Like Carnegie Mellon, Virginia Tech is a veteran of the DARPA Challenge events, having competed in the previous two. Victor Tango, as its team is called, is entering this year's event with ODIN, a converted Ford Escape hybrid. In its run on the challenging Test Area A, which required cars to make a series of left-hand turns through oncoming traffic, ODIN managed to complete 11 laps, the second-highest number behind CMU's Boss.