• Third race of the debut season this weekend in Kangerlussuaq
• All the races will be shown live Europe-wide
• Racing Series on Continental’s Special CrossContact Extreme E Tires

​​Extreme E puts pedal to the metal. After the dramatic start in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, and the technically challenging course on the banks of Retba Lake in Senegal, the spectacular new off-road racing series will start on August 28 and 29 in the eternal ice of Greenland. The races will be held near Kangerlussuaq with the fully electronic ODYSSEY 21 track-only hypercars. The town is approximately 50 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, at the end of the fjord of the same name, which is approximately 163 kilometers long, and is by far the most inland settlement in Greenland. The race track, chosen with scientific input, is a long sandbank made of stone dust, transported naturally over the years by the glacier. The race will be broadcast on various European TV stations. Continental also offers an opportunity to watch the races live on its webcast: https://www.continental-tires.com/car/stories/extreme-e/broadcast. The exciting question is, which of the nine teams will make best use of the time after the season start, and finish in the lead under the difficult conditions in Greenland. 

Sandra Roslan, Head of Content Marketing & Social Media and Project Lead Extreme E

“Greenland is an extreme setting in every way for spectacular motorsport,” says Sandra Roslan, who is responsible for the project at founding partner and tire manufacturer Continental. “The hostile local conditions will be an extremely tough test for the material and everyone involved. At the same time, Greenland is at the front line of the global climate emergency. Nowhere else in the world are the unprecedented effects of global warming more obvious. Greenland lost 600 billion metric tons of ice in just the past year.”

In the competition between the motorsport giants from very different disciplines, the Rosberg X Racing team goes to the start as leaders in the overall rankings with World Rallycross Champion Johan Kristoffersson, and former Australian Rally Champion Molly Taylor. Rally World Champions Sébastien Loeb and Cristina Gutiérrez from Lewis Hamilton’s Team X44 were this year’s stage winners at Dakar and are only 14 points behind. Formula 1 champion Jenson Button and Continental test pilot Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky follow in third place, 13 points behind. All the other teams are clustered in a breathtaking neck-and-neck race. The fourth-placed team, Andretti United, is just seven points ahead of the current tail-ender Segi TV Chip Ganassi Racing, which only a lot of bad luck kept from better rankings in the preceding race weekends in Saudi Arabia and Senegal.