Extreme E, the electric off-road racing series, will move to its Season 2 finale this month (26-27 November) with the teams of former Formula1 colleagues, Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, battling for the championship title.
The Natural Energy X Prix in Punta del Este, Uruguay will see Rosberg X Racing (RXR) go in with a 17 points lead ahead of Hamilton’s X44 Vida Carbon Racing.
RXR has won two out of four X Prix races this season in their bid to secure back-to-back Extreme E championships while X44 won the last X Prix in Chile in their endeavour to go one better than their runners-up finish from Season 1.
In third and fourth sit ACCIONA | SAINZ XE Team (60 points) and No.99 GMC HUMMER EV Chip Ganassi Racing (55 points), respectively, who will be doing all they can to reel in RXR to claim their first-ever Extreme E title.
“I am eager to discover what challenges wait for us in Punta del Este,” said Carlos Sainz Snr. “We have been pushing all season long, but in Uruguay we will double our efforts because we still have a slim shot at the Championship. Hopefully it will be a good show for the fans.”
Since its inception, Extreme E has been a pioneer in using renewable energy sources to charge its electric racing vehicles, using green hydrogen and fuel cell technology for zero-emission racing. In Punta del Este, a first-time trial of wind turbines, second-life batteries and solar power aims to create the championship’s first fully renewable energy-powered event site.
During the last X Prix in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a new 14-day record was set for the number of days the site was powered by solar power. In Uruguay, the goal is to go one step further and take the whole event to off-grid power, as the team trials the use of wind turbines for the first time.
After last year’s dramatic ending to the inaugural Extreme E season, the finale to the 2022 campaign promises to be just as climatic.