This weekend, the second-ever Unsightly E event will occur, is named the Ocean X Prix. The teams head to Lac Rose, Dakar on the West African Senegalese wing and after the inaugural X Prix closing month in the Saudi Arabian deserts, this will likely be a stark contrast.
For those novel to Unsightly E, the all-electrical off-avenue racing category will hobble back and forth to diverse corners of the planet, to highlight the impacts that local weather alternate is having on our environment. Whereas many motorsport categories like gruesome CO2 emissions, Unsightly E is diverse. Crowds are invited to tune in from house, rather than travelling to the event.
Every event sees 9 teams of two, race the ODYSSEY 21, an all-electrical SUV that parts 400kW of vitality from a 54kWh battery (40kWh usable), succesful of a 0-100km/hr in 4.5 seconds. The batteries are specially designed and developed by Williams Developed Engineering, plugging into the expertise and expertise of the same minds who will likely be supplying the batteries for Gen3 of the ABB FIA Formulation E World Championship, initiating in 2023.
“I am cheerful to be relief in Dakar, a bunch of residing with a foremost motorsport heritage, and I will’t wait to explore our world-class line-up of drivers compete on this most modern route we like devised. The Desolate tract X Prix delivered some in point of fact thrilling racing with an glowing backdrop and I’m clear Senegal will present the same.
But in Lac Rose we discover an location suffering at the hands of the local weather crisis, which is the lawful reason we are here. It doesn’t consume long upon arrival to explore one of the largest issues, plastic pollution, which is affecting the local other folks and its marine lifestyles. Thru our Legacy Programmes, we are supporting the local other folks to accomplish alternate, and I will’t wait to explore it for myself and wait on where I will.”
Alejandro Agag, Founder and CEO or Unsightly E
Off-avenue racing returns to its roots
Positioned 37km from the capital, Dakar, the shores of Lac Rose hosted the finish of the world’s most eminent sinister-nation rally – the Paris-Dakar – on rather a lot of occasions between 1979 and 2007, and can play host to the Unsightly E Ocean X Prix this weekend.
Out on the route, drivers will once again face a largely sandy terrain, although a truly diverse concern and location to the deserts of Saudi Arabia. Here the race will consume to the existing tracks surrounding the lake, named after, and famous for its putting crimson color, precipitated by algae that flourishes within its highly-saline waters. The beefy route will likely be revealed in the coming days.
Racing layout
Once again, 9 teams and 18 drivers will compete, however in a microscopic alternate to the Saudi Arabia race layout, the Final will likely be a four-vehicle battle, with two teams from every of the two Semi-Finals progressing to the concluding race of the weekend.
Like the Desolate tract X Prix, Qualifying consists of two rounds of time trials. The crew initiating describe is determined by a arrangement for Qualifying 1 and Qualifying 2. All races characteristic two laps with the integrated driver ‘Switch’ characteristic.
Three races will occur as follows:
- The teams will likely be listed 1st to 9th set of residing based on the entire blended time of every crew’s two Qualifying runs.
- The top three teams hobble into the Semi-Final 1, where the top two finishers claim spots in the Ocean X Prix Final.
- The heart three teams (4th, fifth, 6th) battle by means of to Semi-Final 2, where again the top two progress to the Ocean X Prix Final.
- The backside three teams (7th, 8th and Ninth) head to the Shoot Out.
- The Ocean X Prix Final parts four vehicles – the top two finishers from every Semi-Final.
Teams can additionally profit from a HyperDrive enhance readily accessible to every driver on every lap of the race. Activated when the driver presses a button on the guidance wheel, they will procure pleasure from a further push of continuous vitality for a few seconds.
Unusual for the Ocean X Prix is the ‘Neat Sector’ – a component of the route where the fastest driver in that section over the weekend will fabricate five aspects for their crew. This ensures that no matter position the teams glean themselves in there is continuously an incentive to push to the restrict as aspects are up for grabs.
The world-class crew and driver line-up under, will all be in the relief of the wheel of the ODYSSEY 21 – a 550 bhp all-electrical SUV charged using zero-emission hydrogen gasoline cell technology.
- ABT CUPRA XE – #125 – Mattias Ekström / Claudia Hürtgen
- ACCIONA | Sainz XE Crew – #55 – Carlos Sainz / Laia Sanz
- Andretti United – #23 – Timmy Hansen / Catie Munnings
- Segi TV Chip Ganassi Racing – #99 – Kyle LeDuc / Sara Mark
- XITE ENERGY RACING powered by myenergi – #42 – Oliver Bennett / Christine GZ
- JBXE – #22 – Kevin Hansen / Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky
- Rosberg X Racing – #6 – Johan Kristoffersson / Molly Taylor
- Veloce Racing – #5 – Stéphane Sarrazin / Jamie Chadwick
- X44 – #44 – Sébastien Loeb / Cristina Gutiérrez
For every race, teams can decide out which driver goes first, and decisions are saved secret except the closing minute.
