Bob
11th December 2010, 01:26
SWIGZ.COM Pro Rracing has announced that their electric racebike will make history by competing directly against conventional petrol-powered bikes in January 2011, in a professionally organised road race.
SWIGZ owner and rider Chip Yates said "We have to thank WERA Motorcycle Roadracing for inviting us into their series to make history with this news. Our electric motorcycle will compete head on with real racing superbikes such as the Ducati 1198 and KTM RC8 as well as other established manufacturers, and we expect to work hard to show the world that electric technology can achieve laptime parity with gasoline superbikes. We're not going on track to make up the numbers; we're going out to compete in order to raise our game and catch up to these gasoline guys."
The SWIGZ bike – recently excluded from the FIM and TTXGP series for being ‘too heavy’ at 266kg (FIM/TTXGP rules state a maximum 250kg) – is also aiming to be, by February, the most powerful road racing motorcycle of any kind. Yates added "Our scheduled power increase (20% on top of the bike’s existing 194bhp) will make our electric superbike more powerful than a MotoGP bike and will bring us extremely close to power to weight parity with the best 1,000cc Japanese superbikes. Those two facts are a simply outstanding reflection of the potential in electric power."
SWIGZ owner and rider Chip Yates said "We have to thank WERA Motorcycle Roadracing for inviting us into their series to make history with this news. Our electric motorcycle will compete head on with real racing superbikes such as the Ducati 1198 and KTM RC8 as well as other established manufacturers, and we expect to work hard to show the world that electric technology can achieve laptime parity with gasoline superbikes. We're not going on track to make up the numbers; we're going out to compete in order to raise our game and catch up to these gasoline guys."
The SWIGZ bike – recently excluded from the FIM and TTXGP series for being ‘too heavy’ at 266kg (FIM/TTXGP rules state a maximum 250kg) – is also aiming to be, by February, the most powerful road racing motorcycle of any kind. Yates added "Our scheduled power increase (20% on top of the bike’s existing 194bhp) will make our electric superbike more powerful than a MotoGP bike and will bring us extremely close to power to weight parity with the best 1,000cc Japanese superbikes. Those two facts are a simply outstanding reflection of the potential in electric power."