The 2022 Desert X-Prix was an Extreme E off-road race that was held on 19 and 20 February 2022 in the future planned city of Neom, Saudi Arabia. It was the first round of the electric off-road racing car series' second season, and also marked the second running of the event, albeit in a different location to 2021. The final was won by Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky and Johan Kristoffersson for reigning champions Rosberg X Racing, ahead of the Acciona Sainz XE Team and Team X44.
Classification Qualifying Qualifying 2 draw Heat 1 Team X44 Chip Ganassi Racing Acciona Sainz XE Abt Cupra XE Veloce Racing Heat 2 Rosberg X Racing Andretti United XE Xite Energy Racing McLaren XE JBXE
TeamDriversQ1Q2TimeTime 1 44 Team X44 Cristina Gutiérrez Sébastien Loeb 2 9:10.515 9 2 9:00.620 10 19 2 23 Genesys Andretti United Extreme E Catie Munnings Timmy Hansen 2 9:14.695 8 2 9:10.693 10 18 3 99 Chip Ganassi Racing Kyle LeDuc Sara Price 2 9:15.842 7 2 9:20.200 8 15 4 6 Rosberg X Racing Johan Kristoffersson Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky 2 9:03.604 10 2 9:26.772 4 14 5 42 Xite Energy Racing Tamara Molinaro Oliver Bennett 2 9:17.403 6 2 9:24.396 8 14 6 55 Acciona Sainz XE Team Laia Sanz Carlos Sainz 2 9:21.355 5 1 4:59.752 6 11 7 22 JBXE Kevin Hansen Molly Taylor 2 10:04.367 2 2 9:26.064 6 8 8 58 McLaren XE Emma Gilmour Tanner Foust 2 9:26.979 4 2 10:03.366 2 6 9 125 Abt Cupra XE Jutta Kleinschmidt Nasser Al-Attiyah 2 9:50.385 3 2 12:14.592 2 5 10 5 Veloce Racing Lance Woolridge Christine GZ 1 9:14.817 0 0 No time 0 0Source: Key Colour Advance to Black Semi-Final 1 Silver Semi-Final 2 Bronze Crazy Race Gold Final Notes: Tie-breakers were determined by Super Sector times. – Abt Cupra XE were demoted one position and deducted two intermediate points for causing a collision in heat 1 of qualifying 2.
Semi-final 1 TeamDriversTimePoints 1 44 Team X44 Cristina Gutiérrez Sébastien Loeb 2 9:05.107 2 6 Rosberg X Racing Johan Kristoffersson Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky 2 +7.660 3 42 Xite Energy Racing Tamara Molinaro Oliver Bennett 2 +17.590 8Source: Notes: – Xite Energy Racing originally finished second, but later received a 10-second time penalty for taking down a waypoint flag.
Semi-final 2 TeamDriversTimePoints 1 99 Chip Ganassi Racing Kyle LeDuc Sara Price 2 9:12.337 2 55 Acciona Sainz XE Team Laia Sanz Carlos Sainz 2 +6.850 3 23 Genesys Andretti United Extreme E Catie Munnings Timmy Hansen 1 +1 lap 6Source:
Crazy Race TeamDriversTimePoints 1 58 McLaren XE Emma Gilmour Tanner Foust 2 9:14.250 2 125 Abt Cupra XE Jutta Kleinschmidt Nasser Al-Attiyah 2 +2.642 4 3 22 JBXE Kevin Hansen Molly Taylor 2 +11.623 2 4 5 Veloce Racing Lance Woolridge Hedda Hosås 2 +3:39.676 1Source: Notes: Veloce's Christine GZ was replaced by Hedda Hosås after suffering an injury in qualifying.
Final TeamDriversTimePoints 1 6 Rosberg X Racing Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky Johan Kristoffersson 2 27:08.453 25+5 2 55 Acciona Sainz XE Team Carlos Sainz Laia Sanz 2 +2.483 18 3 44 Team X44 Sébastien Loeb Cristina Gutiérrez 2 +5.807 15 4 99 Chip Ganassi Racing Sara Price Kyle LeDuc 2 +25.202 12 5 58 McLaren XE Tanner Foust Emma Gilmour 0 +2 laps 10Source: Notes: The race was red-flagged at the end of lap 1 after a crash for McLaren's Tanner Foust. All four other teams took the restart, with the gaps maintained. – Team awarded 5 additional points for being fastest in the Super Sector.
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