Here are the World Solar Challenge GPS positions as at 16:35 Sunday October 18 (Darwin time).
Calculated road distances are approximate, based on interpolation between towns. The second road distance shown (in grey) is adjusted to compensate for GPS delays (consequently the distance for Team Arrow is a guesstimate, although they were in fact just after Stanford at Katherine). Michigan, Tokai, Nuon, Twente, and Punch have now reached Dunmarra (633 km from Darwin). Michigan still leads. Twente were happy to be in second place, although Tokai has now passed them, and Nuon as well. Punch is fifth. Western Sydney are running well, and Lodz were looking good at Katherine, but Ardingly has had problems. All the teams have had a taste of fire.
The tracker for team 12 (Cambridge) is not working, although they are on the road. Durham trailered to Katherine to do repairs at the hottest spot on the road. See the tracker page for continued updates, although cars stopped for the night at 5pm Darwin time.
| 3 | Nuon  (Nuna8, Challenger)         |
Approx 633 km from Darwin | 82 km/h | (Adjusted 633 km from Darwin) |
| 21 | Twente (Red One, Challenger) |
0 km behind Nuon | 83 km/h | (0 km behind Nuon) |
| 2 | Michigan  (Aurum, Challenger)  |
0 km behind Nuon | 79 km/h | (0 km behind Nuon) |
| 10 | Tokai  (Tokai Challenger, Challenger) |
0 km behind Nuon | 80 km/h | (0 km behind Nuon) |
| 8 | Punch  (Punch One, Challenger) |
0 km behind Nuon | 80 km/h | (0 km behind Nuon) |
| 23 | Kecskemét  (MegaLux, Challenger) |
83 km behind Nuon | 76 km/h | (31 km behind Nuon) |
| 16 | Stanford (Arctan, Challenger)  |
39 km behind Nuon | 76 km/h | (32 km behind Nuon) |
| 30 | Arrow  (Arrow1-GT, Challenger) |
521 km behind Nuon | 73 km/h | (47 km behind Nuon) |
| 13 | Western Sydney (Unlimited, Challenger)  |
67 km behind Nuon | 72 km/h | (59 km behind Nuon) |
| 5 | EAFIT  (Primavera, Challenger) |
94 km behind Nuon | 72 km/h | (83 km behind Nuon) |
| 88 | Kogakuin (OWL, Cruiser) |
94 km behind Nuon | 71 km/h | (83 km behind Nuon) |
| 47 | Nagoya (Horizon Z, Challenger) |
118 km behind Nuon | 68 km/h | (105 km behind Nuon) |
| 40 | Eindhoven (Stella Lux, Cruiser) |
120 km behind Nuon | 65 km/h | (111 km behind Nuon) |
| 77 | Blue Sky  (Horizon, Challenger) |
133 km behind Nuon | 65 km/h | (125 km behind Nuon) |
| 25 | Goko (Musoushin, Challenger) |
143 km behind Nuon | 63 km/h | (139 km behind Nuon) |
| 14 | UKZN  (Hulamin, Challenger) |
161 km behind Nuon | 63 km/h | (145 km behind Nuon) |
| 17 | NWU (Sirius X25, Challenger) |
161 km behind Nuon | 63 km/h | (154 km behind Nuon) |
| 51 | Kanazawa (Golden Eagle 5.1, Challenger) |
172 km behind Nuon | 59 km/h | (166 km behind Nuon) |
| 33 | HK IVE  (Sophie V, Cruiser) |
180 km behind Nuon | 60 km/h | (172 km behind Nuon) |
| 46 | JU  (Solbritt, Challenger) |
196 km behind Nuon | 57 km/h | (189 km behind Nuon) |
| 11 | Bochum  (SunRiser, Cruiser) |
190 km behind Nuon | 55 km/h | (190 km behind Nuon) |
| 32 | Principia (Ra 9, Challenger) |
197 km behind Nuon | 55 km/h | (195 km behind Nuon) |
| 35 | Minnesota (Eos, Cruiser) |
215 km behind Nuon | 55 km/h | (204 km behind Nuon) |
| 36 | Anadolu  (Sunatolia 2, Challenger) |
223 km behind Nuon | 54 km/h | (212 km behind Nuon) |
| 82 | KUST  (Baek-Ho, Challenger) |
232 km behind Nuon | 54 km/h | (224 km behind Nuon) |
| 7 | MIT (Arcturus, Challenger) |
241 km behind Nuon | 52 km/h | (234 km behind Nuon) |
| 45 | Lodz  (Eagle One, Cruiser) |
248 km behind Nuon | 51 km/h | (237 km behind Nuon) |
| 75 | Sunswift (eVe, Cruiser) |
253 km behind Nuon | 53 km/h | (238 km behind Nuon) |
| 38 | Tehran  (Persian Gazelle III, Cruiser) |
297 km behind Nuon | 44 km/h | (288 km behind Nuon) |
| 22 | Siam  (STC-1, Challenger) |
300 km behind Nuon | 46 km/h | (294 km behind Nuon) |
| 9 | Adelaide (Lumen, Challenger) |
298 km behind Nuon | 44 km/h | (295 km behind Nuon) |
| 34 | Liberty (Solis Bellator, Adventure) |
298 km behind Nuon | 45 km/h | (295 km behind Nuon) |
| 26 | Durham  (DUSC2015, Challenger) |
311 km behind Nuon | 44 km/h | (311 km behind Nuon) |
| 80 | Beijing  (Sunshuttle II, Challenger) |
317 km behind Nuon | 42 km/h | (314 km behind Nuon) |
| 20 | Houston (Sundancer, Adventure) |
326 km behind Nuon | 42 km/h | (320 km behind Nuon) |
| 43 | Ardingly (Ardingly Solar Car, Cruiser)  |
338 km behind Nuon | 41 km/h | (331 km behind Nuon) |
| 18 | EcoPhoton  (Stingray, Challenger) |
373 km behind Nuon | 40 km/h | (333 km behind Nuon) |
| 31 | ITS  (Widya Wahana V, Cruiser) |
352 km behind Nuon | 38 km/h | (346 km behind Nuon) |
| 28 | Singapore  (SunSPEC4, Cruiser) |
356 km behind Nuon | 38 km/h | (348 km behind Nuon) |
| 15 | Solaris (DesTech Solaris, Challenger) |
376 km behind Nuon | 33 km/h | (373 km behind Nuon) |
| 42 | TAFE SA (Solar Spirit, Adventure) |
618 km behind Nuon | 0 km/h | – |
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