MISSION
STATEMENT
SunRace
is a sustainable technology development and energy management challenge.
The
SunRace challenge aims to encourage young people to achieve success through
technical excellence, strategic skills and hands on involvement. These are the
engineers and scientists that will deliver the sustainable technology of the
future.
SunRace
is conducted in the public domain and on public roads, free of charge, to reach
and inspire the widest possible audience to be aware of the imperative of these
emerging technologies and the exciting new developments taking place now.
SunRace seeks to recognise innovation and excellence both in academia and industry.
SunRace
is ‘ Brain Sport for the 21st Century’ - not a ‘motor sport
race’ -
there are no ‘race driver’ skills required by SunRace team drivers or
support vehicle crews - just a passion for a sustainable future.
SunRace
'04
The World’s Most Challenging Solarcar EV Circuit
MELBOURNE MUSEUM
- ALBURY - GOULBURN - SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK -
SYDNEY OPERA
HOUSE - CANBERRA - WAGGA - WANGARATTA - MELBOURNE FEDERATION SQUARE
SunRace
takes to the Australian Solar Super Highway!
SunRace
’04 -17 to 26 February 2004 - set to take Solarcars out of the outback and
into the main stream - Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra - nearly 2000 km over 10
media intense days via many of our major capital and regional cities - an
audience of more than half Australia’s population
SunRace
‘04
- promoting sustainable energy and transport through the ultimate icon of
sustainable technology - the visually spectacular solarcar - a
moon-shot of what a sustainable future might be.
This is SunRace ’04.
It will be the world’s most challenging Solarcar - Electric vehicle
circuit event and will certainly be the most exciting, media intensive SunRace
to date.
Nationally
and internationally renowned SunRace is now entering it’s 8th
consecutive year – it has become nationally and internationally renowned for
it’s high profile Award winning promotion of sustainable energy and transport
technology to government, community and the corporate sector.
The
Challenge of ‘Brain Sport’
SunRace
can be found in every media form throughout the world, engaging young people in
Australia and abroad in the very challenging ‘Brain Sport’ of Solarcar and
Electric Vehicle competition. Already Solarcar teams, including the record
breaking ‘Aurora 101’ and Brazil’s ‘SunBar’, Electric Vehicle Teams
and production Electric Hybrids are lining up for 2004.
SunRace
’04 will dramatically increase it’s media reach in it’s quest to take
forward a message of sustainability to many millions of people in Australia and
beyond.
A
demanding new ‘Two Stage’ 7 day 2000 km Melbourne - Sydney route and the
very best of Australia’s high profile venues - and non stop media coverage.
There are few Australian events of such duration or media profile.
Award winning SunRace Media Program - SunRace Launch
The
SunRace ‘Banksia Award’ winning media program will begin in January 2004
with an Official Launch of SunRace in both Melbourne and Sydney. The SunRace
media team from the Waters Group will again join with SunRace media partners,
AAP MediaNet, and ‘The Australian’ to deliver the very extensive and
enviable national and international media coverage which has become a SunRace
trademark.
SunRace
’04 - Scheduled Program
Melbourne
Museum Plaza ‘Start’ - Stage 1
In
February 2004 the fast growing number of SunRace Solarcar and EV teams will
begin the first stage of the Melbourne to Sydney
journey with the Official ‘Start’ on the spectacular Melbourne Museum
Plaza. In the first 3 days they will have travelled to the overnight SunRace
Host Cities of Albury and Goulburn. Each morning and afternoon the vehicles are
on display in the Host Cities.
A
new ‘Media Stop’ schedule
A
new high profile ‘Media Stop’ schedule will see the SunRace teams enter the
towns and cities of Seymour, Benalla, Holbrook, Gundagai and Marulan, stopping
to engage with media, community and schools as they travel the Hume Highway to
Sydney. A new format will confine event timing to the highway. Each Host City
and Media Stop presents VIP media opportunities.
Sydney
Olympic Park Solar Tower ‘Finish’ - Stage 1
The
Olympic Boulevard, flanked by the symbolic solar towers at Sydney Olympic Park,
one of Sydney’s most internationally renowned venues, will again be the
setting for a VIP welcome to the SunRace teams for the Sydney ‘Finish’ of
the first stage of SunRace ’04.
Sydney
Opera House ‘Start’ - Stage 2 - an historic site
The
Forecourt of the iconic Sydney Opera House, with the Harbour Bridge backdrop,
will see the Official ‘Start’ of the Sydney to Melbourne stage of SunRace
’04. This most famous of Australian landmarks is symbolically significant as
the destination of the world’s first Solarcar journey from Perth to Sydney by
Hans Tholstrup and Larry Perkins in 1982.
The
SunRace ’04 teams will return to Melbourne via the National Science Centre,
Questacon, in the Host City of Canberra, again leaving the Hume Highway for the
Host City of Wagga and then back onto the Hume to overnight at Wangaratta before
the final day to Melbourne. In these four days they will make ‘Media Stops’
in Mittagong, Yass, Gundagai, Holbrook, Wodonga and Euroa.
