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Author Topic: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT  (Read 5775 times)

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Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« on: May 12, 2015, 07:17:47 PM »
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2015, 08:22:18 PM »
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2015, 08:35:53 PM »
Quote from: teddillard on May 12, 2015, 08:22:18 PM
DAMN you're good:  http://insideevs.com/victory-race-isle-man-rebranded-brammo-empulse/

...beat me by minutes.

:D
Popped up on my twitter feed and you could say I got pretty excited.
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2015, 08:39:24 PM »
I just found the Victory video they posted - the editor's updating the post now.
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2015, 04:40:41 AM »
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2015, 04:56:42 AM »
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2015, 05:14:02 AM »
Domenick found that on my story  ;D
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2015, 02:19:25 AM »
They just posted a 100mph+ lap for their first practice yesterday:
http://insideevs.com/victory-makes-first-ever-iom-tt-zero-lap-tops-100mph-average/
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2015, 07:48:10 PM »
It looks like Mugen may have the "inside track" at the IOM right now. Apparently they are about 10 mph faster than Victory in qualifying: 

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/06/08/mcguinness-breaks-tt-zero-record-qualifying/
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2015, 09:10:33 PM »
So Honda has been flexing its muscles at the IOM TT for 2 years now.  When are they going to make a production bike?
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2015, 01:00:10 AM »
I'm sure that when Honda do come to market with an electric bike it'll be worth the wait. :-)
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2015, 03:03:26 PM »
I worry however that the Victory/Brammo is designed to be a short course bike, its going to struggle a wee bit on the mountain, still hopefully it'll give the Shindens a run for their money. Especially as the Sariola SP7 has not been posting the sort of times I hoped it would.

However Guy Martin is riding for Victory after Will Dunlop was injured. Martins a better rider than Dunlop.

Sadly though not only are the Shidens good bikes, they have McGuiness and Anstey piloting them... what you really need on the other Victory is Hutchy.
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #12 on: June 10, 2015, 03:53:45 PM »
Lee Johnson posts a decent 112mph through the first split. Anstey leading at 119mph

(4 bikes are not being timed)

Glen Helen Split
1. Bruce Anstey52015 BA Mugen Shinden 4   04:52.554   119.363 (4:52.554)L1
2. John McGuinness   2015 JM Mugen Shinden   04:53.406   119.016 (4:53.406)L1
3. Lee Johnston3   Brammo   05:10.875   112.328 (5:10.875)L1
4. Guy Martin6   Victory   05:19.927   109.150 (5:19.927)L1
5. James Cowton9   2015 BRUNEL BX-15   06:29.068   89.753 (6:29.068)L1
6. Michael Sweeney10   2015 E Bike University of Nottingham   07:12.451   80.749 (7:12.451)L1

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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #13 on: June 10, 2015, 03:57:45 PM »
Top speed recorded in sector 2 - 163mph John McGuiness (Sulby speed trap)

Sector 2 Ballugh
1. John McGuinness1   2015 JM Mugen Shinden   03:21.570   125.824 (8:14.976)L1
2. Bruce Anstey5   2015 BA Mugen Shinden 4   03:24.681   125.253 (8:17.235)L1
3. Lee Johnston3   Brammo   03:39.848   117.349 (8:50.723)L1
4. Guy Martin6   Victory   03:42.361   114.847 (9:02.288)L1
5. Robert Wilson7   2014 Sarolea SP7   09:13.656   112.489 (9:13.656)L1  (transponder started working)
6. James Cowton9   2015 BRUNEL BX-15   04:51.471   91.516 (11:20.539)L1
7. Michael Sweeney10   2015 E Bike University of Nottingham   05:30.184   81.664 (12:42.635)L1

Sector 3 Ramsey Hairpin
1. John McGuinness1   2015 JM Mugen Shinden   03:31.689   130.925 (11:46.665)L1
2. Bruce Anstey5   2015 BA Mugen Shinden 4   03:34.404   130.010 (11:51.639)L1
3. Lee Johnston3   Brammo   03:51.074   121.450 (12:41.797)L1
4. Guy Martin6   Victory   03:53.872   119.202 (12:56.160)L1
5. Robert Wilson7   2014 Sarolea SP7   03:57.959   116.875 (13:11.615)L1

Sector 4 Bungalow
1. John McGuinness1   2015 JM Mugen Shinden   03:39.299   126.744 (15:25.964)L1
2. Bruce Anstey5   2015 BA Mugen Shinden 4   03:36.730   126.415 (15:28.369)L1
3. Lee Johnston3   Brammo   03:49.172   118.430 (16:30.969)L1
4. Guy Martin6   Victory   03:52.752   116.323 (16:48.912)L1
5. Robert Wilson7   2014 Sarolea SP7   04:03.011   113.432 (17:14.626)L1

Sector 5 Cronk-ny-mona
1. John McGuinness1   2015 JM Mugen Shinden   02:30.422   122.744 (17:56.386)L1
2. Bruce Anstey5   2015 BA Mugen Shinden 4   02:30.978   122.407 (17:59.347)L1
3. Lee Johnston3   Brammo   02:40.178   114.772 (19:11.147)L1
4. Guy Martin6   Victory   02:41.483   112.885 (19:30.395)L1

Grandstand
1. John McGuinness1   2015 JM Mugen Shinden   01:02.357   119.279 (18:58.743)L1
2. Bruce Anstey5   2015 BA Mugen Shinden 4   01:03.438   118.857 (19:02.785)L1
3. Lee Johnston3   Brammo   01:05.734   111.620 (20:16.881)L1
4. Guy Martin6   Victory   01:07.592   109.717 (20:37.987)L1
5. Robert Wilson7   2014 Sarolea SP7   04:00.630   106.510 (21:15.256)L1

« Last Edit: June 10, 2015, 04:07:48 PM by Justin Andrews »
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Re: Victory Racing is fielding a 2 bike team at Isle of Man TT
« Reply #14 on: June 10, 2015, 04:05:45 PM »
McGuiness wins it at 18:58.743 ; 119.279 mph...


111.62 mph for the Victory bike, that's really respectable.


Hahaha! McGuiness apparently was slower to the first split than Anstey because he had his bike effectively on Eco mode... He flipped it over to full power for the rest of the race.
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