Kiwi Emma Gilmour and American Tanner Foust will again team up for their second season of Extreme E with McLaren. This weekend they take on a double header, the Desert X Prix in NEOM in Saudi Arabia.
“I can’t wait to get back to NEOM, Saudi Arabia,” commented Gilmour. “I’m really looking forward to seeing the team again, we have so much to build on from our first season together and it was a really big learning curve.
“We had really good speed in the second half of Season 2, so I think we will be stronger as a team this year. The new sporting format is really exciting and will add different challenges and more racing, so I’m very much looking forward to that as well. It’s amazing to be continuing with the NEOM McLaren Extreme E Team and with Tanner for Season 3, as well as Leena, Teena and the team we have around us. I can’t wait for the season to get started!”
For Season 3, Extreme E has a new sporting format to showcase more racing action while minimising its carbon footprint.
Each X Prix will now be a double header event, featuring Qualifying and races on both the Saturday and Sunday of the race weekend. The championship will also introduce a five-car race Qualifying format in both Qualifying 1 and Qualifying 2, where each Qualifying round will consist of two five-car heats. The winner of each heat will score a championship point.
The Grand Final will follow, which will feature the top five cars from Qualifying, while the bottom five will compete in the Redemption Race.
Broadcast times:
Friday 10 March
- Free Practice 1: 09:30am – 12:00pm local / 06:30am – 09:00am MTC
- Free Practice 2: 02:00pm – 04:30pm local / 11:00am – 01:30pm MTC
Saturday 11 March
- Qualifying 1: 08:00am – 09:30am local / 05:00am – 06:30am MTC
- Qualifying 2: 12:30pm – 01:05pm local / 09:30am – 10:05am MTC
- Redemption Race and Grand Final: 03:00pm – 05:00pm local / 12:00pm – 02:00pmMTC
Sunday 12 March
- Qualifying 1: 08:00am – 09:30am local / 05:00am – 06:30am MTC
- Qualifying 2: 12:30pm – 01:05pm local / 09:30am – 10:05am MTC
- Redemption Race and Grand Final: 03:00pm – 05:00pm local / 12:00pm – 02:00pmMTC
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