SunRace
’04 will enter Melbourne with a police motor cycle escort along CityLink and
on into the CBD. A Cavalcade of SunRace teams will move down Swanston Walk for a
VIP welcome at the “Finish’ on Melbourne’s Federation Square – a
spectacular conclusion to a very public and very challenging2000 km sustainable
energy and transport technology odyssey.
The
superb BMW Edge at Federation Square will be the venue for the Gala Awards
Presentation Reception. Teams, sponsors, VIP’s and media will be guests at
these SunRace Awards for event achievement and the recently implemented SunRace
Enterprise Awards.
NEW
! SunRace Industry Enterprise Awards
Importantly the SunRace Enterprise Awards for 2004 will be expanded to recognise individuals, institutions and corporations who have made significant contributions to a sustainable future.
SunRace
'04 - Open to all WSC, ASC, ISF 5000 / 4000 Solarcars, SEED Class Ultra Lite
EV’s, Production Electric Hybrids and Hydrogen Technologies
SunRace
’04 ‘New Team’ Seeding Program
SunRace
’04 will continue it’s highly successful ‘New Team’ Seeding program and
is developing a low cost entry level Solarcar /EV project to make this exciting
‘Brain Sport’ accessible to many more young Australians. Already 101 Collins
Street, major sponsors of the three time SunRace solarcar winner, Aurora 101,
have stepped in to support this innovative new SunRace program.
SunRace 2003 saw the Australian Defence Forces Academy enter SunRace and this year the Fleet Air Arm, HMAS Albatross, based at Nowra has joined the SunRace ’04 field. The former NTU, now Charles Darwin University, will be at the Melbourne ‘Starting’ line together with solarcar Team ‘SunBar’ from Brazil and Hutt Valley from New Zealand. Hybrid Electric vehicles will again be part of SunRace ’04 - in all the potential is there for nearly 20 teams, 300 plus team members and a total presence of 80 to 100 competing, support and official vehicles – and superb hospitality every day.
SunRace
- a powerful tool for change
SunRace
has been acknowledged by the Prime Minister and Premiers of Victoria, New South
Wales and South Australia for making an outstanding contribution to the
promotion of sustainable technology – their letters of support are testimony
to this recognition. Additionally SunRace has received the prestigious 2001
Banksia Environmental Award in the category: Communication – ‘Promoting
change through informed participation’.
SunRace –
free to the public
SunRace
remains free to the public. In it’s past 7 years SunRace teams have travelled
nearly 14,000 kms through Australia’s major capitals, outback towns and
regional cities, reached nearly 200 million people world wide each year and
engaged some thousands of young people in this wonderful ’Brain Sport’. All
of this has depended on government and corporate sponsorship funding – there
is no SunRace ticket revenue.
There
is no doubt that SunRace has been recognised by many as an excellent opportunity
to demonstrate a conviction to promote sustainable energy and transport
technology. As a vehicle to identify corporate or government support for the
implementation of these imperative technologies SunRace offers an exceptionally
high media profile both during the 10 days of SunRace and in communities across
Australia throughout the year.
SunRace
’04 – SunRace event directions.
We
would welcome the opportunity to discuss how SunRace can work with your team or
community.
Join
us in February on the Australian Solar Super Highway!
The
World’s Most Challenging Solar EV Circuit
DRAFT
SCHEDULE
17 - 26
FEBRUARY
2004
PRD 1 TUESDAY 17
Team Registration, Scrutineering
PRD 2 WEDNESDAY 18
Grid trials and Braking Tests
DAY 1 THURSDAY 19
START - MELBOURNE - 10.00 AM
Media Stops - Seymour - Benalla
FINISH - ALBURY / WODONGA - 2.00 / 3.00 pm
DAY 2 FRIDAY 20
START - ALBURY / WODONGA - 10.00 AM
Media Stops - Holbrook - Gundagai Tuckerbox
FINISH - GOULBURN - 2.00 / 3.00 pm - TBC
DAY 3 SATURDAY 21
START - GOULBURN - 10.00 AM - TBC
Media Stops - Marulan - Pheasants Nest
FINISH - SYDNEY - 2.00 / 3.00 pm
DAY 5 SUNDAY 22 START - SYDNEY -10.00 AM
Media Stops - Pheasants Nest - Mittagong
FINISH - CANBERRA - 2.30 / 3.00 pm
DAY 6 MONDAY 23
START - CANBERRA - 10.00 AM
Media Stops - Yass - Gundagai
FINISH - WAGGA - 2.30 / 3.00 pm
DAY 7 TUESDAY 24
START - WAGGA - 10.00 AM
Media
Stops - Holbrook - Wodonga
FINISH - WANGARATTA - 2.00 / 3.00 pm
DAY 8 WEDNESDAY 25
START - WANGARATTA - 10.00 AM
Media Stops - Euroa - Campbellfield
FINISH - MELBOURNE - 2.00 / 3.00 pm
DAY 9 THURSDAY 26 MELBOURNE - Gala Awards Presentation.
SunRace
is supported by NSW RTA, 101 Collins Street, AAP MediaNet, Invensys, Michelin
Australia