iLumen European Solar Challenge
Dúshlán Gréine Eorpach
Circuit Zolder, Belgium · 19–20 September 2026
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The iLumen European Solar Challenge is the world’s only 24-hour race for solar cars. Teams from across Europe and beyond race around Circuit Zolder in Belgium for 24 hours, from Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon.
It tests outright efficiency, pit-stop discipline and how a car holds up through changing weather and running at night. We finished the full 24 hours, 7th in class.
Circuit Zolder
A 4 km Formula 1 circuit in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium: fast straights, tight chicanes and a climb through the woods, lap after lap through the night.
- 24h
- 639km
- 159laps
- 7th
Our results
Our first iLumen European Solar Challenge, with Solas, in September 2026.
- 7th
- 15th
- 12th
- 5
- 8.2kWh
- €1.53
Lap by lap
Play back all 24 hours: every lap on the track map, the weather, the drivers and the energy used. Pick a photo to see that moment.
Who has won it
| Year | Team | Car | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Solar Team Twente | RED E | Netherlands |
| 2024 | Innoptus Solar Team | BluePoint Atlas | Belgium |
| 2022 | Sonnenwagen Aachen | Covestro Photon | Germany |
| 2021 | Agoria Solar Team | BluePoint | Belgium |
| 2020 | Agoria Solar Team | BluePoint | Belgium |
| 2018 | Solar Team Twente | RED Shift | Netherlands |
| 2016 | Solar Team Twente | RED One | Netherlands |
| 2014 | Hochschule Bochum | PowerCore SunCruiser | Germany |
| 2010 | Hochschule Bochum | BOcruiser | Germany |
From the weekend
image credit to @studiosocial.be 
A long exposure shot of the hill and chicane at the back of Circuit Zolder. 
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