Marko Hanželic
Team Rosberg X Racing (RXR) it also won the second race of the new racing series of electric SUVs Extreme E, which took place on Lac Rose beach near the Senegalese capital Dakar. In the turbulent final, the Australian and the Swede defeated the team Veloce in posture Jamie chadwick in Stephane Sarrazin.
Compared to the first race in Saudi Arabia we were able to see real racing fights in style this time “Bike by bike” and a lot overtaking, which is definitely a big plus for the competition as such. For the first time, the finals were held in such a way that they competed in it four teams, but it soon became clear that two teams would clash to win. Molly taylor it closed the way right at the beginning with an uncompromising maneuver Cristina Guttierez (Team X44), where there was also a collision and Gutierrez's she had to turn off the road and lost two places, making the team Lewis Hamilton, which shone in the qualifiers, finished in fourth place.
The team didn't fare much better either Jenson Button (JBX), since he was on the race car Mikaele Ahlin-Kottulisky broke the rear suspensions so they are with a teammate Kevin Hansen, who replaced Button in Senegal, finished in third place. Because of all of the above, we saw a red flag in the middle of the race, and a restart offered an unequal duel between Kristofferson, world champions in rallycross and Jamie chadwick, which is much better on the asphalt, which is why the race was easily turned in his favor by the team racer Rosberg X Racing.
In the semi-finals, the team was unfortunately eliminated due to difficulties in changing drivers ABT Cupra, which is in Senegal by the side Mattias Ekström vehicles of the former winner of the Dakar Rally, Jutta kleinschmidt, which replaced the diseased Claudio Hürtgen. Even though it’s been a while since her last professional race nine years and to get to the competition Extreme E she practically didn’t prepare, she did Kleinschmidt impressed with her speed. Ob copper the team also stayed in the semifinals after a hard fight Hispano-Switzerland.
In the championship, after two races, the crew leads Taylor / Kristoffersson (Rosberg X Racing) with 77 points, in front of the crew Gutierrez / Loeb (Team X44) and crew Ahlin-Kottulinsky / Button (JBXE) with 44 points. The next race will be on August 28 and 29 in Kangerlussuaq na Greenland.
