Andreas Bakkerud will return to Jenson Button’s JBXE Extreme E team this year for his first full season in the electric off-road category, and will be joined by Dania Akeel at next week's Saudi Arabia season opener.Bakkerud joined the team from the second event of last season, replacing Formula 1...

NEOM McLaren will field an all-new driver lineup in Extreme E next season, with the departures of Tanner Foust and Emma Gilmour being confirmed on Tuesday.Foust and Gilmour have been McLaren's drivers in the all-electric off-road series since it entered at the start of 2022. The pair took a best...

Tamara Molinaro will return to an Extreme E race seat at next week’s Copper X Prix in Chile, filling the spot at JBXE vacated by Hedda Hosaas after her switch to McLaren.Molinaro will partner Andreas Bakkerud who began the season as a reserve alongside the Italian before replacing Heikki Kovalainen...

Emma Gilmour has been ruled out of the remainder of this weekend's Extreme E Island X Prix II after she sustained a rib fracture and concussion in today's first free practice session.The NEOM McLaren driver was coming to the end of her second and final lap in the opening session...

Argentinian GT racer Ezequiel Companc will make his Extreme E debut in the final round of the season, partnering Tamara Molinaro at XITE Energy Racing.Companc, son of Jorge and nephew of Luis – both of whom have competed in the World Rally Championship and the Dakar Rally – takes the...

Extreme E heads to the Americas for the first time this weekend with a trip to Chile for the Copper X Prix, the penultimate round of the season.The event comes after two previous aborted attempts to reach South America last season – rounds in Ushuia, Argentina, and Santarem, Brazil were...

XITE Energy Racing has changed up its Extreme E driver pairing for the upcoming Island X Prix in Sardinia.Timo Scheider and Tamara Molinaro will form an all-new driver pairing for the team, replacing Oliver Bennett and Klara Andersson.Scheider's deep resume includes back-to-back DTM titles in 2008 and 2009, as well...

Ahead of Extreme E’s Enel X Island X Prix this weekend, the electric off-road series has revealed the race course course that the nine teams and 18 drivers will tackle on the shores of Sardinia.The Mediterranean island will present one of the toughest challenges to date for both the drivers...

Tamara Molinaro has joined Extreme E in the role of Championship Driver. She replaces Jutta Kleinschmidt, who is moving over to race for ABT CUPRA XE for the remainder of the 2021 season. The 23-year-old Italian’s background includes racing in the U27 European Rally Championship. There, she captured the 2017...

Sport news*Italian is first female to sign up for season-long ERC bid in top-of-the-range machine*She graduates from ERC Junior Under 27 to ERC Junior Under 28 category*Molinaro: “Girls can do good in all motorsport with right attitude, passion and dedication”The FIA European Rally Championship is celebrating International Women’s Day (8...