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Anyone else excited about MotoE?

I'm also interested.
 
No. I raced one E race several years ago in conjunction with AMA. Not enough battery to make it interesting.
 
Very much so. :ride

http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2018/...world-cup-rider-and-regulation-updates/278351

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Oh damn! My man DePuniet! Can't wait to see him toss that bike into the gravel trap.

I'm stoked to see the MotoE races. They will be fun and only a few laps. Good show.
 
I am interested. :thumbup

Interesting cast of characters on interesting two wheel technology.
 
Three things:

Battery limitations will limit the distance. Ten lap races are sprints. So they will be "interesting", no tire strategy.

They make almost no sound. It's weird riding one. As a spectator you basically hear whishing sounds which are the sound of the tire flexing on the asphalt, it sounds like a giant bicycle race, same sound.

In order to make one fast enough to be interesting, they had to compromise. The current tech doesn't allow a big enough battery to last 45 minutes in a full race. There's not much on the future horizon that says this is going to change, other than insanely expensive regenerative LeMans/F1 tech. And that may happen in a future hybrid, which is what they should have done.
 
Very excited to see. This is how we can get accelerated development just as ice bikes do from track experience.
 
No. Unless it's a figure 8.
 
Damn. A huge fire after the first day of the Jerez MotoE test at may have destroyed all the race bikes and much of the teams' equipment. Complete story and some photos at the link below.

MotorcycleNews.com - MotoE: Championship in doubt after catastrophic fire?

The inaugural MotoE championship, set to kick off at Jerez at the start of May, could well be in doubt after a catastrophic fire last night at the Jerez Circuit in Spain. There for their second full test of the new electric bikes, the fire broke out in the shared temporary garage unit used by all the teams, with initial reports suggesting that it may well have resulted in the loss of all 18 Energica Ego bikes.
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Whoa.
Very interested.
 
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