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

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

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
Championship reserve drivers
Drivers Rounds
Germany Claire Schönborn[29] All
France Adrien Tambay[29] All

Driver and team changes

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

X-Prix

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

Grand Final
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]
Redemption Race
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

Grand Final
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]
Redemption Race
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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