2023 Extreme E Championship

The 2023 Extreme E Championship was the third season of the Extreme E electric off-road racing series.

2023 Extreme E Championship

Drivers' Champions:
Johan Kristoffersson
Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky
Teams' Champion:
Rosberg X Racing

Previous

2022

Next

2024

Johan Kristoffersson (left) and Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky (right) won the championship driving for Rosberg X Racing.

Calendar

On 16 November 2022, the provisional 2023 season calendar was announced. Saudi Arabia, Sardinia and Chile returned from the previous year, with the latter moving to December, while Scotland joined. A further race in America, to take place in either Brazil or the United States, was scheduled for September as a replacement for Uruguay.^[1] This was later set to move to Argentina, but the plans fell through, with a second event in Sardinia eventually announced on 29 August 2023 to fill the slot.^[2]

Round	Event	Location	Dates
1	Desert X-Prix	Neom, Saudi Arabia	11 March 2023
2			12 March 2023
3	Hydro X-Prix	Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland	13 May 2023
4			14 May 2023
5	Island X-Prix I	Sardinia, Italy	8 July 2023
6			9 July 2023
7	Island X-Prix II		16 September 2023
8			17 September 2023
9	Copper X-Prix	Antofagasta, Chile	2 December 2023
10			3 December 2023

The following event was cancelled:

Event	Location	Original Dates
Amazon X-Prix or TBC X-Prix	Brazil, United States, or Argentina	16 September 2023
		17 September 2023

Race format

The weekend format was tweaked again prior to the start of season three. All events will now be double-headers, with one full round taking place on Saturday and another on Sunday. Qualifying was also updated, with time trials dropped in favour of five-car races: each of the two qualifying sessions will consist of two heats. With the aim of condensing the schedule into a single day, the race format that included a pair of semi-finals, a "crazy race" and a final was discontinued. It is now the combined qualifying results that determine what team advances where, with the top five qualifiers progressing to the grand final and the bottom five to the new "redemption race". This means that qualifying now limits how many championship points an entrant can score: a team qualifying in positions one to five can be classified fifth at worst, while a team qualifying sixth or lower can only aspire to sixth at best. The points system remained largely unchanged—the only variations being a reduction from 5 to 2 points for the fastest Super Sector, and the introduction of 1 point for the winner of a qualifying heat.^[3]

Teams and drivers

All teams that competed in the 2022 championship remained in 2023, with the exception of Xite Energy Racing which was taken over by English DJ Carl Cox. All teams use one of the identical Odyssey 21 electric SUVs manufactured by Spark Racing Technology, with ABT Cupra XE and Chip Ganassi Racing running modified bodyworks.^[4][5] Each team consists of a male and a female driver, who share a car and have equal driving duties.^[6]

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Veloce Racing[7]	5	Kevin Hansen[8]	All
		Molly Taylor[8]	All
Rosberg X Racing	6	Johan Kristoffersson[9]	All
		Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky[9]	All
Carl Cox Motorsport[10]	8	Christine GZ[11]	1–4
		Lia Block[12]	5–10
		Timo Scheider[11]	All
JBXE[13]	22	Hedda Hosås[13]	1–8
		Tamara Molinaro[14]	9–10
		Heikki Kovalainen[13]	1–2
		Andreas Bakkerud[15]	3–10
Andretti Altawkilat Extreme E[16]	23	Catie Munnings[17]	All
		Timmy Hansen[17]	All
X44 Vida Carbon Racing[18]	44	Cristina Gutiérrez[18]	All
		Fraser McConnell[18]	All
Acciona | Sainz XE Team[19]	55	Laia Sanz[19]	All
		Mattias Ekström[20]	All
Neom McLaren Extreme E Team[21]	58	Emma Gilmour[21]	1–7
		Tamara Molinaro[22]	7–8
		Hedda Hosås[23]	9–10
		Tanner Foust[21]	All
GMC Hummer EV Chip Ganassi Racing	99	Amanda Sorensen[24]	All
		RJ Anderson[24]	All
Abt Cupra XE[25]	125	Klara Andersson[25]	All
		Nasser Al-Attiyah[25]	1–4
		Sébastien Loeb[26]	5–8
		Adrien Tambay[27]	9–10

• A new team called XE Sports Group was scheduled to enter the series with backing from Australian footballer Tim Cahill, but deferred its entry to 2024.^[28][11]

Championship reserve drivers

Drivers	Rounds
Andreas Bakkerud[29]	1–2
Tommi Hallman[30]	3–4
Patrick O'Donovan[31]	5–10
Tamara Molinaro[29]	1–8
Christine GZ[32]	9–10

