Sunrayce 95 squeeze bottle

This was a squeeze bottle given out during Sunrayce 95 by event sponsor EDS (?). Of course, GM had already bought part of Hughes holdings (which had led to the creation of the GM Sunraycer, which started the whole danged US solar car racing thing off) - - so maybe this bottle was from GM? At either rate there it is.

The text says "Sunrayce 95. Digital from Day One - Hughes Network System"

Now that I'm looking at this, it may have something to do with our chase vans that year. Sunrayce 95 was the last year that the race sponsors provided one chase van for each participating team. It was a Chevy Beauville. It was equipped, that year, with some radical technology - - an early version of GPS navigation. The radios could tell you how far away (and in what direction) you were from certain waypoints. Additionally, they were rigged to broadcast their location to a central point. The positions were then posted to a website so people could track where the chase vans were (and, by extension, where the solar cars were). Pretty cool, overall.