QID at the California Speedway (Score 1)

I'm not sure where all this is coming from. Having been at the racetrack in question for two days watching the teams attempt to complete the QID, I can emphatically say that teams did in fact complete the course in question. During the first half of Wednesday, CalTech (BOB), Ohio State (TerraMax), and another team from California (not the high schoolers), managed to complete the course. In reference to the high schoolers, the car in question did not hit the wall the first two times out of the gate but made a wrong turn to the right towards the control tower whereupon it went into pause mode and was driven back to the gate. The stands were considerably far away, and the principal in question was about midway up the stands. Typical of most media to overblow a situation. Rewriting the rules or not the achievement is something to be noted. DARPA has it's own goals in mind, the Grand Challenge is only a end to that means.