The highly anticipated 2018 MotoGP season is ready to kickoff this weekend in Qatar. Also making its debut is the Energica Ego Corsa, the official FIM Enel MotoE World Cup electric motorcycle, and it will run its first lap under the lights at the Losail International Circuit. MotoE racing starts next year, in 2019.
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The 2018 FIM MotoGP? World Championship will start this week with the Qatar season-opener set to take place on March 18. It will be an epic date as Ego Corsa, the FIM Enel MotoE? World Cup electric motorcycle, will run its first demo lap in world premiere!
The first rider to get on track with the green rocket will be New Zealander, MotoGP Commentator and 500GP winner Simon Crafar.
Energica back on track
Energica, the only manufacturer chosen by Dorna for the FIM Enel MotoE? World Cup, comes from the heart of racing. The Energica concept came from the eCRP 1.4, the runner-up  World Champion and European Champion electric racing motorcycle. The team made two years of racing then they started working on the road version, Energica.
On the design of the bike has played a key role the CRP Group’s know-how because thanks to the CRP technologies developed for the aerospace and F1, the team were able to shorten the time to market and the timing of the research, keeping the products at the state-of-the-art.
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