With only 7 weeks before the competition, there seem to be some fine cars in the making. University of Perth seem to be on track with a sub 200kg car (under 440lb), and adelaide's car is doing the publicity rounds. Looks like this year's competition will be very close, with a lot of fast cars in production.

In the interests of getting more Australian content on this site, have many teams gone outside the traditional Mech Eng students when recruiting and branched into other fields? How sucessful has this been so far?