Tourist Trophy – TT 2013: MotoCzysz rings the (re) charge with electric motorcycles –

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TT 2013: MotoCzysz rings the (re) charge in electric motorcycles

Tourist Trophy - TT 2013: MotoCzysz rings the (re) charge with electric motorcycles -

While waiting for the Superbike final of the Tourist Trophy – for which Michael Dunlop starts as favorite after winning the first SBK round, the Superstock and the two SSP rounds – the spectators gathered around the Isle of Man road circuit were able to attend the fifth edition of the TT Zero, a race between electric sports motorcycles.

While waiting for the Superbike final of the Tourist Trophy – for which Michael Dunlop started as favorite after winning the -, spectators gathered around the Isle of Man road circuit were able to attend the fifth edition of the TT Zero, a race between motorcycles electric sports.

Like last year, it was the forty-something Michael Rutter who won on his MotoCzysz E1pc, a motorcycle that would exceed 200 hp and develop 220 Nm of torque built in Oregon (read in particular). And like last year, Rutter won ahead of the Shinden Ni developed by Mugen (a Japanese trainer closely linked with Honda) and driven by TT star John McGuiness.

What changes compared to 2012, however, is the pace at which these "e-superbikes" completed the 60 km of the famous road layout: Rutter turned at an average 109.675 mph (around 176.5 km / h), or 5 good miles faster than in 2012 (104.1 mph, or just over 167 km / h).

Second, John McGuinesse is no exception and significantly improves his performance by exceeding 109 mph per lap on his Mugen for the first time. The "Morecambe Missile" maintained a nice 109.527 average, against 102.215 mph in 2012. Behind, the gap widens markedly since the third, Robert Barber, did not exceed 90 miles (a small 145 km / h) of average on his RW-2 engaged by the University of Ohio.

TT Zero 2013: the results

In the end, what to conclude from this fifth edition of the TT Zero? First of all, as the electric racing motorcycles progress, at least the front ones: Rutter has averaged almost 10 km / h per lap on a circuit that has 350 turns, most of which are super-fast..

Even if these "battery-powered sports cars" are still far from the rates reached by the fastest thermal motorcycles – the best exceed 200 km / h on average! -, the gap narrows and becomes less ridiculous.

For the anecdote, some spectators had indeed found the spectacle so soporific during the first editions of the TT Zero that many packed their bags after a few minutes of "racing" !

There remains a major difference between “electric” and “thermal”: battery-powered motorcycles only cover one lap, against six (with two refueling) for gas-filled Superbikes. In "TiTi" as in our streets, the main obstacle to the development of electric motorization is not necessarily pure performance, but rather autonomy….

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