2025 Extreme E Championship
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Catie Munnings (left) and Andreas Bakkerud (right) won the last ever Extreme E race for Team Hansen.
The 2025 Extreme E Championship,[1] promoted as The Final Lap,[2] was the fifth and final season of the Extreme E electric off-road racing series.[3][4] Planned in the aftermath of the failed 2024 season, it consisted of a one-off farewell event held at Qiddiya City, Saudi Arabia against the backdrop of the Tuwaiq mountains.[5][6] The double-header took place on 4–5 October 2025, days before the inaugural edition of the hydrogen-based, FIA-backed Extreme H World Cup.[7]
Johan Kristoffersson and Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky won round one for Kristoffersson's KMS outfit,[8] while Catie Munnings and Andreas Bakkerud won the last ever Extreme E race for Team Hansen.[9]
Calendar
[edit | edit source]On 6 September 2024, with only 4 of 10 races in its 2024 campaign completed, Extreme E announced the cancellation of its planned remaining rounds.[10] With the season on hold, founder and CEO Alejandro Agag stated the series was "reviewing alternative solutions" to fulfil its calendar.[11]
The attempts did not come to fruition and instead, on 4 September 2025, nearly a full year later, a one-off return was announced.[12] Scheduled for early October at an undisclosed location in Saudi Arabia, later confirmed to be Qiddiya City,[13] it served as a final send-off for Extreme E before it formally passed the baton to Extreme H.[14]
| Round | Event | Location | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Desert X-Prix | Saudi Arabia Qiddiya City, Saudi Arabia | 4 October 2025 |
| 2 | 5 October 2025 |
Teams and drivers
[edit | edit source]The year-long hiatus and imminent hydrogen switch resulted in a significant shakeup, with five of the eight teams being new.[15][16] Acciona | Sainz and JBX remained from the 2024 grid, the former with an unchanged lineup, while Carl Cox Motorsport returned.[17] All teams used one of the identical Odyssey 21 electric SUVs manufactured by Spark Racing Technology and consisted of a male and a female driver, who shared a car and had equal driving duties.[18] The event saw Yokohama replace Continental as tyre supplier.[19]
| Team | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria STARD[20] | 7 | United Kingdom Patrick O'Donovan[21] | All |
| United States Amanda Sorensen[20] | All | ||
| United Kingdom Carl Cox Motorsport[22] | 8 | Sweden Klara Andersson[22] | All |
| Germany Timo Scheider[22] | All | ||
| Sweden Team KMS[23] | 14 | Sweden Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky[23] | All |
| Sweden Johan Kristoffersson[23] | All | ||
| United Kingdom JBX powered by Team Monaco[24] | 22 | Spain Christine GZ[24] | All |
| Finland Tommi Hallman[24] | All | ||
| Spain Acciona | Sainz XE Team[17] | 55 | Jamaica Fraser McConnell[17] | All |
| Spain Laia Sanz[17] | All | ||
| Saudi Arabia Jameel Motorsport[25] | 80 | Sweden Kevin Hansen[25] | All |
| Australia Molly Taylor[25] | All | ||
| Germany Claire Schönborn[26] | 1 | ||
| Sweden Team Hansen[27] | 90 | Norway Andreas Bakkerud[27] | All |
| United Kingdom Catie Munnings[27] | All | ||
| Sweden Team EVEN[28] | 96 | Norway Hedda Hosås[28] | All |
| Norway Ole Christian Veiby[28] | All |
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| Drivers | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Germany Claire Schönborn[29] | All |
| France Adrien Tambay[29] | All |
Driver and team changes
[edit | edit source]- Austrian R&D company STARD, known for building the electric Ford SuperVan, entered Extreme E for the first time and recruited Amanda Sorensen and Patrick O'Donovan.[20]
- English DJ Carl Cox revived his team after a year's absence, and linked up 2023 driver Timo Scheider with Klara Andersson. Scheider also doubled up as team principal, a role he had previously held at SUN Minimeal.[22]
- After Rosberg X Racing disbanded at the end of 2024,[30] two-time champion Johan Kristoffersson set up his own XE and XH squad for himself and teammate Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky.[23] Kristoffersson Motorsport (KMS) also entered a second car in collaboration with talent agency EVEN Management, fielding the Norwegian duo of returnee Hedda Hosås and rookie Ole Christian Veiby.[28]
