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Stefano Mesa’s Electric Adventure Racing Against Gas Bikes, In The August Issue

By Trudy Ulrich
By Trudy Ulrich

Stefano Mesa’s Electric Adventure Racing Against Gas Bikes, In The August Issue

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Early in the RSD Super Hooligans race at Laguna Seca, Stefano Mesa (137) on an Energica electric bike chased Jeremy McWilliams (99), Andy DiBrino (62), and Cory West (13), and led Tyler O'Hara, Nate Kern, Alex Taylor, and Josh Baird. Mesa raced Kern and Baird for sixth until slowing on the last lap with hot batteries, and finished 13th. Photo by Brian J. Nelson.
Early in the RSD Super Hooligans race at Laguna Seca, Stefano Mesa (137) on an Energica electric bike chased Jeremy McWilliams (99), Andy DiBrino (62), and Cory West (13), and led Tyler O'Hara, Nate Kern, Alex Taylor, and Josh Baird. Mesa raced Kern and Baird for sixth until slowing on the last lap with hot batteries, and finished 13th. Photo by Brian J. Nelson.

Featured In the August 2022 Issue of Roadracing World:

       When Editor-At-Large Michael Gougis interviewed Energica USA CEO Stefano Benatti, he hinted at the next racing project for the company’s electric motorcycles. 

        We now know that project was to enter an Energica in the Roland Sands Design (RSD) Super Hooligan race during the MotoAmerica event weekend at Weather Tech Raceway Laguna Seca and compete head-to-head against gasoline-fueled motorcycles. By all accounts the effort was a success and may lead to even more electric racing…

—Stefano Mesa’s Big Electric Adventure, by David Swarts

 

            It was an exercise in adaptation for racer Stefano Mesa, but he showed the potential of electric racing machines when he took an Energica Eva Ribelle RS streetbike into competition in the MotoAmerica RSD Super Hooligans class. Read how Mesa ran in the top six for most of the race—it’s in the latest issue of Roadracing World!

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