After an intense and productive summer of hard work on the car, the team ran into some last-minute difficulties with completing the steering mechanism and was unfortunately unable to race in this summer’s North American Solar Challenge. After sending a few representatives to observe and learn from the race, CalSol is back on its feet and hard at work on the car. The car is mostly complete and we will be using this extra time to fix the problems that prevented us from attending the race as well as improving on the original design to bring this car to perfection. CalSol plans to attend the next NASC in 2010, and is looking into 2009’s World Solar Challenge in Australia.