Nine-time rally champion Loeb signs for Hamilton's Extreme E team
Lewis Hamilton on Friday revealed he had signed Sebastien Loeb for his Extreme E team.
LONDON (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton on Friday revealed he had signed nine-time world rally champion Sebastien Loeb for his Extreme E team, a motorsport series aimed at raising the profile of global environmental issues.
Also joining the seven-time Formula One world champion s team is Spain s Cristina Gutierrez, who in 2017 became the first woman to finish the Dakar Rally.
Loeb and Gutierrez will race for the X44 team in the inaugural Extreme E season which begins in 2021.
"I m delighted to welcome Sebastien and Cristina to X44," said Hamilton.
"They are both incredible drivers and I m looking forward to seeing what they re going to do out there at each race.
"Cristina is an upcoming talent with a great future ahead of her, and Sebastien is a driver I have admired for so many years so I m so proud and excited to have them on board."
The championship, which features electric off-road SUV vehicles, will start in March.
It will be raced in five remote locations deemed to be already damaged or severely under threat of climate change from a range of issues including melting ice caps, deforestation and rising sea levels.
The five sites chosen include races in the Amazon region of Brazil and in the Arctic in Greenland.
