All of the above.
Its got a ZX6 front end. A Ducati 600 Swingarm and 160 rear tire. and it still weighs 220kg with its smaller battery pack (6kWh).
Plus to get the rear to work its best they had to raise it so much its rake is 21 degrees !!!
Pottz has an accelerometer that hes put on both our bikes at Mallala. We get the same speed through the kink but braking into the hairpin I pull 1.05G
and he pulls 0.72. That's 31% less brakes than me. MotoGP's do 1.7G
The short straight at Winton, hes got the power to pass me but doesn't have to brakes to stop afterwards so he has to wait for the longer straight.
The blue bike needs help too. Its motor is 450mm diameter and it has a jack shaft that goes behind the motor meaning the motor sits so far foreward,
the front tire rubs on it under full brakes. Jason (Morris) has had the rear wheel come up 10cm off the track cause the front locked when the motor slammed into it.
You can see dark rub marks on the center of the tire when he's going through turns.
eFXC Rnd 5 - Winton by Tony Castley, on Flickr
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