SOLAR AUSTRALIA

Solar cars raced across Australian desert as the Dutch team Nuon Solar emerged the winner for the third time in a row at the World Solar Challenge on Thursday.

A grueling 3,000 KM  [1,864 mikes] race started at Darwin, crossing Australia's tropical north to the Southern shores and ending to Adelaide.

The Dutch team also the winner of the 2013, 2015 challenge, got an early lead and won this comfortably.

The "Nuna 9" car traveled at an average speed of 81.2 kmph still beating the nearest rival by about two hours.

"You've got to build a really good car ... you have to have a really good strategy, and we had a satellite car that helped us down the way and we were checking the weather all the way," Nuon Solar Team member Sarah Bennink Bolt said.

"You have to have a bit of luck ... it's an amazing feeling."