[Gentle, uplifting music]
>> KARLS: There's unbreakable bonds, unwritten promises.
And every all-nighter we pulled and every hour of sanding,
there's a mutual understanding that everybody sees that goal that's in the
distance.
And everybody realizes that we can't get there alone. You need every other person
and not getting there is not an option.
[Upbeat music]
>> YASSINE: I was afraid I wasn't gonna be able to find my spot and my place here but I
found it with the solar car team. Just a bunch of nerds designing cool, cool fast
cars. [laughs]
[Car driving by]
I'm so blessed to be on a team that has pushed me to be a better engineer than I
ever thought I was gonna be.
You know I can go to electrum right now and point
out the exact things that I designed from the ground up whether it started as a
sketch on a computer, was sent out to a machine shop, all the way down to me
bonding it in place on the car.
>> KARLS: Every little thing there was hand-built, hand-designed
and for an intimate object I would say it's very very intimate.
>> DICKINSON: Go blue on three! One, two, three! >> ALL: Go blue!
[Introspective music]
>> REPORTER: On the outskirts of Port Augusta, a solar car goes up in flames.
>> DICKINSON: Follow flagger for a wide right turn.
>> YASSINE: The leaders of the race thought votenfal
who've been racing the World Solar Challenge for over 20 years now actually
crashed and had a battery fire so they're out of the race.
You know it's
you just, It's terrible I like I don't I don't even know like my heart hurts.
>> KARLS: Everything is it's it's always an uncertainty. Every mile is something you
worked for but every mile is also a blessing in a way because that means you
succeeded. It's not natural to get engineering right on the first try,
It's just so just crossing that line. That became what it was all about.
[Positive music]
I think the biggest thing I learned is like you can learn stuff on paper but
sometimes when you apply it in the real world all the conceptual stuff goes out
the window and you just do what makes sense,
It's hard - you want the best but
you know that there's things you can't control
and I think a certain part of that's an engineering maturity thing and just
understanding how the world works and not everything can be modeled by a
computer.
>> YASSINE: Rolling up to my teammates seeing them there. They're what made that entire
journey possible. You guys really taught me more about myself and more about what
my capabilities were. I couldn't imagine a more perfect way to end this race and
to end the journey.
>> ALL: Go blue! [Cheers]