Eccola qua' finalmente, la moto contro la macchina, ma non la MotoGP contro quei mostri infernali di formula 1, ma due mezzi della produzione di serie a confronto, magari non i migliori in assoluto, ma molto rappresentativi, una R6 contro una Mercedes da 469 CV. Purtroppo la storia e' in inglese, ma si dovrebbe capire:
It’s an age-old question: which is faster, a car or a motorcycle?
Of course, it all depends on which car and which motorcycle. But what about a €130,000 Mercedes-Benz AMG E55, featuring a hand-built 5.4-litre supercharged V8 engine producing 469bhp against a stock Yamaha YZF-R6, 123bhp and yours for less than €11,500?
A tough ask for the bike you’d think, but that didn’t stop a group of Dutch journalists from throwing down the gauntlet. To do so, they enlisted the help of their country’s top motorcyclist, Belgarda Yamaha Team’s Jurgen van den Goorbergh, and Christijan Albers, the young Dutchman who caused a sensation by finishing second in the 2003 German DTM Touring Car championship.
Off they all went to Assen armed with the street versions of the machines they raced in 2003, Jurgen on the stock R6 and Albers driving the exclusive Mercedes.
It was a close run thing. The car may have almost four times the power and cost ten times as much as the R6, but in the end Jurgen upheld the honour of bikers everywhere, taking the laurels by around 10 seconds thanks to R6’s vastly superior power-to-weight ratio.
“I was always confident that the bike would be faster,” smiled Jurgen. “He didn’t have a chance!”
Jurgen (left) and Christijan Albers
Jurgen cuts through the traffic!