Results and standings

X-Prix

Round	Event	Qualifying 1		Qualifying 2		Qualifying Overall	Redemption Race	Super Sector[N 1]	Grand Final	Report
		Heat 1	Heat 2	Heat 1	Heat 2
1	Desert X-Prix	Chip Ganassi	X44	Veloce	Acciona | Sainz	Acciona | Sainz	McLaren	Acciona | Sainz	Veloce	Report
2		Veloce	RXR	Veloce	Abt Cupra	Veloce	X44	X44	Acciona | Sainz
3	Hydro X-Prix	Cancelled[lower-alpha 1]		X44	RXR	X44	Acciona | Sainz	Acciona | Sainz	X44	Report
4		Chip Ganassi	Acciona | Sainz	Chip Ganassi	Veloce	Chip Ganassi	JBXE	Veloce	Veloce
5	Island X-Prix I	RXR	Andretti	Acciona | Sainz	Chip Ganassi	Acciona | Sainz	Veloce	Acciona | Sainz	RXR	Report
6		RXR	Veloce	RXR	Acciona | Sainz	RXR	Abt Cupra	Chip Ganassi	RXR
7	Island X-Prix II	Acciona | Sainz	Abt Cupra	Acciona | Sainz	RXR	Acciona | Sainz	Andretti	Andretti	Acciona | Sainz
8		Abt Cupra	Acciona | Sainz	X44	Chip Ganassi	Abt Cupra	Veloce	Chip Ganassi	X44
9	Copper X-Prix	Veloce	X44	Acciona | Sainz	RXR	X44	Carl Cox	RXR	RXR	Report
10		McLaren	Acciona | Sainz	Veloce	X44	Acciona | Sainz	Chip Ganassi	X44	Veloce

Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top ten finishers. An additional 2 points are given to the fastest team in the Super Sector over the whole weekend. Starting from this season, the winning team and drivers in each qualifying heat get 1 extra point.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	QH	SS
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1	1	2[N 2]

Only the best four X-Prix results count towards the drivers' championship.

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos. Driver DES HYD ISL1 ISL2 COP Points 1 Johan Kristoffersson Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky 3 3H 5H 5 1H 1HH 4H 2 1H 2 159 2 Laia Sanz Mattias Ekström 2H 1 6 4H 2H 2H 1HH 9H 2H 4H 144 3 Kevin Hansen Molly Taylor 1H 2HH 7 1H 6 7H 3 6 5H 1H 138 4 Cristina Gutiérrez Fraser McConnell 4H 6 1H 9 8 8 9 1H 3H 3H 109 5 Amanda Sorensen RJ Anderson 5H 5 4 3HH 3H 4 8 4H 7 6 95 6 Klara Andersson 9 4H 10 8 4 6 2H 3H DNS 7 76 7 Catie Munnings Timmy Hansen 10 8 2 7 5H 3 6 7 DNS WD 69 8 Tanner Foust 6 7 8 2 7 9 10 DNS 4 5H 67 9 Hedda Hosås 8 10 9 6 10 5 7 5 4 5H 60 10 Sébastien Loeb 4 6 2H 3H 55 11 Timo Scheider 7 9 3 DNS 9 10 5 8 6 9 47 12 Andreas Bakkerud 9 6 10 5 7 5 8 8 45 13 Emma Gilmour 6 7 8 2 7 9 WD 44 14 Lia Block 9 10 5 8 6 9 27 15 Christine GZ 7 9 3 DNS 23 16 Nasser Al-Attiyah 9 4H 10 8 20 17 Tamara Molinaro 10 DNS 8 8 9 18 Adrien Tambay DNS 7 6 19 Heikki Kovalainen 8 10 5 Pos. Driver DES HYD ISL1 ISL2 COP Points

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Other points position Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) H – Qualifying heat winner * – Fastest in Super Sector

Teams' Championship standings

Pos. Team DES HYD ISL1 ISL2 COP Points 1 Rosberg X Racing 3 3H 5H 5 1H 1HH 4H 2 1H* 2 182 2 Acciona | Sainz XE Team 2H* 1 6* 4H 2H* 2H 1HH 9H 2H 4H 171 3 Veloce Racing 1H 2HH 7 1H* 6 7H 3 6 5H 1H 155 4 X44 Vida Carbon Racing 4H 6* 1H 9 8 8 9 1H 3H 3H* 121 5 GMC Hummer EV Chip Ganassi Racing 5H 5 4 3HH 3H 4* 8 4H* 7 6 113 6 Abt Cupra XE 9 4H 10 8 4 6 2H 3H DNS 7 81 7 Andretti Altawkilat Extreme E 10 8 2 7 5H 3 6* 7 DNS WD 71 8 Neom McLaren Extreme E Team 6 7 8 2 7 9 10 DNS 4 5H 68 9 Carl Cox Motorsport 7 9 3 DNS 9 10 5 8 6 9 50 10 JBXE 8 10 9 6 10 5 7 5 8 8 50 Pos. Team DES HYD ISL1 ISL2 COP Points

Notes

1. Qualifying 1 was cancelled due to low-lying fog that prevented the medical helicopter from flying.^[33] Qualifying 2 was used to establish the overall qualifying results.

1. Commercially known as the "Continental Traction Challenge".
2. Only for the teams' championship.

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