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MotoE starts at the Sachsenring

MotoE pavilion with racing motorcycles burned down
MotoE starts at the Sachsenring

New racing plan after a fire disaster: Electric motorcycle Grand Prix starts in Germany.


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Michael Schumann,

Eva Breutel,

Ralf Schneider,

Andreas Schulz

March 27, 2019

After the devastating fire that destroyed all 20 motorcycles of the MotoE World Cup planned for the first time in 2019 during training in Jerez (see message below), the International Motorcycle Sports Federation FIM has now published a new schedule.

Accordingly, the world premiere of MotoE will take place in Jerez, Spain, instead of in May, as part of the Grand Prix at the Sachsenring on July 7, 2019 in Germany. The other race dates and routes of the MotoE Cup are also fixed: August 11th at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria, September 14th and 15th at the World Circuit Marco Simoncelli in Misano, Italy, and at the Grand Prix final on November 16 and 17 in Valencia, Spain. Two of the six MotoE races now planned for 2019 instead of the original five will be held in Misano and Valencia.


MotoE starts at the Sachsenring


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The MotoE will start on July 7th at the Sachsenring.

Before the world premiere in Germany, according to FIM, the 18 international MotoE riders, including well-known pilots such as Sete Gibernau and Randy de Puniet, will have a training session on what has been provided by the manufacturer Energica give rebuilt, electrically powered motorcycles of the Ego Corsa type.

According to FIM, investigations into what exactly started the fire in Jerez are still ongoing. In the first statements it had been said that an apparently defective mobile charger, to which none of the 20 motorcycles was connected, had triggered the fire inferno.

News from March 15th:

The MotoE World Cup should start on May 5, 2019 in Jerez, Spain, as part of the first European MotoGP race. Four more runs were to follow. Now, almost six weeks before the start of the season of the first World Cup for electric motorcycles, a fire is causing a fiasco.

All 18 machines burned

In Jerez, Spain, the entire MotoE entourage had recently come together for its second test. All 18 racing motorcycles as well as a lot of equipment (tools, laptops, driver equipment …) were stored together in a pavilion specially built for the MotoE.

It burned down on Thursday night (March 14, 2019) and everything that was stored in it with it. The fire broke out around 12:15 a.m..

The Italian electric motorcycle manufacturer Energica, which equips the World Cup with its machines, was devastated. The exact details are not yet known and the cause of the fire is not yet known. All 18 machines were custom-made for the MotoE World Cup.


MotoE starts at the Sachsenring


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Spanish media spoke in first reports in the morning of an “initial explosion” of a machine during the nightly charging process, which triggered the fire. Dorna clearly contradicted this in a first press release. None of the machines was connected to a charger that night. However, Dorna also admitted that new technologies also bring risks. The fire only caused property damage; no one was injured. The police are currently investigating the cause of the fire.

Nicolas Goubert, head of MotoE, said in one Video messaget, a charger malfunctioned at the end of the charging cycle and a fire broke out. That could not be deleted and spread to the whole pavilion.

MotoGP organizer Dorna announced in a statement that all partners had agreed to rebuild the machines and that they would definitely start in 2019. The racing calendar is being revised. The opening race in Jerez on May 5th will be canceled.

The MotoE should actually have served as a figurehead for electrically powered motorcycles, how great the damage to the image will be due to today’s incident is not yet foreseeable.

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