ACCIONA Sainz leads Copper X Prix Free Practices
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Even with a ten-second time penalty in FP1 for hitting a checkpoint marker, ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team led the two Copper X Prix Free Practice sessions on Friday.
The inaugural Copper X Prix in Chile will take place on a 3.05-kilometre “roller coaster” circuit in the Atacama Desert.
XITE Energy Racing will retain Timo Scheider and Tamara Molinaro, who were last-minute additions for the Island X Prix in June, for the fina races of the Extreme E season in South America.
Ahead of the next Extreme E round in Chile, Team X44 has acquired title sponsorship from carbon credit investment company Vida Carbon Corp. to become X44 Vida Carbon Racing.
Under the new Racing for All programme, Extrem E teams may add a sixth engineer or mechanic if they have less than a year of experience working in pro racing.
A month after a Final wreck in the first Island X Prix between Rosberg X Racing and ACCIONA | Sainz, the ACM has modified penalties to drop the former from third to fifth, which in turn promotes JBXE onto the podium.
Following a meeting on Saturday between Extreme E and local officials, the season-ending Energy X Prix in Punta del Este intends to be the first race to allow fans.
Extreme E invited four female Student Ambassadors to the Island X Prix doubleheader week to gain experience working with the series. They will also join the championship for the final two races of the 2022 season.
Extreme E will appear in Forza Horizon 5’s Series 10 update, marking the series’ first time partnering with a video game, while developer Turn 10 Studios is now XE’s Official Gaming Partner.
Rosberg X Racing wins the Island X Prix again, and this time they get to keep it. Conversely, runner-up ABT CUPRA was disqualified due to an improperly fastened seatbelt.
Still reeling after losing the Island X Prix #1 win to penalty, Rosberg X Racing’s bounce-back campaign began with yet another sweep of the two qualifying rounds for the second weekend,
Despite a massive wreck in the first Island X Prix Final that left him hospitalised, Carlos Sainz will run the second race this weekend. However, with the ACCIONA | Sainz car too damaged, the team will use the Extreme E test vehicle.
Although Rosberg X Racing dominated the Island X Prix #1 round, a 30-second time penalty for a wreck that hospitalised Carlos Sainz promoted runner-up Chip Ganassi Racing to first. It is the American team’s first Extreme E win.
For the first time in Extreme E history, X44 is not the overall qualifying winner. Instead, championship leader Rosberg X Racing topped the first round and won its heat race. ACCIONA | Sainz won the second heat.
Chip Ganassi Racing led the way in the Island X Prix’s two Free Practice sessions and
was the only team to have sub-ten-minute times in both.
ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team’s ODYSSEY 21 will don a new livery for Extreme E’s return at the Island X Prix.
Compared to the 2021 layout, the 2022 Island X Prix course is shorter but has new features such as a large jump at the closing sector, rather than a downhill, that leads into the “Rollercoaster” chicane.
