ARLINGTON, Texas, Oct. 26 -- The University of Texas at Arlington issued the following news release:
For six months, a group of students at The University of Texas at Arlington spent their weekends in a shop in Mineral Wells, cutting and welding metal to build a race car designed to run on sunlight. In July, they loaded the car onto a trailer, drove 18-and-a-half hours to Minnesota and raced it in their first national competition.
The Blaze Raycers, UTA's first solar car team, designed and built the race car in about 10 months and competed in the Formula Sun Grand Prix in Brainerd, Minnesota. Of the 56 teams that registered, 28 had built cars that qualified to make it onto the track. UTA was one of them.
Over three days of racing, the ca...