I Called It! The Winner of the American Solar Challenge

July 31, 2008

So I was sitting minding my own business, typing emails and what not, when I saw Jeff Ferman's Gchat icon pop up as green, meaning he was online. If you remember, I did an IM interview with Jeff back in mid-July to talk about how his solar car team from the University of Michigan was gearing up for another win in the American Solar Challenge. (I also ran a slide show of all of the 15 solar car teams.) So I ping him via Gchat. Here's how it went:

4:30 PM me: did you guys win?

4:31 PM Jeff: yup we did

4:32 PM me: that's awesome. congrats! Is there news of it anywhere? I didn't see anything

 Jeff: there should be some - i have seen quite a bit

4:33 PM me: probably just wasn't looking in the right places

 Jeff: ah ya, there was a bit less than I would have thought

 we started to link to it from our blog on a thread from a media post

4:34 PM me: What was your time?

 Jeff: 51:41:53

 about 10 hrs ahead of second place

4:36 PM me: wowsers. congrats again!

4:38 PM Jeff: thank you very much

So there you have it. Turns out I interviewed the winner all along. Go figure!