I have some preliminary news on a new electric motorcycle racing season in Europe – MotoERacing. I learned of this series last week thanks to a posting by the Danish team, Future Electric, who made a blog post seeking sponsorship. Their reason for seeking sponsors? Because they’ve been invited to…
A new electric motorcycle team, Future Electric, has launched via IndieGoGo (link below) and claims to have designed the worlds fastest electric motorcycle. One of these days we’ll get all the groups who make that claim into one race and settle it once and for all. Maybe. Anyway, the team…
Brammo announced today that Darvill Racing would be contesting the 2014 FIM eRoadRacing World Cup as a factory supported team. This is both great for Brammo, and the first sign that there will be a 2014 eRoadRacing series. Darville will be running with two “Factory-supported privateer Brammo machines”. One is…
What happened to the 2013 eRoadRacing World Cup? The team, a fusion of the FIM e-Power and TTXGP, started the year with big promises that 2013 would be a formative year in which they launched the series. Four or more races were to be held in both North America and…
While looking for something else I stumbled across an interesting opinion article on motorcycle-usa.com about how the AMA was failing at promoting motorcycle racing in the US, despite being controlled by NASCAR. The thrust of the article was that given the success of NASCAR, those people ought to be able…
Eric Bostrom at Laguna Seca It appears the eRoadRacing World Cup crew quietly closed out the 2013 season without holding a World Final race. A press release has popped up on motorcycle-usa.com and roadracingworld.com saying that Ho Chi Fung (Zongshen) and Eric Bostrom (Brammo) are the winners of the 2013…
The 2014 Zero SR Zero’s first race-ready electric motorcycleIn the Laguna Seca corkscrew Zero Motorcycles has ditched their dirt bike roots, and added a race ready version of the Zero S. While this is exciting for electric motorcycle racing fans, it means electric dirt bike fans might be disappointed. Or…
MotoCzysz For the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 racing seasons the Laguna Seca Raceway has hosted one of the most important historical sequence of racing events. I’m talking about the FIM e-Power, TTXGP and now eRoadRacing electric motorcycle races. Historical? The whole project of establishing electric motorcycle racing as a…
Kenyon Kluge at Laguna Seca Yesterday I referenced & summarized a race report from Brian Wismann – today it’s Kenyon Kluge’s turn. Kenyon took 3rd place behind the Empulse RR’s in Sunday’s eRoadRacing race event in Indianapolis. This makes him top dawg in the unofficial eSuperSport division for two races…
From Facebook Just before Sunday’s eRoadRacing race in Indianapolis, Brian Wismann posted a long “here’s the latest from Team Brammo” on Facebook that gave some interesting details. First and most heartening is that the Brammo paddock had a constant stream of visitors “since Friday” which is typically a slow day. …
It’s way cool that the 2013 electric motorcycle racing season (eRoadRacing World Cup) is featuring manufactured bikes, where in previous years the majority of bikes were prototype bikes. There are two manufactured bikes, Brammo’s Empulse TTX and Zero S, in existence with race-ready performance. Well, “race ready” so long as…
Shane Turpin – from Facebook Shane Turpin (Brammo Empulse RR) won overall in today’s eRoadRacing World Cup race at Indianapolis Speedway, with Kenyon Kluge (Zero S) winning the eSuperStock category. This was the first electric vehicle race held at the Indianapolis Speedway, a track that has the nickname “Gasoline Alley”,…
Can you spell Oschersleben? If so, you’re a better man than me. In any case, Ho Chi Fung has taken pole position at the eRoadRacing Europe race #2 at that track. It’s a double header for the eRoadRacing this weekend with events in both Indianapolis (where Shane Turpin has taken…
The eRoadRacing guys are racing in Indianapolis for what may be the final race of the 2013 North America season, and I’m not there, missing a North America TTXGP/e-Power/eRoadRacing for the first time. Whether there’s something wrong with this picture remains to be seen, but in the meantime I’m combing…
The eRoadRacing folks have posted a notice that the 3rd event in the 2013 North America series, at Miller Motorsports, has been canceled. This means the North America series will be truncated to just two races. UNLESS .. there is a slight chance of a race at Laguna Seca during…
