The Equinox made it and it is wowing them all the way.  The organizers are impressed the team is pulling together to make everything work like a well oiled machine.  We have been running like a champ taking home the Gold Star for being Reliable and Ready...Well mostly!  We might have had a glitch or two I mean if Toshiba decided to give us a laptop with a BIOS that just fries for no reason, based on their tech support, that is not really our fault right???  We might have had the electric drive cut out from an unexpected condition, but it certainly didn't fail and came back online quite easily with a simple restart.  Then running the events for the rest of the day we ran emissions and AVL drive quality with out a hitch then Dynamic Drive Quality went flawlessly minus the mud puddle that made it look like we had been off-roading.  

So that was leading up to about 2pm so what did we do then??  Well we watched the other teams fix an axle shaft (Uh Oh!!), another was trying to sort out some turbo problems, then others worked frantically on small repairs.  Meanwhile we decided to take the moment to shine our baby!  The Equinox went through one nice little wash and wax and then got a good rub down with various other cleaners to make everything sparkle and shine and bring out the beauty within the beast.  Last item of business was some new stickers to give our sponsors the respectful mention they deserve with some well done cut vinyl stickers.

So how did the day end?  Well we have one beautiful, running car!!!  The touch screen should be fixed in a matter of moments as I write.  The events tomorrow will bring another good day for Ohio State University ChallengeX with more events and some display of our work!!

Stay Tuned!!