X44 closes after three XE seasons
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Lewis Hamilton’s 2022 Extreme E championship-winning Team X44 is exiting the series.
McLaren will have a pair of rally raiders for the 2024 Extreme E lineup as they sign Mattias Ekström and newly crowned Dakar Rally Challenger winner Cristina Gutiérrez.
SUN AG, which produces the pocket-sized Minimeal snacks, will enter Extreme E with SUN Minimeal Team for Timo Scheider and Klara Andersson starting in 2024.
The 2025-bound Extreme H car recently concluded its maiden shakedown. Extreme E hopes to run its first public laps in Sardinia.
Season 4 of Extreme E will once again begin in Saudi Arabia and have two rounds in Sardinia, along with a to-be-announced location in Europe and a new season finale in Phoenix, United States.
After two years, Tanner Foust and Emma Gilmour will not return to McLaren XE for the 2024 Extreme E season.
Ahead of Extreme H’s inaugural season in 2025, the series has joined forces with the FIA and Formula One to form the Hydrogen Working Group to oversee hydrogen part development.
After three seasons, ABT CUPRA XE will end their Extreme E programme to focus on Formula E, though they are keeping the door open for a potential Extreme H entry.
Rosberg X Racing survived a chaotic Copper X Prix Grand Final to win their second Extreme E championship.
Christine GZ has returned to her post as Extreme E’s female Championship Driver for the 2023 season-ending Copper X Prix.
ETCR champion Adrien Tambay will dabble in off-road racing yet again next week when he enters the Extreme E season finale in Chile for ABT CUPRA XE.
Tamara Molinaro will team up with fellow former Championship Driver Andreas Bakkerud at JBXE for the Copper X Prix as JBXE’s Hedda Hosås heads to McLaren.
After racing for JBXE for much of the 2023 Extreme E calendar, Hedda Hosås will take over for the injured Emma Gilmour at McLaren at the season-ending Copper X Prix.
Kyle LeDuc, one of the greatest drivers in short course history who’s raced in series like Championship Off-Road, Stadium Super Trucks and Extreme E, passed away after a battle with cancer.
Veloce Racing’s Extreme E car will sport a chrome-and-purple look for the season-ending Copper X Prix in December following a vote.
X44 beat Rosberg X Racing to wrap up the second Island X Prix with a win.
The second Island X Prix’s first Grand Final ended with nearly everyone suffering damage, which ACCIONA | Sainz took advantage of to seal the win.
