Lightning
Motorcycles has beaten the best gas motorcycles during the first 5 days of
practice at Pike's Peak. Carlin Dunne on Lightning's electric superbike is
16.044 seconds faster than the second fastest team with French
champion Bruno Langlois on a replica of Carlin Dunne's 2012 record setting
Ducati Multistrade race bike. This is the first time in history that an
electric bike has beaten top gas bike competitors on the same playing field. Lightning's Richard Hatfield says:
“This technology will drive the future of racing. We always knew what we
had in the performance of our electric bikes but it takes time for the world to
comprehend and accept a huge change like this. It took 50 years for
people to accept a car was better transportation than a horse. Now here
is the top rider in the world at this race, at the top of his game, putting his
seal of approval on us by leaving combustion and going electric.”
