Zef Eisenberg

On Jan 2020, Eisenberg was shortlisted for the Richard Burton Salver | Outstanding individual sporting achievement of the year by a sportsman resident in Guernsey 2020 for his motor racing achievements in 2019

Eisenberg who has been a long time fan of the iconic, Isle of Man TT, sponsored three times IOM TT podium winner Daley Mathison and Dr Miguel Gimeno Fabra on the Nottingham of University (NOU) Electric motorbike under the Zero TT class for 2019. The NOU bike had been designed to be more powerful and capable than all its previous years. The day before MADMAX Team rider Daley Mathison was meant to ride the Zero TT bike to number one podium position, sadly Daley, was killed in the Superbike crash. Zef Eisenberg promised Daley's wife Natalie, and family that this was unfinished business and he would take the NOU bike to world record glory himself as a tribute and final send-off to Daley. The MADMAX / NOU electric motorbike was re-engineered to be more powerful than ever and on Sept 21/22, Eisenberg, along with the help of Dr Miquel achieved four FIM world speed records (at Elvington, Yorkshire), wearing Daley's actual 'daisy' kneesliders and with Daley's wife Natalie present, Eisenberg fulfilled his goal of making the bike into a world record bike for Daley. This technological feat achieved in record time, inspired the The Royal Automobile Club (RAC) club to name Eisenberg as the winner of the SIMMS award, a highly prestigious accolade, only given in years of exceptional motorsport performance.

His success in Land Speed Racing has led Zef to become a TV presenter/racer with a new 'high octane' TV series called Speed Freaks, a six-episode production on ITV4 , produced by Keshet, focusing on Land Speed racing and Speed. This 6 x 60’ series will see daredevil Zef Eisenberg take on his toughest challenge yet - to break the British land speed record in a car he plans to engineer himself. With over 40 land speed records currently to his name, he's already done it on a bike at the iconic Pendine Sands in Wales. Now Zef wants to finish what Sir Malcolm Campbell started in 1927 and break the 200mph barrier in a car and, in doing so, become the only person to hold the British land speed records on both two and four wheels. In order to prepare for this dangerous feat, Zef is scouring the nation to meet fellow motoring mavericks and glean essential engineering know-how from their incredible “franken-machines”.  Whether they've fitted a 24,000cc W12 aero-engine into a car, or built from scratch a full Dakar off-road racer, Zef's going to get behind the wheel and under the bonnet of Britain's fastest cars, bikes and boats. Inspired by these extraordinary machines, Zef will challenge his own team of mechanics to take a different vehicle each week and make it as fast as humanly possible. The knowledge they gain will play a crucial part in helping this real-life Tony Stark and his team prepare Zef's crazy 1200hp specially built road-legal Porsche 911 Turbo S for the series finale - his death-defying record attempt at Pendine Sands. Speed Freaks has been commissioned for ITV4 by Paul Mortimer, Head of Digital Channels and Satmohan Panesar, Commissioning Editor, Factual Entertainment. David Williams, Keshet Productions said, “This high-octane series features a feast of items and VTs geared up to indulge anyone with an interest in cars, motorsports and engineering.  Zef’s need for speed and desire to break that land-speed record is infectious and makes for compelling viewing.” In May 2019, Eisenberg achieved his goal of achieving the fastest ever wheel driven vehicle bike and car at Pendine sands, with speeds in excess of 210mph.

In April 2019, Eisenberg set a new fastest 'wheel powered' flying mile record on a motorbike at Pendine sands, reaching 182.40mph. beating the previous record set by Sir Malcolm Campbell in 1927 of 174mph and actor Idris Elba's 2015 effort.

On 17th May 2019, Zef Eisenberg, returned to Pendine with his MADMAX Race Team sponsored bespoke 1200hp Porsche 911 Turbo and on his very first pair of runs, he achieved the following records;

-      As of 2019, Zef Eisenberg, is the only person in history to have achieved over 200mph on bike and car at Pendine, and a flying mile record in bike and car in Britain, and the only person to hold car and bike records, other than John Surtees, CBE who competed in the English Grand Prix motorcycle and Formula One.

On 21/22 Sept 2019, Zef Eisenberg, achieved four FIM world records for the fastest ever electric (unfaired) motorbike with the MADMAX / Notts uni Zero TT bike, achieving, 2-way average 1-kilometre speeds of 185mph, one-mile speeds of 194.04mph and peak GPS speeds of 197mph in just over a mile in Elvington, Runway 26 at Yorkshire.

On Nov 2019, Eisenberg was awarded the The Royal Automobile Club (RAC), SIMMS award, a highly prestigious accolade, only given in years of exceptional motorsport performance.

In 2019, Eisenberg was awarded 'Parish champion of the year' in the 'Pride of Guernsey' 2019 awards for their amazing 5yr project to deliver the Saumarez Park playground Project.

