![]() “If anybody has had any experience with Alejandro, they know that’s his approach: to look at the ridiculous and make things happen,” Extreme E race director Scot Elkins said. Noble and initially regarded as impossible or at least improbable, Agag’s marriage of responsibly inventive racing and eco-rescue is on the threshold of reality. That, in turn, if the experiment goes as planned, should promote environmental responsibility, reduce the overall climate impact from sports, promote sustainable and responsible consumption globally-yes, save the Earth. The series’ strategy is to use the race cars as research-and-development projects in the hope that their environment-compatible innovations will filter into automakers’ consumer-production market. The whole purpose of Extreme E is to spotlight some of the most remote, most damaged ecosystems on Earth to raise awareness of climate-change challenges-all while showcasing the performance capabilities of all-electric SUVs in extreme conditions.Įxtreme E series founder Alejandro Agag John Lamparski // Getty Images It will debut this weekend with the Desert X Prix in Al’Ula, an archeological treasure trove in the northwestern region of Saudi Arabia that’s bound to this racing enterprise by ecological forces as fierce as its sun-parched conditions. Series founder Alejandro Agag could not have timed the launch of his revolutionary off-road series brainchild, Extreme E, any more perfectly. The field will be divided into two four-car groups in each session. Day 1 consists of two qualifying sessions. teams are Andretti United (with Sweden’s Timmy Hansen and England’s Catie Munnings) and Segi TV Chip Ganassi Racing (with Americans Kyle LeDuc and Sara Price). ![]() Formula 1 champions Lewis Hamilton (X44), Nico Rosberg (Rosberg Xtreme Racing), and Jenson Button (JBXE) own three teams.Extreme E, the all-electric SUV series, opens debuts April 4-5 with the Desert X Prix in Al’Ula.
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