The race route notes read like features on a road map from The Hobbit – cross the Tropic of Capricorn, avoid wandering stock, pass the world’s longest fence, and Beware of Aliens.

Competitors in the biennial Bridgestone World Solar Challenge race across one of the least hospitable places on Earth.

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