Don’t know what the TTXGP is? It’s the world first ‘Zero carbon race’ (Read electric) for motorcycles.
Basically it is a race series for electric bikes with the first race held at the Ilse of Man. Get this, there was a team from India that came 3rd in the Open class. INDIA! Surely we have more engineering talent in the good old RSA!?! What makes it worse is it was put together by a couple of university students.
I find it hard to believe that South African universities do not have some form of final year projects with a tangible end product (Do you know of any? If you do let me know, post a comment, something!). I know from trying my own projects that it takes a long time to achieve anything, if you even finish it, but surely someone somewhere has done something without getting the exposure they deserve. Remember the Joule? Thought not!
Any way back to the races http://www.ttxgp.com/ gives you the results and has a breakdown of the teams, with images from the race itself. Interesting to see that biggish budget teams like MotoCzysz (DNF) and Mission Motors (4th) for who I had high expectations did n
ot fare so well. Hopefully they keep at it and I think they are pssibly using the first few races as testing so we will see them improve as the season progresses, this was the first race outing for these machines.
Posted under Electric Vehicles, Motorcycle news, Motorsport news
This post was written by Shaun on June 19, 2009
