The 2nd Annual REFUEL Electric Vehicle Motorsports Day is done. It was a great day at the track (pictures and links to video to follow) and the competition in the SportElectric Time Trial (especially the Prototype Class) hints at an exciting future. The Kleenspeed WX10 bettered last year’s time with a 1:42.512. The Wrightspeed X1 showed a real challenge to the leader but after spinning in Turn-6 caught traffic in the make-up run and finished 9 seconds behind for 2nd Place followed by the Palotov Motorsports DP1e. A hot lap spin also vexed the Optamotive E.Rex in Turn-11, resulting in a 4th place finish. On the motorcycle front, a limited field of competitors gave Kenyon Kluge an easy first place on his modified Zero S with a 2:11.475 followed by Ryan Hollowell’s Honda conversion and Nicholas Murphy on his Zero. The production class was taken by Nathan Gabriel with a 1:55.641 followed by returning competitors Bill Arnett and Stephen Casner. Here’s some video from the event. Much more information to come.
Expected to Attend: The Wrightspeed X1
Ian Wright has registered to attend this year’s REFUEL event with his X1. If you haven’t seen this electrified adaptation of an Ariel Atom smoke a variety of supercar competitors all over YouTube, just google “Wrightspeed X1″.
Expected To Attend: ZERO Motorcycles
We’re happy to see that Zero Motorcycles will be represented at REFUEL this year by Keynon Kluge of KSquared Racing riding a Zero S. Kenyon participated in the first US TTXGP so his presence in the SportElectric TT should make things interesting on the bike side. More participant info to follow.Registration Updates
KleenSpeed WX10 at REFUEL 2009
We’re starting to get registrations in for this year’s event. Among other cars returning from 2009 are the KleenSpeed WX10, the current holder of the electric fastest lap record at Mazda Raceway. More participant announcements to follow.
REFUEL 2010 announced on AutoBlog Green
See the post here: http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/14/refuel-returns-with-sportelectric-tt-at-laguna-seca/
REFUEL 2010 & SportElectric TT Website Now Online
The new website is up with information about this year’s event including a registration option.
REFUEL 2009 Paddock
We’re currently reaching out to participants both at the grass-roots/enthusiast level and among manufacturers and those with ancillary interest in the exploding EV scene. See the website: www.refuelraces.com
REFUEL 2010 – Laguna Seca, July 11th
We’re putting together the 2010 Schedule at Speed Ventures and all signs point to a 2nd Annual REFUEL event taking place in Monterey at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on July 11th. We’re just starting to plan the event but it will once again involve free track time for electric vehicles. More info coming soon.
Next Refuel Event (tentative)
Looks like we won’t be doing the Southern California REFUEL event this year. Takes a certain amount of effort (and dough) to put one of these together so we’re storing up our resources to try again for a venue in Northern California next year. We’re just building our 2010 schedule at the moment so with any luck, we’ll announce something by the first of the year.
Videos from Laguna Seca REFUEL Event
Here are some video links from July’s REFUEL event at Laguna Seca.
Here’s a great wrap-up of the event from The Octane Report.
David Herron posted video at VisforVelocity.com.
He also wrote about the event here:
Patmont Motor Werks brought their super sweet Shocker electric motorcycle and posted video:
Two videos of electric vehicles in the Corkscrew:
Last but not least, Steve Muscarelli’s handlebar-mounted video shot from his electric pocket bike during his SportElectric Time Trial lap.
First Ever REFUEL Event
Speed Ventures’ first ever Alternative Vehicle and Clean Power track day took place on July 19, 2009, at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. A variety of cars, motorcycles, Karts and a solar car showed up to turn laps on the world-famous home of, among others, the Monterey Historic Automobile Race, American Le Mans and the MotoGP U.S. Grand Prix.
We’ll be posting photos and links to video from this first REFUEL event but we’re already planning our next Alternative Vehicle track day, tentatively scheduled for November in Southern California.
