Racing to save the planet

Inzane ends the season on the podium at Thruxton

Russ Joyner got a well earned third place at the final 2009 appearance of the biofuelled Ducati. A lap speed of over 98mph gave the team another UK biofuelled bike record.

Click the picture to see Russ looking good in his Crescent Performance leathers, with the Minitwins racing as close as always.
Russ gets in amongst the fossil Suzukis at Thruxton

Pictures by Racing Lines

"Racing ahead with Biomass" - Game Engineering

The Inzane biofuelled Ducati sported the colours of Lincoln based materials handling company Game Engineering at the recent Cadwell and Snetterton BMCRC Minitwins rounds. Game is "racing ahead with biomasss" as a leading supplier to the biomass power and biofuel manufacturing industry.
Click the picture to see Russ Joyner putting the Game bike past Richard Willshire (#34) at Snetterton for a fourth place finish.

Adam Palfreman crests the mountain at Cadwell

Pictures by Racing Lines

An Inzane Laverda leads the Thunderbikes at Snetterton

Russ Joyner gave the ex Baines Racing Laverda 750 Formula another outing on 5th September 2009 at Snetterton in two Thunderbike UK races. Starting from the back of the field in the first race, Russ stormed thorugh to finish fourth and then used the front row start to lead the second race until a missed gear robbed him of a podium with another fine fourth place finish.

Russ hits the front in the second Thunderbike UK race

Pictures by Swaffs and Racing Lines

Michael Saunders shines at Cadwell Park

Michael Saunders rode the Inzane bio-fuelled Laverda 650 Formula rather stylishly in a BMCRC Minitwins race at Cadwell Park in August. Michael carved through the 40 strong field of Suzukis, taking the 14 year old Laverda into 7th place before sliding off on the last corner.

Michael Saunders led more than 30 SV 650s in some style.

Pictures by Swaffs and Racing Lines

Sweet success for British Sugar Bioethanol at Oulton

Inzane carried the logos of the UK's only domestic bioethanol manufacturer, British Sugar, at the Oulton Park BMCRC meeting in June. British Sugar manufactures 70 million litres of bioethanol per year at its Wissington Factory in Norfolk . Proving that the fuel is an excellent fuel component as well as being cleaner and greener than fossil fuel, Russ Joyner delivered a close fought second and a third in the minitwins.

Russ passes Adam Molloy for second place in race one. Click for more pictures.

Inzane drag racing at Santa Pod

24th April 2009 saw the second Alternative Energy Drag Racing Event at Santa Pod. While Russ's UK e85 standing quarter record (10.86s) from last year was well beaten by Adam Child from MCN running a Kawasaki ZZR1400, the team Inzane Bikes ran against each other in a biofuel minitwins only drag race. Adam Palfreman put in the fastest time on the team's Ducati 800ss at 12.152s (113.11mph) with the Laverda 650 only slightly behind with a very respectable 12.191s (111.16mph).

Whilst the MCN bike is undoubtedly the fastest road bike available, running it on e85 pump fuel (and yes, it is cheaper than petrol) gave it sufficient extra power to put it "into the 10s" with a run of 9.9509s (145.22mph) which is the first time a showroom bike has run sub 10s in the UK!

Ian Calvert (Laverda 650) and Adam Palfreman (Ducati 800SS) burning... vegetables!

Tim Keeton from Impact Images gave us permission to use the pictures he took for MCN. Click this to see his pictures:

Inzane win at BMCRC Brands Hatch centenary meeting 18th April 2009

....but it was close! Russ Joyner finished fourth in the first Minitwins race at Brands Hatch, putting him on the front row for the second race which turned out to be the closest race of the meeting. Glynn Davies and Dan Hopkins battled for first place throughout the race, with Glynn finally pipping Dan at the finish by less than 0.1s. Unfortunately for Glynn, Russ had slipstreamed him out of Clearways, crossing the line 0.04s ahead to take a memorable win!
Click the picture for some action shots:

Crash, bang, splash! Down but not out at Snetterton 28/29 March 2009

A windswept and rain-lashed Snetterton meant that Russ, the bio Ducati and the team's championship aspirations all took a real battering with a couple of crashes and no points on Saturday. Lots of graft, glass fibre and gaffer tape got us back out on Sunday with Russ coaxing the bike round for an 8th and a 5th.
Click the last ever picture (below) of Russ's superb custom helmet for some more pics:

Can we get it sorted for the Brands Centenary meeting on April 18th or will the Laverda be back......?

Biofuels in Motorsport - meet Inzane

Ian Calvert of Inzane and Rupert Paul of MCN will be giving a talk on Bioethanol and Bikes
to the IMechE at Goodrich, Wolverhampton on the evening of 26th March.

Blue look for Green Ducati at Brands Hatch

New leathers from Crescent Performance and a well executed custom helmet from BLD Group gave Russ Joyner a new look as he piloted the Inzane Ducati to two podiums at the opening Brands Hatch round. It all looks good for the season: judge for yourself by clicking the picture: