Mugen shattered lap speed records in the 2014 TT ZERO, with John McGuinness (117.366 miles/hr) and Bruce Anstey (115.048 miles/hr) taking 1st and 2nd place. They were the expected winners, and a 115+ miles/hr finish was to be expected after McGuinness’ 115.598 finish on Monday, but hitting a speed over…
Earlier today Mugen Shinden’s John McGuinness shattered the TT ZERO lap speed record – it now stands at 115.598 miles/hr. His teammate, Bruce Anstey, also broke the previous record, which had been set by Anstey on Saturday, with a 113+ miles/hr lap speed. These two are top riders in the…
The 115 miles/hr threshold has been broken in today’s 2014 TT ZERO qualifying round. Mugen Shinden’s John McGuinness finished with a 115.598 miles/hr (19:35.007) lap speed, followed closely by Bruce Anstey who also broke the previous record with a 113.643 miles/hr (19:55.221) lap speed. The wet weather for which the…
John McGuinness during Friday’s practiceSource: IOMTT Today it was Bruce Anstey’s turn to set an TT ZERO lap speed record. Yesterday, Mugen’s John McGuinness finished with a 111.904 miles/hr lap speed, and in today’s qualifying round Mugen’s Bruce Anstey finished with a 112.355 miles/hr lap speed. McGuinness finished with a…
Today the 2014 TT ZERO is having its first practice session on the Isle of Man. At the bottom of this is a bunch of postings I’ve located on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The big news is that John McGuinness, riding for Team Mugen Shinden, broke the 110 miles/hr threshold,…
The Buckeye Current team is working hard on the Isle of Man before the 2014 TT ZERO. I stumbled across a discussion thread on a forum where the team is posting field updates. They’re using the same 2006 CBR1000RR frame as before but have completely redone the battery pack, adding…
Just a few minutes ago I posted an entry list for the 2014 TT ZERO that lacked an entry from home-town team ManTTX. That team is based on the Isle of Man, and has raced in every previous running, even including the 2009 TTXGP. It’d be odd to hold a…
The Buckeye Current team just posted the TT ZERO entry list – this list doesn’t seem to be posted on iomtt.com, but since Buckeye Current is a competitor they obviously have access to things not published on that site. Hopefully it’s okay they posted this on Twitter 😉 Who are…
Sarolea isn’t the only historical motorcycle brand being revived for the electric age, Spain’s Bultaco Motors is relaunching as an electric motorcycle company. The brand has a strong history dating back to 1958, and had many racing wins to its credit. However, the company had shut down until the Bulto…
The TT ZERO is due to begin on the weekend of May 24 on the Isle of Man. There’s going to be a bunch of noisy stinky gasoline powered bikes roaming the Island, and filling the schedule with events important to those who haven’t yet realized electric racing is the…
Teams are starting to arrive at the Isle of Man getting ready for TT Week. The festivities start this weekend, on the 24th. Here’s a few pictures of/from the Mugen Shinden team I’m capturing off Twitter. We’re here at Castle Combe with @MUGENSHINDENTT who are testing with @JM130TT and Bruce…
An electric race car team in Australia just became the first team to race an electric car against gas powered race cars on equal terms. The team, ELMOFO (electro motive force), builds high end electric cars, and has built a race car based on a Radical SR8 chassis. With that…
Doors open on new Donington Park headquarters and team facilities LEICESTERSHIRE, UK (May 15 2014): The 10 teams competing in the new FIA Formula E Championship received their first batch of Spark-Renault SRT_01E race cars today, at the same time as the doors to their new state-of-the-art facilities were officially…
Colorado Springs, May 9————One of the top competitions at the 2014 The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb will be the quietest of them all. The talent-heavy Electric Modified Division already includes Nobuhiro Tajima, who won the Electric Division last year when he drove his Tajima Monster Sports Special E-Runner to a…
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is coming up again, so it’s time to take a peek at the entry list to see who’s shooting for the peak. Okay, that was a bad pun, but who’s planning to go, that’s what’s important. At the moment the electric division looks smaller…
