Crowds attended Axelent unveiling
The event was well-organised and well-attended. JU Solar Team’s Marketing Manager LisaBeth Sundström was pleased with the evening.
“The unveiling of our new solar car Axelent went very smoothly and it felt amazing to present what we’ve been working so hard to achieve over the past twelve months. The actual planning of the event began back in April and now it’s wonderful to see everything fall into place four months later. As well as getting to know the drivers, the visitors also heard about the improvements we’ve made since the previous car,” says LisaBeth Sundström.
Australia in sight
Kelvin Frank is one of the drivers and is looking forward to steering Axelent across Australia.
“It is a huge honour to have been selected to represent our team. The task carries a lot of responsibility, and the other drivers and I intend to do our very best to impress everyone with our solar car, into which we’ve put so many hours of work. Based on what I’ve heard about the other teams and their accomplishments in previous years, I think it’s going to be a really tough competition. It means we need to raise the bar this year, and I feel we’ve already done that with our solar car Axelent. I can hardly wait for the competition to start. We’ll soon be measuring ourselves against the other teams for the first time to find out who is best. We couldn’t be more ready than we are for this challenge,” says Kelvin Frank.
In his speech, Rishab Karan Mehta, the team manager of the JU Solar Team, proudly related that the team had managed to overcome all the difficulties that they had encountered while working on the solar car.
“It felt fantastic to finally have the car on the podium for all the world to see. It is hard to describe the feeling, but right there and then it was really worth all the effort. The other teams in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge will need to watch out,” says an upbeat Rishab Karan Mehta.
