Extreme E is the new off-road series with electric cars that will be driven in inaccessible places around the world and which has attracted, to say the least, a star-filled starting field for the premiere season where each team consists of a man and a woman.
Big names
Here are names like Sébastien Loeb, nine-time rally world champion, Carlos Sainz, two-time rally world champion, Jamie Chadwick, first winner of the W Series formula car series, and Swedish stars Johan Kristoffersson, three-time rallycross world champion, and Mattias Ekström, champion in both DTM and rallyc.
As a team owner, there are also names like Formula 1 dominant Lewis Hamilton and also Nico Rosberg, former F1 world champion.
Jenson Button, world champion in Formula 1 in 2009, has also started his own team and will drive one of the cars in JBXE himself.
Ready for Button's stable
Until now, however, it has been unclear who will take the second place in the team.
But it will be Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky from Värmland, known among other things as the first female winner in STCC, who takes it.
The agreement became clear on Thursday.
- It feels fantastic fun.
I was the first to test drive the prototype of the car we will use in Extreme E and have been with it all the way since.
I thought it would be a reserve driver role for me but then this chance came up.
To be able to share a car with Jenson Button feels incredibly big, I am very happy, says Åhlin-Kottulinsky to SVT.
Extreme E's first historic competition will take place in Saudi Arabia on April 3-4