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Cake Announces Inaugural Cake World’s MX Race
Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer, Cake, announced recently it will hold “the inaugural Cake World’s, a unique motocross race that will pit 16 riders, both male and female, against each other in a 4X round robin format. All riders will compete aboard the same bike: the Cake Kalk OR Race.”
The event will take place August 20-21, 2021 on the grounds of the famed Gotland Ring in Sweden
“Gotland is the spiritual home of Cake, and I’m excited to host the motocross world on a unique track in a location that’s very special to us,” said Cake founder Stefan Ytterborn. “I’m also proud of the work we’re doing to not only push the world towards reducing its carbon footprint but also to promote gender equality in motor sports.”
The concept was dreamed up by Ytterborn, but the task of making it reality fell on Race Director J.P. Barolo. While some elements, like round robin seeding and practice sessions were easy to adapt from regular motocross racing, the Cake World’s presented some unique challenges due to the fact that only eight bikes will be shared between the field of 16 riders.
“We had to pay very careful attention to the amount of time each bike will be ridden, the number of spare batteries we will need, how much down time we need to recharge those batteries, and how best to spread out the heats so each rider gets enough time to learn the bike and the track,” said Barolo.
The Austrian division of the Red Bull Media House will be producing coverage of the event.
For more information about Cake, visit https://ridecake.com/en/
Would You Rather?
If you’re a regular reader of this column, then you know about the Supercross Live feature Would You Rather? that has been running the last few weeks. According to our unofficial analytics, that’s at least 2 to 3 million people that are reading this column weekly, so you are surly up to date. If not, go back and find some, they are great. This week, it’s Colt Nichols, RJ Hampshire and Michael Mosiman in the hot seat.
I Found My New Sport
Is there a way to gamble on this? Asking for a friend…
MotoGP Riders Talk Arm Pump
If you’ve ever ridden moto, you know about arm pump! Some don’t experience, Slaw on the other hand gets it before I even hit the track. Well, it also greatly affects MotoGP riders. NBC Sports recently put together a video with the top stars discussing the injury.
Vurb Original: ALL IN
ArtDog crushed this. Watch it if you haven’t already.
