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Mission R at the joint FIM/TTXGP race at Laguna Seca to a first-place victory, with a margin of 39.995 seconds to second-place finisher MotoCyzsz. Rapp's qualifying time of 1:31.3 broke the previous Laguna Seca electric vehicle record by 7.5 seconds.
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September 2009, Mission's Product Manager Jeremy Cleland broke the AMA electric motorcycle land speed record during the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah riding the Mission One. The bike registered a 150.059 mph average of a two way pass.
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Higgins rode the street legal Mission R at the Sonoma Raceway 1/4 mile drag strip and set a National Electric Drag Racing Association (NEDRA) street legal electric motorcycle record for the SMC/A3 class with a time of 10.602 @ 122.57 mph.
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