2025 Extreme E Championship

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]

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]

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]

• Austrian R&D company STARD, known for building the electric Ford SuperVan, entered Extreme E for the first time and recruited Amanda Sorensen and Patrick O'Donovan.^[20]
• English DJ Carl Cox revived his team after a year's absence, and linked up 2023 driver Timo Scheider with Klara Andersson. Scheider also doubled up as team principal, a role he had previously held at SUN Minimeal.^[22]
• After Rosberg X Racing disbanded at the end of 2024,^[30] two-time champion Johan Kristoffersson set up his own XE and XH squad for himself and teammate Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky.^[23] Kristoffersson Motorsport (KMS) also entered a second car in collaboration with talent agency EVEN Management, fielding the Norwegian duo of returnee Hedda Hosås and rookie Ole Christian Veiby.^[28]
• Jenson Button rebranded his JBXE team to JBX and joined forces with Team Monaco, a project set up by kite surfer Maxime Nocher and investor Chris Taylor.^[24] They ran an all-new lineup of Christine GZ and Tommi Hallman, who made his championship debut after serving as reserve driver in 2023 and 2024.^[31]
• Despite being the first team to commit to Extreme H in February 2025, Veloce Racing did not appear on the final grid of either event.^[32] Saudi firm Jameel Motorsport then launched a team and signed former Veloce pair Kevin Hansen and Molly Taylor.^[25]
• As Andretti Global ended its Extreme E involvement, Timmy Hansen stepped up and brought his father's FIA World Rallycross Championship team Hansen Motorsport to the grid. He secured the services of long-term teammate Catie Munnings and former JBXE driver Andreas Bakkerud.^[27]
• Legacy Motor Club and McLaren did not return to Extreme E, with the latter also pulling out of Formula E.^[33]

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]

• 2025 FIA Extreme H World Cup

• Official website