2022 Desert X Prix: A matter of time before someone gets seriously injured
Greetings, friends of motor racing, in Saudi Arabia, more precisely near the planned city of Neom, the second season of Extreme E, the electric off-road racing series, began at the weekend. As usual, Sir Lewis Hamilton's Team X44 won the qualifying - in the race, the team of his ex-teammate Nico Rosberg came out on top (as almost always, too). Apart from all the criticism of the professionalism in the racing series - various misspelled names on the list of participants, calculation errors in determining time penalties etc. notwithstanding - I now have another big problem with Extreme E: the issue of safety. #DesertXPrix speed limit: 30 km/h Time penalty for speeding in Switch Zone: 1 sec per 1 km/h So, if you drive 57 km/h in the switch zone that's 17 seconds penalty! And the award for the most unprofessional racing series in the world goes once again to... @ExtremeELive #ExtremeE pic.twitter.com/6cqlqce7Zi — Tobias Wirtz (@tobiw_apex) February 19, 2022 Yes, Motorsport is ...