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Speaker 1: What we also know is that the bridge Stone World's

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Speaker 1: Solar Challenge is fast approaching and teams have started to

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Speaker 1: arrive in Darwen ahead of the event, which is happening

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Speaker 1: on October twenty two. So these competitors, well they need

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Speaker 1: to have developed a solar powered vehicle capable of traveling

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Speaker 1: three thousand kilometers from Darwin to Adelaide with forty teams

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Speaker 1: from around the world taking part in the challenge and

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Speaker 1: joining me on the line to tell us more about

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Speaker 1: it is the bridge Stone World Solar Challenge Event director

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Speaker 1: Chris Sellwood. Good morning, Chris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. Very exciting time.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it truly is. It is such a wonderful event

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Speaker 1: and I've no doubt that there's so much work that

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Speaker 1: goes into it. Explain to us, mostly for anyone who's

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Speaker 1: not heard of it before, what exactly is the Solar Challenge.

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Speaker 2: Well, fundamentally, it's a design competition, and we have a

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Speaker 2: team of scientists who are the the backbone of the

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Speaker 2: regulations who come up with cunning ways to disrupt the

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Speaker 2: status quo, to make people think about future technology, innovative

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Speaker 2: ways of doing things, doing things differently, not just copying

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Speaker 2: what other people have found successful in the past. So

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Speaker 2: in that respect it certainly contributes to the wealth of

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Speaker 2: human knowledge. It's not just another form of motoring.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, and talk me through. I understand that this

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Speaker 1: year there's going to be forty teams taking part. How

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Speaker 1: does that compared to previous years that are taking part

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Speaker 1: and thinking so innovatively about the way they do things.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's quite amazing because it's we're back from the

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Speaker 2: COVID hiatus. Twenty one would have been the last time

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Speaker 2: we should have been on the road, but of course

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Speaker 2: Australia was shut and with ninety percent of the team's

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Speaker 2: coming from overseas, that was very, very disruptive. So we're

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Speaker 2: back after four years and it's to find that everybody's changed.

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Speaker 2: Of course, all the senior positions in the authorities that

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Speaker 2: we work with, everybody's change. They're all learning about the

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Speaker 2: World Trailer Challenge for the first time. It was almost

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Speaker 2: like starting over. It's very exciting.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't been difficult, like has it made it a

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Speaker 1: bit more difficult than what it would have been if

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Speaker 1: it had been able to continue to happen each and

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Speaker 1: every year.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think so by any event anyway, So it's

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Speaker 2: not every year, but yes, it has been particularly difficult

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Speaker 2: after a four year break to come back. But you

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Speaker 2: know that makes us real examine things and look at

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Speaker 2: things a bit differently ourselves. So it's all good now,

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Speaker 2: I understand.

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Speaker 1: There was an event yesterday as well at Hidden Valley

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Speaker 1: to talk us through what was on and how it went.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, that was very exciting too. It wasn't an

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Speaker 2: official event of the bridge Stoneworld Solar Challenge, but it

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Speaker 2: was a couple of our teams who hired out the

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Speaker 2: track and put themselves to the test, as it were.

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Speaker 2: And what's interesting about that is two of the greatest

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Speaker 2: rivals that we have, the Belgians and the Dutch who

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Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen, that Dutch team were in the lead

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Speaker 2: when they had a let's say, an unplanned incident. They

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Speaker 2: had a battery fire which meant today led to their

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Speaker 2: car burning down to a parlor dust and there was

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Speaker 2: certainly a lot of tiers around that and the Belgians

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Speaker 2: were right on their tail and they sailed through to

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Speaker 2: to take the crown. Thet they shared in the tears afterwards.

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Speaker 2: Because we're all solocar people into Solocar community, but there

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Speaker 2: is a lot of rivalry at that point. End.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet there is. Well, everyone wants to win, right.

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Speaker 2: Of course, of course, Well we'll tell everybody wants to win.

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Speaker 2: I think that we record it a challenger, not a race,

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Speaker 2: because the challenge is the extreme endurance and durability of

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Speaker 2: there's still only about maybe a bit under fifty percent

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Speaker 2: who make it. Yeah, and a lot of teams do

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Speaker 2: come for the experience and the adventure of being in

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Speaker 2: God's own country there coming through the territory on the

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Speaker 2: par of sunshine.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah, I reckon, it's just incredible. And I know

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Speaker 1: that there's a lot of people listening this morning who

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Speaker 1: be an opportunity for territorians to get a glimpse of

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Speaker 2: Absolutely it. There's a couple of a couple of opportunities.

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Speaker 2: One is that we'll be doing what we call our

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Speaker 2: static scrutineering, and that's the the inspection of the of

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Speaker 2: the cars for not only their not only their regulatory compliance,

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Speaker 2: but also their roadworthiness. And that will the static Scrouginewing

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Speaker 2: will take place at the Convention Center down on the

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Speaker 2: sixteenth of October, and we'll be going on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: probably Thursday for some hangers on. Probably Tuesday the seventeenth

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Speaker 2: will be a good day. We're planning on that being

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Speaker 2: top gun Tuesday and have the best cars in that day.

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Speaker 2: There will be a couple of cars down on the

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Speaker 2: of that Saturday for the waterfront activation.

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Speaker 1: That's all right, I'll be able to I'll have some

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Speaker 1: of it here as well, because I know that we've

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Speaker 1: show as well. Chris, that will be Yeah, it'll be

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Speaker 1: such a great event itself.

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Speaker 2: The start line itself at State Square on Sunday, the

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Speaker 2: twenty second of October. We will be forming up from

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Speaker 2: seven o'clock in the morning. Will be the arif you're

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Speaker 2: ensemble will be giving some entertainment and there'll be breakfast,

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Speaker 2: burgers and coffee around for that and people can wander

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Speaker 2: around look at the card hell life. Ask everybody to

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Speaker 2: vy they hope the start line and stand behind the

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Speaker 2: flag so they can watch.

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Speaker 1: Oh how wonderful, well, Chris Sell would it sounds like

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Speaker 1: it is going to be an incredible event. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for your time this morning. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for having a chat with us, and.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for your interest, Cody. And won't be long before

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Speaker 2: I shall be there too. I'm driving up next week.

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Speaker 1: All wonderful Well, we'll probably catch up with you as well.

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Speaker 1: I reckon once it's due to get started. Chris, so

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Speaker 1: lovely to speak to you this morning, and we'll talked

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Speaker 1: to you again soon.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Katie, Thank you