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…
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…
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…
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…
I wasn’t able to go to the eMotoRacing event, even though it was so close to my home. Fortunately Abe Kowitz posted these GoPro videos of the race on Thursday, May 1, and Friday May 2. It shows quite a few riders were on the grid. Thursday, May 1 Friday,…
Formula E released this press information today: MONTEBLANCO, SPAIN (April 30 2014): Ho-Pin Tung – the first Chinese driver to ever test a Formula 1 car – reckons that the all-new FIA Formula E Championship will feature ‘super-close’ racing, after testing the fully-electric Spark-Renault STR_01E race car for the first…
Here’s the press release from the PPIHC team on Monster Tajima’s involvement in the 2014 event Colorado Springs, April 9——After winning the high-profile Unlimited Division nine times, including six straight from 2006-2011 in a variety of high-powered Suzuki sport autos, it remains a great story that he has switched to…
Last weekend the eMotoRacing series event at Willow Springs race track had either four or five entries – the results writeup is a little confusing, because at one point they mention three Brammo’s and a Zero, and at another point they list four Brammo’s. The listed entrants are: Legendary TT…
