Acciona | Sainz XE Team Starts New Extreme E Season With Laia Sanz, Mattias Ekstrom

RETURN

ACCIONA confirms its commitment to a pioneering competition in the motorsport world, which has no carbon footprint and promotes equality between men and women

QUALITY SUBSTITUTE

Carlos Sainz, who is still recovering from a Dakar Rally accident, will be with the team, but will be replaced at the wheel by Mattias Ekström in the inaugural Desert X Prix round

DEBUT

The first of the five rounds of the series will be held on March 11^th-12^th in the desert near NEOM, in Saudi Arabia, with a new format that doubles the points at stake

NEOM (SAUDI ARABIA), MARCH 2^nd, 2023. The ACCIONA | SAINZ XE Team faces the third season of Extreme E with the aim of winning the title of a sustainable motor racing championship that promotes the fight against climate change, the transition to electric vehicles and equality in the teams’ composition.

The ACCIONA team will be looking for its first victory after the boost in competitiveness it showed in the 2022 season, when it finished third in the Teams and Drivers’ standings.

Laia Sanz will once again defend the ACCIONA | SAINZ XE Team colors, well established as one of the best drivers in the off-road racing world and in the Extreme E championship, in what will be her third season as a member of the team.

She will start the series alongside Mattias Ekström, ACCIONA | SAINZ XE Team’s new signing for the first round of the season, as Carlos Sainz is recovering from the accident he suffered in the last Dakar Rally edition. Sainz will travel to NEOM and participate in team decisions there.

Ekström will offer the experience from his prolific career in the FIA World Rallycross Championship, a competition he won in 2016, and the DTM championship, which he won twice. He has already participated in the inaugural 2021 season and is currently Carlos Sainz’s teammate in the Dakar Rally.

With this new foray into top-level motor racing, ACCIONA will seek to reinforce its social commitment to the fight against climate change and the need to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy through mass sport events.