Infinium arrived with the semi trailer on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after when race officials publicized time slots for scrutineering. We were scheduled for Thursday (Today) at 2:30 PM, giving us all of Wednesday to make final preparations for the inspection. On Wednesday morning, we swapped out many of our mechanical parts for our race set of parts--each part we design has a given fatigue life, so after over 3,500 miles of testing, many were in need of changing. After swapping out these components, we gave the car a shakedown by running some laps around the Hidden Valley Raceway track. We were impressed by Infinium's speed around the track, and feel that it should qualify much better than Continuum did.

On Wednesday evening, we enjoyed dinner with the group of parents and team supporters led by Chuck Hutchins (Chuck is following the team on his sixteenth race, and we are the ninth team that he has traveled with!). It is great to have such an enthusiastic group of supporters here, and a pleasure to have so many team parents around. After dinner, half of the team returned to the race track to prepare for scrutineering, including the installation of our concentrator system. Up until this point, we had been running without concentrators in Darwin, so no team had seen our new development in person. Many who had heard about the system had yet to see it, so the time for the unveiling of the system was near.

Today's scrutineering was set up in a number of different stations, including stops to inspect items such as logos and numbering, array size, vehicle weight, mechanical, electrical, batteries, and support vehicles. After having each team member sign in, we lined up behind the cars that were already scrutineering so that we could proceed through the stations one by one. We had no major problems during scrutineering, and have only two minor changes to make before our vehicle is cleared for qualifying: first of all, we must make a slight modification to our parking brake mechanism, and secondly, we must re-locate a switch that isolates the battery pack from the rest of the vehicle. We feel confident that we can make both changes tomorrow, so that all of our systems will comply with race regulations and will be ready to qualify on Saturday.

Go Blue!