MotoGP meets e-scooters? M0veElectric visits the Electric Skootr Championship trials
“The racing must be fast, dynamic and exciting. It is a sport for everyone,but it will only succeed if it promotes a new movement for safer, sustainable and more liveable cities.”While a calendar of events is yet to be released, it has been confirmed that races will be held across two days, for both individuals and teams.
The courses will be purpose built and anywhere from 400m to 1km in length. Rather than use existing race venues, organisers hope to build tracks from scratch within accessible inner-city areas around the world. “Testing has shown us that having the crossover of athletes from different racing backgrounds has helped us learn faster,” says Sarkissian. “They all have a number of transferable skills, but also different skill sets. That means a rider coming from motorcycle racing, for instance, is picking up techniques from someone coming in from a snowboarding background and vice versa.” A draft for riders will be made in January 2022, with the identities of the first riders being released shortly.
Developed by YCOM and Williams Advanced Engineering - yes, that’s a company affiliated to the Williams that any Formula 1 fans among you will be very familiar with - the e-scooter is called the Eskootr S1-X. Suffice to say it is nothing like the ones you or I can buy. In time Sarkissian thinks teams may be allowed to develop their own scooters.”Initially we want to set the benchmark and calibre for the sport, but over time we will accelerate this to allow teams to develop and drive innovation themselves,” he says.“We want to create an environment where fans and riders come together, to reinvent motorsport for the younger generations,” says Sarkissian.
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