Now it’s 1-1 to Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. Rosberg X Racing dominated Extreme E’s inaugural season last year, while Hamilton’s X44 team came through at the final round to clinch the 2022 title. Nico wasn’t in Uruguay, but appeared on a Zoom call an hour after the chequered flag. “I can’t believe we lost the championship. It was in our hands for ages.” He said he’d been screaming at the TV at home in Monaco, jumping up and down and tearing his luxuriant hair out. “Every possible thing went wrong this weekend. But it’s been brilliant racing out there. We’ve got the best drivers in the world now. You can see everybody’s on the edge. It went down to the wire.”
In year one, it was a tremendous achievement to get any global sports series off the ground, what with coronavirus restrictions still in effect. Extreme
