Although his racing career has been over for several years already, the adventures of Max Biaggi riding a sporty two-wheeler are never finished. The last took place in Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Italian motorcyclist set the world speed record with an electric motorcycle. The protagonist of this enterprise is Voxan Wattman, a French electric two-wheeler, thanks to which Biaggi has managed to achieve a top speed of 455.7 km / h, beating his previous record of 408 km / h.
“The desire to deal with adrenaline remained and this unique and extreme project reignited the fuse, reactivated a dormant passion – the words of Max Biaggi reported by Il Corriere della Sera on newsstands today – I was captivated by the idea of Gildo Pastor, president of the Venturi Group, who created a two-wheeled vehicle from scratch. capable of reaching supersonic speeds“. Therefore, if the pressure and emotional stress of MotoGP were set aside when he retired from competitions, the same cannot be said of the courage, nerves and head, necessary to get on such a fast two-wheeler. “When I was offered this challenge two years ago, I didn’t think at all that an electric-powered motorcycle could travel that fast – added Biaggi – My scale of values was made up of traditional engines with a certain amount of horsepower and a consequent sound. So it is a unexpected and different experience which requires a specific aptitude for spinning on straight sections “.
In addition to this world record, Biaggi recorded another 21, including one on the kilometer, mile, quarter mile, with mounted fairing, without fairing, standing start and flying start. A rain of records that inevitably shifts the discussion on the electric future of two-wheel competitions, an aspect on which the former MotoGP rider seems to have clear ideas: “This is an experiment aimed at obtaining an absolute primacy. From here to hypothesize an electric mobility it takes some. It’s early, even thinking about competitions“.
What does the future hold? Max Biaggi concludes as follows: “In order not to miss anything, I accepted this commitment with the electric motorcycle. Ultimately it doesn’t take long: four tests a year and a record attempt. But I don’t think it’s possible to go further. We drove close to 500 kilometers per hour. Even for a pilot used to traveling over 300, it makes an impression, the human eye no longer perceives images clearly, the view is filled with pixels. You look forward but you no longer see how it would serve. The suit, while being tight to the maximum, begins to vibrate, burns, burns the skin. This is really the extreme limit “.
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