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Team Agni with Rider Rob Barber Wins Inuagural TTXGP

By Paul Crowe

Rob Barber - Team Agni winning rider TTXGPTeam Agni and rider Rob Barber won the inaugural TTXGP. Second place was Thomas Schoenfelder, on the Team XXL entry, Mark Buckley on the Team Brammo entry took third.

MotoCzysz was a DNF.

TTXGP 2009

PRO        
Pos Team  Rider Time  Speed
1 AGNI X01  Rob Barber 25:53:50  87.434
2 XXL Racing Team Thomas Schoenfelder 29:04:93 77.841
3 Brammo  Mark Buckley 30:02:64 75.350
4 Mission Motors Thomas Montano 30:33:26 74.091
5 Htblauva  Paul Dobbs 36.10.63 62.575
6 Brunel X-team Stephen Harper 56:27:89 40.092
OPEN        
1 Electric Motorsport Chris Heath 34:17:30 66.022
2 Barefoot Motors Chris Petty 36:23:06 62.219
3 TORK  John Crellin 37:26:01  60.475

 

Link: TTXGP

Posted on June 12, 2009 Filed Under: Electric motorcycles, Motorcycle Racing

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Comments

  1. Scott says

    June 12, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    Thanks! Keep us updated if you can find any more info. I’ve been trying to look up practice times and I haven’t found any for MotoCzysz. Did they even finish a lap?

    Seems like the top teams had some respecitble times and were reasonably competitive.

  2. Bob Wreford says

    June 12, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    The TT rules used to be quoted simply as ‘the motorcycle shall comprise two wheels and a suitable engine’. Over the years many more rules were added but the TTXGP seems to have added a fresh and more basic rulebook approach to bike racing which has captured the interest of existing and new enthusiasts alike – I think it rather suggests that fewer rules make for more interesting racebikes!

  3. chaz says

    June 12, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    Did Mission finish? I think most people expected a high rate of DNF’s and a large disparity in lap times, and that seems to be true.

  4. Keith says

    June 12, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Aw man, spoiler alert? I was looking forward to watching the races later…

  5. kneeslider says

    June 12, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    Keith, I try not to spoil races, in fact I don’t report very many, but this is not exactly a series but a technological shift, a singular event. As things develop and if/when electric motorcycles become more the norm, I’ll follow the usual spoiler rules.

  6. P. T. Anderson says

    June 12, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Any word yet on where we might be able to catch some video coverage of this?

  7. Richard Gozinya says

    June 12, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    Top 7 finishers:

    1, Rob Barber (AGNI) 25m 53.50s, average speed 87.434mph
    2, Thomas Schoenfelder (XXL Racing Team) 29m 04.93s, 77.841mph
    3, Mark Buckley (Brammo) 30m 02.64s, 75.350mph
    4, Thomas Montano (Mission Motors) 30m 33.26s 74.091mph
    5, Chris Petty (Barefoot Motors) 36m 23.06s, 62.219mph
    6, John Crellin (TORK) 37m 26.01s, 60.475mph
    7, Stephen Harper (Brunel) 56m 27.89s 40.092mph

  8. Richard Gozinya says

    June 12, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    Oh, and the racer who finished third in the open class, John Crellin, died in a later race.

  9. laurent says

    June 12, 2009 at 3:48 pm

    Congrats to Agni,
    It’s cool to see long time EV advocates and pretty visionary engineers like Cedric Lynch in the spotlight.
    Best

  10. kneeslider says

    June 12, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    P.T. Anderson,
    “where we might be able to catch some video”

    Videos are just going up at the TTXGP site.

  11. QrazyQat says

    June 12, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Brammo did pretty well there.

  12. Shaswata Panja says

    June 12, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    Yes India did it at last!!! We won…Time for the world to sit up and take notice!!

  13. FREEMAN says

    June 12, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    Congrats to all the teams. I look forward to seeing these bikes on the streets sometime in our future.

  14. pabs says

    June 13, 2009 at 3:54 am

    http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/498/3734/Motorcycle-Article/2009-Isle-of-Man-TT-TTXGP-Results.aspx

  15. Lewellyn says

    June 13, 2009 at 6:46 am

    Congratulation to Rob Barber ans espacially to Thomas Schönfelder, who I met in Spring at the Dortmund Motorcycle Fair. The engine is from the first german Hybrid-Car, the Audi Duo of 1998. Only 150 were build.

    I made a small video there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2zhBNppyPQ

  16. Lewellyn says

    June 13, 2009 at 6:51 am

    I forgott: the Topspeed of the XXL is 230km/h which is 143mph.

