a checkpoint in Fargo, N.D., which is 1,382 miles into the race. Principia College and the University of Missouri-Columbia were close behind sixth-place WMU.
The race began July 17 in Austin, Texas, and concludes Wednesday, July 27, in Calgary, Alberta. Of the 20 cars that began the race, 18 are still in the running.
Go to AmiercanSolarChallenge.Org and click on “GPS Tracking” to see the current location of each car along the race route.