- Jenson Button rebranded his JBXE team to JBX and joined forces with Team Monaco, a project set up by kite surfer Maxime Nocher and investor Chris Taylor.[24] They ran an all-new lineup of Christine GZ and Tommi Hallman, who made his championship debut after serving as reserve driver in 2023 and 2024.[31]
- Despite being the first team to commit to Extreme H in February 2025, Veloce Racing did not appear on the final grid of either event.[32] Saudi firm Jameel Motorsport then launched a team and signed former Veloce pair Kevin Hansen and Molly Taylor.[25]
- As Andretti Global ended its Extreme E involvement, Timmy Hansen stepped up and brought his father's FIA World Rallycross Championship team Hansen Motorsport to the grid. He secured the services of long-term teammate Catie Munnings and former JBXE driver Andreas Bakkerud.[27]
- Legacy Motor Club and McLaren did not return to Extreme E, with the latter also pulling out of Formula E.[33]
- Mid-season changes
- After an accident in the first qualifying heat of round one, Molly Taylor was transferred to a local hospital for checks. She was replaced by reserve driver Claire Schönborn for the rest of the day and returned for round two.[34]
Results and standings
[edit | edit source]X-Prix
[edit | edit source]| Round | Event | Qualifying 1 | Qualifying 2 | Qualifying Overall | Super Sector | Redemption Race | Grand Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat 1 | Heat 2 | Heat 1 | Heat 2 | ||||||
| 1 | Saudi Arabia Desert X-Prix | Sweden KMS | Sweden Hansen | Spain Acciona | Sainz | Sweden EVEN | Spain Acciona | Sainz | Sweden EVEN | Saudi Arabia Jameel | Sweden KMS |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia Jameel | Sweden Hansen | Sweden KMS | Sweden EVEN | Saudi Arabia Jameel | Sweden EVEN | United Kingdom JBX | Sweden Hansen | |
| Source:[1][35][8][36][9] | |||||||||
Round one
[edit | edit source]| Pos. | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | Sweden Team KMS | Sweden Johan Kristoffersson Sweden Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky |
4 | 10:25.519 |
| 2 | 96 | Sweden Team EVEN | Norway Ole Christian Veiby Norway Hedda Hosås |
4 | +1.235 |
| 3 | 90 | Sweden Team Hansen | Norway Andreas Bakkerud United Kingdom Catie Munnings |
4 | +12.343 |
| 4 | 55 | Spain Acciona | Sainz XE Team | Spain Laia Sanz Jamaica Fraser McConnell |
1 | Collision |
| Source:[37] | |||||
| Pos. | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 80 | Saudi Arabia Jameel Motorsport | Sweden Kevin Hansen Germany Claire Schönborn |
4 | 10:43.297 |
| 6 | 22 | United Kingdom JBX powered by Team Monaco | Finland Tommi Hallman Spain Christine GZ |
4 | +7.002 |
| 7 | 7 | Austria STARD | United Kingdom Patrick O'Donovan United States Amanda Sorensen |
4 | +7.080 |
| 8 | 8 | United Kingdom Carl Cox Motorsport | Germany Timo Scheider Sweden Klara Andersson |
4 | +18.789 |
| Source:[38] | |||||
Round two
[edit | edit source]| Pos. | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90 | Sweden Team Hansen | United Kingdom Catie Munnings Norway Andreas Bakkerud |
4 | 11:11.037 |
| 2 | 80 | Saudi Arabia Jameel Motorsport | Australia Molly Taylor Sweden Kevin Hansen |
4 | +2:34.409 |
| 3 | 14 | Sweden Team KMS | Sweden Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky Sweden Johan Kristoffersson |
0 | Collision |
| 4 | 96 | Sweden Team EVEN | Norway Hedda Hosås Norway Ole Christian Veiby |
0 | Collision |
| Source:[39] | |||||
| Pos. | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 22 | United Kingdom JBX powered by Team Monaco | Spain Christine GZ Finland Tommi Hallman |
4 | 10:34.908 |
| 6 | 8 | United Kingdom Carl Cox Motorsport | Sweden Klara Andersson Germany Timo Scheider |
4 | +23.730 |
| 7 | 7 | Austria STARD | United States Amanda Sorensen United Kingdom Patrick O'Donovan |
4 | +48.370 |
| 8 | 55 | Spain Acciona | Sainz XE Team | Jamaica Fraser McConnell Spain Laia Sanz |
0 | Did not start |
| Source:[40] | |||||
See also
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