  17. Michael says

    June 13, 2009 at 11:07 am

    I am also very confused as to why Mission One would claim their speed as 150mph whenever they could get nowhere near that. They knew the truth would come out on the track. Makes me wonder if their recharge time was also why off base.
    I do think that this is a good showcase of the electronic era. The real test is whenever they beat the gasoline engines in a race.
    Congrats to AGNI X01 on a great win on the world stage.

  18. Tin Man 2 says

    June 14, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Shaswata Panja, India is highly respected in my mind, Your recent modernization and improvement of the Royal Enfield line up is superb. Your R+D on the Electric Bikes is also on the path to greatness. Congradulations.

  19. Leebone says

    June 15, 2009 at 12:00 am

    Although this technology is new, etc and kudos for a new form of racing, here is a little perspective. In 1935, Stanley Woods averaged 84.69 mph on a Moto Guzzi.

  20. Tom says

    June 15, 2009 at 8:40 am

    This race wasn’t about the past. It was about the future.

  21. hoyt says

    June 15, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    We should never forget the past, so this is about both.

    What will be interesting to watch is how much faster electrics can evolve than the petrol-powered engines evolved over the last 75 years (since the 1935 reference above)

  22. laurent says

    June 15, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    If you must bring the past, the first car breaking the 100 Km/Hour speed was electric.

    Cheers

  23. QrazyQat says

    June 16, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    What will be interesting to watch is how much faster electrics can evolve than the petrol-powered engines evolved over the last 75 years (since the 1935 reference above)

    Well, it took 32 years to go from Woods’ 85mph lap to Hailwood’s 108mph lap; I’ll bet anyone it won’t take even a decade to get there on an electric bike.

  24. laurent says

    June 16, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    QrazyQat
    The problem is energy storage, you can go as fast if not faster than a ICE with an electric motor, doing so for the 40 miles of the course is another story.

    There is a great deal of research being done in that area and I’m sure well see significant improvement pretty soon.

  25. Eva says

    June 17, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    Richard Gozinya’s results are wrong!!!

    Fifth fastest time and WINNER of the Open Class was Isle of Man local Chris Heath on the Electric Motorsport team from Oakland, California.

    Overall team standings
    1st Agni Motors (UK/India)
    2nd XXL (Geramany)
    3rd Brammo (Ashland, Oregon) (Pro Class 3rd place)
    4th Mission Motors (San Fransisco, California) (Pro Class 4th place)
    5th Electric Motorsport (Oakland, California) (Open Class 1st place)
    6th Bare foot (Ashland, Oregon) (Open Class 2nd place)

    Go Bay Area!!!
    Go West Coast…..

  26. QrazyQat says

    June 17, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    The problem is energy storage, you can go as fast if not faster than a ICE with an electric motor, doing so for the 40 miles of the course is another story.

    That’s the interesting difference between the two types of motors historically. While with ICE the essential problem was materials and heat limiting what you could do with an engine, what electrics have is as if the problem with ICE’s was merely the size of the fuel tank. That could theorectically be solved in electrics immediately, but with a weight penalty, while the problem old ICE designs had couldn’t be solved that easily. Of course what everyone wants with electrics is not much, or no, extra weight, and they’ve made great strides with that over the past couple decades, and I’d expect they’ll make even more strides over the next decade.

    I’d expect to see a “Hailwood” lap by electrics within the decade.

  27. pabs says

    June 17, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    well all a bit anti-climatic, currently it is in the hands of the scientists to give us electric gas tanks (aka batteries) that fill/discharge/store about 20 times what they do know until then its all just an excercise albeit a very interesting one

    i expect that is just around the corner from everything i read then watch out the world will go to electric based transport over a couple of short years, the hard part isn’t the parts worked already such as running gear etc but rather its the battery technology thats all this is about

    until then it all a bit fringe but i love to watch the development, and it just goes to show that when its time to put up some do and some don’t, pretty bikes with loud claims like motocyz running to silly top speeds on a dyno and off-bike batteries ! ! dont cut it in the real world, always better to underpromise and overdeliver

    big congrats to AGNI and Ron Barber who just got on with it, 2010 should be very cool with cars joining the fray. I can’r wait to see one of the majors get involved but that’ll be a few years off

  28. Mehul Kamdar says

    June 19, 2009 at 10:23 am

    This is the future as many have pointed out. Scientists are in a race to improve battery technology and when the world’s best minds get together to do something, they will achieve it, no doubt. And Team Agni deserve congratulations for winning handsomely. All other teams also deserve to be congratulated for involving themselves in this pioneering sport.

    The next TTXGP should be even more exciting. Good times are ahead!

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