Foust hoping Extreme E ride leads to expanded McLaren programs

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By Dominik Wilde - Oct 5, 2022, 2:18 PM ET

Foust hoping Extreme E ride leads to expanded McLaren programs

Over the last five years, McLaren has undergone a dramatic shift from being a Formula 1 team that occasionally makes road cars, to being a multi-discipline motorsport operation not unlike its original incarnation in the 1960s. Part of that has involved branching into off-road racing with Extreme E with Tanner Foust and Emma Gilmour.

Dominik Wilde
Dominik Wilde

Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?

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