Cupra signs up Dakar Rally winner for second Extreme E season
She began last season as a reserve driver in the electric off-road racing championship but replaced the unwell Claudia Hürtgen for the second round and then kept the seat for the rest of the year.
Mattias Ekström was the team’s male driver last year, but he has been replaced by Al-Attiyah. While the Saudi is a newcomer to electric motorsport, he has extensive off-road experience: as well as his four Dakar titles, he's a five-time FIA Cross Country World Champion, the 2005 Production Car World Rally champion and a 16-time Middle East Rally Championship title-winner.
While all the Odyssey 21s used in the series are mechanically identical, teams are allowed to fit their own bodywork to relate them to road cars. Cupra was the first car maker to back a team in the series, and as a result its 2022 racer features styling that previews the forthcoming production version of the Tavascan electric SUV.
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