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Delft University wins World Solar Challenge car race Oct 10th 2013, 18:25, by Martyn Williams, IDG News Service A team from Delft University in the The Netherlands won the World Solar Challenge, a biennial cross-Australia race that puts solar cars up against harsh driving conditions. The team and its Nuna 7 car (shown above) crossed the finish line in Adelaide on at 10:03 a.m. Thursday after completing the just over 1876-mile race in just over 33 hours—an average speed of just over 56 miles per hour. The cars left Darwin on Australia's northern coast on Sunday and raced over the last five days, stopping in the evening and camping along the route. The race crosses the Australia desert making it a tough journey for even conventional cars. It's the fifth time Delft University has won the race. The university was victorious from 2001 to 2007 but lost its crown in the last two years to Japan's Tokai University, which came in second place this year. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: nuna_7_and_team-100057433-small.jpg

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