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[Demoni]

Amazing performance by Josh Herrin, congrats to him and the LF team!

I'm not really a fan of Josh Herrin, but there's no denying his talent when all of his marbles are rolling together...

Yea his attitude rubs me the wrong way. But the guy can ride.


After watching his blog video from their test session @ Mid-Ohio last week I was worried the bike would not be ready for Barber.


Looks like his last lap time was within 2 seconds of his fastest lap time. Showing the bike was not down on power at the end of the race due to battery temp or capacity.
https://results.motoamerica.com/results/2026/BARBER/26_5_BARBER_MSH_R2_allrep.pdf

The technical regulations for the hooligan class specify that it's for production based motorcycles. However it also says MotoAmerica officials have the right to determine a motorcycles eligibility, suspect they granted an exception to the LF bikes.
An EV bike racing in the series is a great talking point, just like having Arch in the class. There were 7 different manufactures in the top 8 qualifying positions for the race, separated by a second. It's exciting racing that keeps people coming back for more.
Also if one bike has a clear advantage MotoAmerica can rebalance things by requiring bikes carry additional weight or run other performance limiting systems. For example the HD bikes all have restrictor plates on their intakes to limit power.

[Specter]

thats the only draw back.   set formula for hp and it involves volts and amps.  as your pack starts losing volts you start losing top hp, unless you are not using it all to begin with..but thats real hard to do in a race, especially on a bike like that, thats instant power and torque, to NOT step on it.

maybe...if they have the headroom with battery temp, they can open up the c rate a bit, let it pull an extra 100 amps on the lastl lap as an example or on the final back stretch, its only like a 30 second burst if that and that shouldn't be enough to redline them, and if they do get close to limiting, well.. the race is over, get er in and on the cooler.

man id love to go see one of his races. i need to look into that

aaron