It is only the second day of the race and your solar car has already have left "magic smoke" in three different states.

Your best sources of repair parts are the other 16 teams

Texas-shaped gravy waffles

You only get 300 miles out of a set of tires

Instead of camping, you get a hotel room that gives you the best of both worlds; air conditioning, and bugs and odors that would come from camping next to a hog farm.

You use a convertible as your media vehicle, and when you stop to take race photos you lock the car doors; with the top DOWN.

You leave your camera bag on the ground and an S&T solar car alum drives right overtop of it with a pickup truck. Look, I already apologized about that incident from the last race, so get over it, OK?

You stop in an Oklahoma farm store for parts, and the locals ask if the Texas Longhorns are in the race. You tell them "no, they failed to qualify", and they respond "Aaaaawwwwwwww, what a shame!"

Your GPS unit tells you where the auto parts stores are located, but not when they close, and lastly......

........you stop by the side of the road to take pictures of dead armadillos.