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ASC 2001
Chicago, IL to Claremont, CA
July, 2001

Led by sunny skies, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's Solar Phantom VI solar-powered car swept across the finish line in Los Angeles on Wednesday to complete the 2,300-mile American Solar Challenge. The team placed eighth out of 30 teams in the 11-day adventure that traveled along historic Route 66 after starting July 15 in Chicago.  The race was filled with heat index temperatures reaching 120 degrees, heavy traffic on interstate highways and steep mountains in Arizona.  Don Harrington, a California native, had the honor of driving the Solar Phantom VI across the finish line in his hometown of Claremont, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles.  "To finish in the top 10 of a national engineering competition, beating MIT, Stanford's two cars and Texas A&M, is gratifying. We had just one mechanical breakdown in 11 days of racing, and that only cost us 15 minutes on the road," Brad Berron said. "We also helped spread news about Rose-Hulman, through media interviews, meeting people in towns along the race route and distributing team postcards. There's plenty to be proud of from our perspective. A lot of teams would have easily traded places with us."  Rose-Hulman's team included 22 students from several different academic departments. Drivers included Chris Nicholson, Dan Helms, Pete Mobley, and Harrington, a mechanical engineering and electrical engineering double major. The chief engineers were Bobbie Burke, a mechanical engineering major from Bloomington, Ind., and Quentin Kramer, an electrical engineering major also from Bloomington.

ASC 2001 Results

Position	Team	Car #	Class	Total Elapsed Time
1	University of Michigan	2	O	56:10:46
2	University of Missouri - Rolla	42	O	57:30:52
3	University of Waterloo	24	O	62:00:18
4	Queen's University	100	O	62:55:11
5	Kansas State University	28	O	65:22:55
6	University of Minnesota	35	O	66:59:20
7	Principia College	32	O	67:25:43
8	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	74	O	69:17:30
9	University of Arizona	8	S	69:56:32
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	6	O	71:41:55
11	University of Missouri - Columbia	43	O	72:28:49
12	University of Toronto	1	O	79:08:57
13	Messiah College	77	O	80:22:37
14	South Bank University	41	O	80:44:47
15	Stanford University	16	S	90:58:16
16	Iowa State University	9	O	92:39:00
17	Association FUTURA	63	O	95:49:13
18	Stanford University	91	O	99:53:07
19	Minnesota State University	3	S	103:55:00
20	École de technologie supérieure	101	O	106:00:57
21	North Dakota State University	22	S	115:09:17
22	Los Altos High School / La Puente Valley ROP	11	O	121:41:50
23	Western Michigan University	295	S	125:08:49
24	University of North Dakota	00	S	127:17:35
25	University of Virginia	87	O	128:03:07
26	Northwestern University	150	S	130:04:09
27	Texas A&M University	12	O	130:31:11
28	University of Alberta	99	S	138:50:32
29	McMaster University	13	S	Withdrawn
30	University of Pennsylvania	17	O	Disqualified