DRIVER LINEUP

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  Cristina Gutiérrez

  Cristina Gutiérrez is a stand-out talent who is rewriting the rulebook for female drivers. Winning the Extreme E Season 2 Championship with X44 Vida Carbon Racing, she has been one of the quickest drivers in the series.
  
  In addition to finishing the notoriously difficult Dakar Rally seven times, Gutiérrez made history as the first woman to ever win the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies, the second to win a stage in the Dakar Rally (2021) and the third to stand on a podium in the Dakar Rally (2022).
  
  Heading into 2023, the Spaniard was the quickest female in her class for the Dakar Rally this year as she continues to excel since she started racing at just four years old.
  
  

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  Mattias Ekström

  Ekström returns to Extreme E for Season 3 following Carlos Sainz Snr.’s injury sustained in the Dakar Rally at the start of the year.
  
  A new chapter dawned for Ekström in 2019, when he joined CUPRA as an e-ambassador to be part of the Spanish company’s future of electro mobility on the race track. Competing in Season 1 as part of the ABT CUPRA XE team, the 41-year-old secured the team’s maiden podium at the Island X Prix in second place with Dakar legend Jutta Kleinschmidt.
  
  Having first raced with ABT Sportsline in 1999, Ekström rose to prominence in the world of motorsport as a long-time Audi factory driver.
  
  Together with his EKS team, Ekström went on to compete in the FIA World Rallycross Championship, which culminated in the 2016 championship title. The Swede is an FIA World Rallycross Champion, a two-time DTM champion and a four-time winner of the Race of Champions, including the 2023 event in Sweden.