ACCIONA Sainz completes Desert X Prix first-time winner sweep

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The 2022 Excessive E season noticed 4 groups win a Closing. Whereas the 2023 season is twice as lengthy due to the brand new doubleheader format, it already has two totally different victors in as many races.

Carlos Sainz‘s ACCIONA | SAINZ XE Group is the latest workforce so as to add their title to the all-time win listing when Mattias Ekström and Laia Sanz held off Saturday winner Veloce Racing within the Grand Closing. The victory lastly bought the workforce over the hump after coming shut with a pair of runner-up finishes in 2022, whereas Ekström notched his maiden victory in simply his second race with the outfit, having changed Sainz for 2023 as a result of accidents his Audi rally raid team-mate sustained at the Dakar Rally in January.

“What an important weekend at Excessive E. Driving for Carlos’ workforce already felt particular, however bringing dwelling P2 and workforce’s first ever WIN was simply wonderful,” tweeted Ekström. “Laia drove extremely and the entire #AccionaSainz workforce did an important job. Let’s proceed like this.”

The win got here after a really shut name in qualifying as ACCIONA | Sainz barely made the Grand Closing on a tiebreaker. The workforce had tied with X44 for fifth within the classification after two rounds of heats at twelve factors apiece, aided by X44 receiving a 3.7-second penalty of their second warmth for Cristina Gutiérrez dashing within the swap bay that relegated them from third to fourth.

Veloce had dominated Sunday’s qualifying by profitable each of their heats. With Veloce and ACCIONA | Sainz buying and selling firsts and seconds in each days’ Grand Finals, they’re tied atop the standings. Rosberg X Racing sits third after taking the final step of the rostrum for each Finals.

Regardless of lacking out on the Closing, X44 simply claimed the Redemption Race with ten seconds over McLaren. JBXE completed on the backside of the classification after Hedda Hosås rolled within the comfort race.

Andretti ALTAWKILAT had a very tough weekend after rolling twice on Saturday earlier than Kevin Hansen did so once more in Warmth #1 of the second spherical. The workforce mustered a 3rd within the Redemption Race.

Grand Closing outcomes

End	Quantity	Group	Whole Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	55	ACCIONA \| Sainz XE Group	11:10.821	Mattias Ekström	Laia Sanz
2	5	Veloce Racing	11:16.348	Kevin Hansen	Molly Taylor
3	6	Rosberg X Racing	11:18.250	Johan Kristoffersson	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky
4	125	ABT CUPRA XE	11:18.808	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Klara Andersson
5	99	GMC Hummer EV Chip Ganassi Racing	11:33.142	RJ Anderson	Amanda Sorensen

* – Obtained a penalty

Redemption Race outcomes

End	Quantity	Group	Whole Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	44	X44 Vida Carbon Racing	11:10.132	Fraser McConnell	Cristina Gutiérrez
2	58	NEOM McLaren XE	11:20.282	Tanner Foust	Emma Gilmour
3	23	Andretti ALTAWKILAT Excessive E	11:43.428	Timmy Hansen	Catie Munnings
4	8	Carl Cox Motorsport	13:53.666*	Timo Scheider	Christine GZ
5	22	JBXE	DNF	Heikki Kovalainen	Hedda Hosås

Qualifying outcomes

Spherical #1

Warmth #1

End	Quantity	Group	Whole Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	5	Veloce Racing	11:25.061	Kevin Hansen	Molly Taylor
2	44	X44 Vida Carbon Racing	11:27.838	Fraser McConnell	Cristina Gutiérrez
3	23	Andretti ALTAWKILAT Excessive E	11:28.131	Timmy Hansen	Catie Munnings
4	125	ABT CUPRA XE	12:34.105	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Klara Andersson
5	8	Carl Cox Motorsport	DNF	Timo Scheider	Christine GZ

Warmth #2

End	Quantity	Group	Whole Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	6	Rosberg X Racing	11:27.999	Johan Kristoffersson	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky
2	99	GMC Hummer EV Chip Ganassi Racing	11:28.995	RJ Anderson	Amanda Sorensen
3	55	ACCIONA \| Sainz XE Group	11:29.614	Mattias Ekström	Laia Sanz
4	58	NEOM McLaren XE	11:40.046*	Tanner Foust	Emma Gilmour
5	22	JBXE	11:40.341	Heikki Kovalainen	Hedda Hosås

Spherical #2

Warmth #1

End	Quantity	Group	Whole Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	5	Veloce Racing	21:02.544	Molly Taylor	Kevin Hansen
2	99	GMC Hummer EV Chip Ganassi Racing	21:09.941	Amanda Sorensen	RJ Anderson
3	58	NEOM McLaren XE	21:16.34	Emma Gilmour	Tanner Foust
4	8	Carl Cox Motorsport	21:19.993	Christine GZ	Timo Scheider
5	23	Andretti ALTAWKILAT Excessive E	DNF	Catie Munnings	Timmy Hansen

Warmth #2

End	Quantity	Group	Whole Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	125	ABT CUPRA XE	11:22.546	Klara Andersson	Nasser Al-Attiyah
2	6	Rosberg X Racing	11:27.189	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky	Johan Kristoffersson
3	55	ACCIONA \| Sainz XE Group	11:29.295	Laia Sanz	Mattias Ekström
4	44	X44 Vida Carbon Racing	11:32.391*	Cristina Gutiérrez	Fraser McConnell
5	22	JBXE	11:34.222	Hedda Hosås	Heikki Kovalainen