Eisenberg is an ultra-high-speed motorbike racer. He holds the Guinness World Record (2 way average in a mile) for the fastest turbine-powered motorbike at 225.4 mph and . and naked motorbike (no fairing) in Britain also at 225.4mph. He holds the world land-speed record for the same motorbike, with a 1 way peak top speed of 234.01 mph, achieved in May 2018. The motorbike was powered by a 580hp Rolls Royce C20W engine which comes from the Agusta 109 helicopter.

In May 2018, Eisenberg broke the worlds land-speed record for a motorbike on sand, reaching 201.5 mph. This was also the first time that anyone had broken the 200 mph barrier on either a motorbike or car at Pendine Sands.

As of September 2017, Eisenberg appears to have fully recovered. On the anniversary of the crash, he returned to Elvington Airway, Yorkshire, to race on the same bike. Zef was nominated in his home Island of Guernsey for the 'overcoming adversity' awards twice in 2017 and 2018.

In 2017 and 2018, Eisenberg was nominated for the short list for Pride of Guernsey 'Overcoming Adversity' award.

In September, 2016, Eisenberg crashed on a turbine-powered motorbike at 234 mph at Elvington Airfield, Yorkshire. He was presumed dead on the scene and airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary.

In 2015, Eisenberg came second in the ITV Ambassador of the year for Guernsey.

The property business has bought and sold properties worth around £210 million in London, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar. It bought BBC Villers House in 2012 for £16 million. with plans to develop the largest Ealing Cross Rail Station, iconic office block and retail.

Zef Eisenberg set up MADMAX Race Team in 2011 from Guernsey. The MADMAX is a specialised engineering team that works with the best to develop some of the world's most extreme and powerful motorbikes, cars, quads and land speed vehicles. The MADMAX Race Team is behind multiple world land speed records on bikes, quads and cars, with over 50 land speed, British, world and Guinness records to its name, including the world's fastest electric unfaired bike.

In 2010 Maximuscle was selling £80 million worth of products per year. In 2011, GlaxoSmithKline bought Maximuscle for £162 million. At the time, Maximuscle was Europe's best-selling sports nutrition brand. Zef Eisenberg continued on in a consultancy role with GSK for Maximuscle. The German food giant Kruga (with 2 Billion Turnover) bought Maximuscle from GSK in Jan 2018.

Zef Eisenberg lives in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, where he became full-time resident in 2005. having been a regular visitor since 7 years of age (1980) with his father. Since living on the island he has project managed and raised funds to build both the largest concrete skatepark in Guernsey and the largest adventure playground at Saumarez park, Castel.

In 2002, Eisenberg was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

In 1995, Eisenberg founded sports nutrition brand Maximuscle with £3,000. Initially supplying whey-based supplements, the company's product range grew to include drink powders, edible gels and protein bars.

While working at the store, Eisenberg wrote a monthly newsletter on the science of nutrition and, in 1993, self-published a book on the same topic. Eisenberg used the profits from the book to start supplying protein supplements to other bodybuilders.

Zef Eisenberg (born March 1973) is founder of sports nutrition brand Maximuscle and an ultra-speed motorbike racer. He holds numerous land speed records for motorbike racing. His success in Land Speed Racing has led him to become a TV presenter racer with the new TV series called Speed Freaks, a six episode production on ITV4 , produced by Keshet. He has also appeared on several other TV shows, most notably The Bike Show with Henry Cole with Zef's famous MADMAX Turbine bike. Eisenberg best known for his motorbike exploits is a self-proclaimed ‘Speed Freak’ and no stranger to speed, he currently holds over 50 British and world land speed records including a prestigious Guinness World Record. His records include the world's fastest turbine bike (234mph), the UK's fastest (no-fairing) 'naked' bike (225.6mph), world's fastest motorbike racer on sand ever at 201.5mph to Britain's fastest-ever motorcycle crash at over 230mph. Fastest ever wheel powered vehicle in a 1500hp Porsche at Pendine sands @ 210.33mph and fastest electric motorbike in the world (unfaired) with a 197mph GPS peak speed.

The autosports arm builds bespoke high-speed bikes and cars. The brand manufactures the EISENBERG V8 (EV8), the world's smallest and lightest V8 engine. under the EISENBERG Racing banner. Eisenberg has created a partnership with Prodrive, one of the UK's largest motorsport engineering brands to develop a limited production run of the 480hp motorbike. The bike is considered to be one of, if not the most, powerful production bike ever made, with a speed in excess of 225mph, a redline of 10,500rpm, more than twice the torque of a Triumph Rocket 3, up to 500hp (with race fuel), but weighing just 280kg dry and a wheelbase of 1650mm, no longer than a Ducati Diavel. The bike is expected to cost around £150,000 when launched sometime in 2021.