The Extreme E final battle will take place December 18-19 in Dorset, UK. There, Rosberg X Racing and X44 are playing for glory to make history in the category as the first champions; however, further down the field, the fight is also intense with up to four teams with the same interest in common: third place.
Andretti United Extreme E, JBXE, ABT Cupra XE and ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team will be the protagonists of a great battle aiming to reach the podium of the competition, so the Dorset track will be more than just the final race of the 100% electric off-road category.
Andretti and JBXE have been quite consistent during the championship, in fact, they have several podium finishes to their credit. The gap between the two is only one point (93 and 92 respectively), so excitement is fully assured from these two teams, but at the same time, they should drive with caution, as any mistake will end with their aspirations.
“Our goal is to finish the season as we started it, with a podium! We know we are capable of doing that and it is absolutely our plan to finish the year on a high, and a top-three result is something we are confident we can achieve. We had the pace on both Greenland and Sardinia, but it didn’t go the way we wanted it last time” stated Catie Munnings, Andretti United’s driver.
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JBXE also has serious aspirations to finish third, and that’s how Kevin Hansen sees it, “Anything can happen at Extreme E, and I think we proved that in Greenland and Sardinia, just to make sure we can take the car as far as we can, and fast as possible. That will be our mentality heading into the Final series: we’ll try to do the best job we can, prepare as well as we can and go from there.”
Further down are ABT Cupra XE and ACCIONA | Sainz XE on fifth and sixth place, respectively. The former accumulates 83 points, while the latter registers 78, and although it seems a complicated mission, they still have a chance to climb up to third place, as they have shown a good race pace at various stages of the campaign.
“Another place, another challenge, that’s what Extreme E is all about. When I look at the circuit and the weather app on my phone, we can expect a lot of rain and mud. It will be fun as long as all the doors are closed on my car until the finish line…”, Mattias Ekström sentenced.
Finally, Albert Fàbrega, Team Manager at ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team, expects his drivers to give their all to show a good pace in the last performance: “This is the last chance we have, so we will be putting everything we have into the car to make it as reliable as possible, because we know that Laia and Carlos will give their best. The only thing we have to do is work to try to get a good set-up and give them the car to achieve a good result”.
Written by | Ronald Ortega
