Rosberg: We will remember this feeling forever

DECEMBER 19: Johan Kristoffersson (SWE), Rosberg X Racing, Molly Taylor (AUS), Rosberg X Racing, and Nico Rosberg, founder and CEO, Rosberg X Racing, celebrate winning the championship on the podium during the Jurassic X-Prix on December 19, 2021. (Photo by Charly Lopez / LAT Images)
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2016 Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg says he and his Rosberg X Racing team will remember the feeling of winning the inaugural Extreme E title “forever”.

Rosberg is most famous for claiming the F1 crown in a dramatic season-finale with title-rival and then team-mate Lewis Hamilton in Abu Dhabi to conclude the 2016 season. But last weekend, at the Jurassic X Prix Extreme E season-finale in Dorset, UK, it was Rosberg’s own team that was in the thick of the title-fight, with drivers Molly Taylor and Johan Kristoffersson.


And, despite Hamilton’s X44 squad claiming its first event win of the season, it was Rosberg’s team that prevailed to win the first-ever Extreme E championship title.
While RXR finished fourth in the last race of the year, Taylor and Kristoffersson proved to be the most consistent front-runners throughout Extreme E Season one, Starting with winning the first ever event, the Desert X Prix in Saudi Arabia.


Further victories at Ocean X Prix in Senegal and the Island X Prix in Sardinia gave RXR the advantage, a situation it managed under pressure throughout the Jurassic X Prix weekend to secure the crown.


“We are so delighted to be crowned the inaugural Extreme E Champions and I am really proud of the entire RXR team,” said RXR Founder and CEO Rosberg, who has played a major part of the RXR squad in the paddock and Extreme E’s command centre during the races throughout the year.


“The team has worked so hard all season and performed consistently, racing in some of the world’s most remote locations. To be Champions is such an honour. A massive congratulations to our drivers, Molly and Johan, who have been excellent all season. We came into Extreme E to raise awareness of climate change and promote sustainability, but also as a racing team, we want to win and so we will remember this feeling forever.”