GridPlay
The GridPlay vote will originate at 0900 GMT (7PM AEST) on Wednesday 26 Might presumably presumably also fair and shut 30 minutes into Semi-Final 2 on Sunday 30 Might presumably presumably also fair giving followers the probability to vote for their current crew and impact the initiating line-up for the Final.
Teams that don’t accomplish the Final can present votes to their preferred competitors, and in Saudi Arabia this meant Andretti United had been in a position to select its initiating set of residing in the closing race, so every vote truly does count.
Why Senegal?
The world’s oceans are in crisis. Half of coral reefs and a third of mangroves and seagrasses like already been lost, leaving coastal communities prone to erosion, storm atomize and meals shortages. Fundamental fish shares are on the level of collapse, threatening no longer only meals security for the human population that is dependent on them however the entire meals chain. Plastics, oil spills and agrochemicals are destroying ocean environments and contaminating meals chains. Native weather alternate is inflicting the heating of our oceans, making them extra acidic and bleaching coral reefs, melting the ice at the poles and endangering the lifestyles which they enhance.
Above all, international warming causes oceans to warmth up, and in turn expand, which locations some islands and coastlines at risk of disappearing altogether. Sea level has been rising by around 30 millimetres every 10 years. Unsightly E chose Lac Rose in Senegal to highlight these issues.
Lac Rose itself is a vibrant crimson attributable to the Dunaliella Salina micro organism, which is attracted by the lake’s salt content. The micro organism make a crimson pigment in describe to soak up the daylight, thus giving the lake its contemporary color. Nonetheless, the water ranges like fallen dramatically in the closing forty years attributable to over-exploitation of salt mining and water pumping.
In addition, plastic pollution is another main issue affecting Senegal, with the mountain of single-utilize plastic washing up on the shores rising day-by-day and unsafe marine species and human effectively being. An estimated 32% of all plastic packaging extinct globally doesn’t procure recycled or disposed of effectively and a staggering 80% of plastic came upon in the ocean comes from this unmanaged demolish on land. If left unchecked, four billion tonnes of plastic pollution will enter our land and oceans by 2050 under a industrial-as-standard scenario.
Leaving a long-lasting clear Legacy
As with every of its locations Unsightly E is launching Legacy Programmes to toughen the fight against the local weather crisis and the local communities suffering attributable to the many issues it brings.
In Senegal, Unsightly E is supporting two tasks. For the first, the championship has teamed up with local NGO, Oceanium, which Unsightly E known in partnership with to.org, to plant one million mangrove trees in Senegal across 60 hectares with the intention of reforesting mangroves, offering education to local populations and making improvements to social cohesion.
For the second, the sequence is supporting the EcoZone Project, a living lab that addresses the Lac Rose community’s main wants whereas maintaining the environment by means of experiential learning, regenerative agriculture and a spherical economy. As section of this, the EcoBrique Issue modified into once launched which tasked the community to make bricks for construction from plastic demolish.
Unsightly E will visit these tasks in the lead as a lot as the Ocean X Prix continuing to toughen the foremost work performed by the local other folks.
When and Where to See
Shakedown and qualifications will likely be aired by means of Unsightly E’s authentic online web content – www.rude-e.com and social channels (@extremeelive on YouTube, Instagram, Fb, Twitter and Twitch).
The Finals will likely be shown in additional than 180 nations by 75 broadcasters including Fox Sports in the USA, ITV, Sky Sports, BBC and BT Sport in the UK, Teledeporte in Spain, Proseiben MAXX in Germany, Mediaset in Italy in addition to Eurosport across most European Markets and SuperSport in Africa.
In Australia, you’ll have to tune into Foxtel channel FOX 507 to explore the closing, whereas the Qualifying spherical and semis will likely be broadcast on the Unsightly online web content and social channels. A beefy list of broadcasters outlining what’s going to likely be aired and when it’s readily accessible will likely be came upon here.
Sat 29th Might presumably presumably also fair (AEST +10)
- 10: 00M – 10: 30AM – Shakedown
Sunday 30th Might presumably presumably also fair (AEST +10)
- 4: 30AM – 6: 30AM – Qualifying Spherical 1
- 9: 00AM – 11: 30AM – Qualifying Spherical 2
Monday 31st Might presumably presumably also fair (AEST +10)
- 3: 00AM – 4: 30AM – Semi Final broadcast
- 7: 00AM – 9: 00AM – Final broadcast
To learn extra about Unsightly E, visit – www.Unsightly-E.com
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The 2nd Unsightly E race is on this weekend. See the all-electrical Ocean X Prix
