ACCIONA Sainz survives for Island X Prix 2 Saturday win

ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team had a perfect Saturday as Mattias Ekström and Laia Sanz won both heat races and the Grand Final, but the latter was not exactly the cleanest affair.

Nearly everyone in the Grand Final ended the race with some sort of damage, with ACCIONA | Sainz being the exception as they cruised to the win. Carl Cox Motorsport‘s Timo Scheider had the early advantage entering the first corner only for Ekström to overtake him along the outside line and pull away. CCM would eventually retire.

Behind him and Sanz, ABT CUPRA XE stole second from Veloce Racing after the latter struggled with correcting broken windshield wipers in the switch bay. Although a dry day, the second Island X Prix course featured water crossings not present for the first in July, making wipers an imperative feature. Rosberg X Racing, who has dominated in Sardinia since its introduction including sweeping the July rounds, briefly stopped with a mechanical issue but crawled to the finish.

Andretti XE won the Redemption Race to bounce back from missing the second round of qualifying due to a crash in the first heat. On the other hand, McLaren XE‘s difficult weekend continued after Tamara Molinaro flipped to start the Redemption Race; Molinaro was driving in relief for Emma Gilmour, who fractured her rib in a practice crash on Friday.

Molinaro was not injured in her crash.

Grand Final results

Finish	Number	Team	Total Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	55	ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team	9:47.173	Mattias Ekström	Laia Sanz
2	125	ABT CUPRA XE	10:29.939	Sébastien Loeb	Klara Andersson
3	5	Veloce Racing	10:53.149*	Kevin Hansen	Molly Taylor
4	6	Rosberg X Racing	13:29.1298	Johan Kristoffersson	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky
5	8	Carl Cox Motorsport	DNF	Timo Scheider	Lia Block

* – Received a penalty

Redemption Race results

Finish	Number	Team	Total Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	23	Andretti ALTAWKILAT Extreme E	10:35.722	Timmy Hansen	Catie Munnings
2	22	JBXE	10:43.214	Andreas Bakkerud	Hedda Hosås
3	99	GMC Hummer EV Chip Ganassi Racing	10:47.720	RJ Anderson	Amanda Sorensen
4	44	X44 Vida Carbon Racing	DNF	Fraser McConnell	Cristina Gutiérrez
5	58	NEOM McLaren XE	DNF	Tamara Molinaro	Tanner Foust

Qualifying results

Round #1

Heat #1

Finish	Number	Team	Total Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	55	ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team	9:50.643	Mattias Ekström	Laia Sanz
2	8	Carl Cox Motorsport	9:52.578	Timo Scheider	Lia Block
3	99	GMC Hummer EV Chip Ganassi Racing	9:56.670	RJ Anderson	Amanda Sorensen
4	22	JBXE	9:59.519	Hedda Hosås	Andreas Bakkerud
5	58	NEOM McLaren XE	10:30.303	Tamara Molinaro	Tanner Foust

Heat #2

Finish	Number	Team	Total Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	125	ABT CUPRA XE	10:02.949	Sébastien Loeb	Klara Andersson
2	5	Veloce Racing	10:06.263	Kevin Hansen	Molly Taylor
3	6	Rosberg X Racing	10:13.782	Johan Kristoffersson	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky
4	44	X44 Vida Carbon Racing	DNF	Fraser McConnell	Cristina Gutiérrez
5	23	Andretti ALTAWKILAT Extreme E	DNF	Timmy Hansen	Catie Munnings

Round #2

Heat #1

Finish	Number	Team	Total Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	55	ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team	9:37.429	Laia Sanz	Mattias Ekström
2	5	Veloce Racing	9:41.834	Molly Taylor	Kevin Hansen
3	44	X44 Vida Carbon Racing	9:49.383*	Cristina Gutiérrez	Fraser McConnell
4	99	GMC Hummer EV Chip Ganassi Racing	10:06.702	Amanda Sorensen	RJ Anderson
5	58	NEOM McLaren XE	DNF	Tanner Foust	Tamara Molinaro

Heat #2

Finish	Number	Team	Total Time	Driver #1	Driver #2
1	6	Rosberg X Racing	9:55.156	Johan Kristoffersson	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky
2	125	ABT CUPRA XE	10:09.762	Klara Andersson	Sébastien Loeb
3	8	Carl Cox Motorsport	10:25.965*	Lia Block	Timo Scheider
4	22	JBXE	DNF	Andreas Bakkerud	Hedda Hosås
5	23	Andretti ALTAWKILAT Extreme E	DNS	Catie Munnings	Timmy Hansen