[Videos] Max Biaggi will attempt the speed record on an electric Voxan

It is on a Voxan Wattman, the first electric motorcycle developed by the Venturi company, well known as an automobile manufacturer, that Max Biaggi plans to improve the world speed record for electric motorcycles.

It was in the United States on the Bonneville Salt Lake in Utah that the Japanese Ryuji Tsuruta recently established a new record. On his machine called “Mobitec Machine EV-02A”, Ryuji Tsuruta managed to reach the speed of 204,484 mph, that is to say 329,085 km/h, officially certified by the FIM as a new record.

Claude Poiraud (engineer) and Gérard Godfroy (designer) presented the first Venturi automobile at the 1984 Paris Motor Show. It was an 850 kg two-seater prototype, equipped with a 2-liter VW Golf GTI engine. Then the Monegasque Gildo Pallanca Pastor acquired the company, which was facing real difficulties. It then launched into the manufacturing of electric vehicles.

For its notoriety, it created the VBB (Venturi Buckeye Bullet, also called the Venturi “Jamais Contente” program, in reference to the first electric vehicle to exceed 100 km/h). This is the first installment of the Venturi Global Challenge. On September 25, 2009, the VBB-2, developed in partnership with Ohio State University, set an international land speed record at 487 km/h (303 mph) on the Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah, USA). Venturi also competes in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship.

The Monegasque firm has decided to adopt the same method of promotion for its Voxan Motors motorcycles. Max Biaggi was chosen as pilot, and here he presents the beginning of the implementation of this attempt:

In recognition of the possible location of the future record, the Salar de Uyuni, in Bolivia:

The Venturi team, during its automobile record:

Videos and photos © Max Biaggi / Venturi / Voxan Motors