The University of Michigan’s SPARK Electric Racing Team is on a mission. Comprised of university engineering students, it's been hard at work experimenting with and building electric racing motorcycles since 2013. To close out summer, 2022, SPARK took home second and third place in AHRMA’s Formula Lightning race in New Jersey—in only the team’s second racing competition ever.
By 2024, SPARK aims to compete at the Isle of Man TT—so never let it be said that the team lacks ambition. In fact, if you visit SPARK’s official webpage in late November, 2022, you’ll see the ‘24 IOMTT listed as its planned next race. While the team may not have some of the resources that larger, full-time racing outlets do, it also likely deals with completely different kinds of pressure, which could be a plus.
