Acciona Sainz came within a lap of winning the Extreme E championship in 2023, and with that painful heartbreak still fresh in the mind – after all, last season’s finale was only two short months ago – the team was keen to get this year off to a strong start to banish those memories.
NEOM McLaren sporting director Gary Paffett says that the team’s new driver pairing of Mattias Ekstrom and Cristina Gutierrez “exceeded expectations” at the Extreme E season opener in Saudi Arabia.
Acciona Sainz avenged its roll in Saturday’s Desert X Prix final to win the second part of the Extreme E season opener in Saudi Arabia. In what was a dominant performance in Sunday’s main event, Fraser McConnell got the holeshot from the start as he, along with two others, used the Hyperdrive.
Rosberg X Racing got its Extreme E title defense underway in strong fashion with a win in the first part of the Desert X Prix in Saudi Arabia, but it wasn’t straightforward, with the winning margin being the closest in the series’ history.
Extreme E has announced that Symbio will be its official hydrogen fuel cell supplier when the series is rechristened Extreme H in 2025. The electric off-road series will be making the change from battery-powered cars to fuel cell cars next season, in doing so becoming the world’s first full hyd.