Extreme E winner to be kept secret for months
The winner of each Extreme E series will not be known until months after the championship has finished thanks to its ‘docu-sport’ broadcast format, according to series boss Alejandro Agag.

The electric off-road SUV racing series is set to begin its first season in January 2021 and will run through to the following August.
The winning driver and team will be set from the best results of the five-round championship, with races set to take place on ground damaged by climate change and human intervention in the Artic, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas, the Amazon rainforest and islands in the Indian Ocean.
But the each round will not be broadcast live and will instead by shown in single episode form over a five-week period.
The non-live ‘docu-sport’ broadcast premise would mean the XE winners will not be revealed until the episodes covering each event has subsequently screened in the Autumn of 2021.
“We’ll start in January and finish in August, edit, and we want to release this in the off-season of Formula E,” said Agag.
“So probably a release between October and November [2021] is when we will release one episode per week.
“[With] the episodes, 10 are going to show the finals and who wins. We have to keep [that] secret, everyone signs an NDA – but then through the year, almost every day we’re going to be putting content out online.
“So it’s going to be a lot of content – we’re going to do a lot of teasing.
“There is going to be a lot of the documentary part of it. The science part of it, we’re going to have scientists on the boat.
Read Also:
“We’re going to keep that flowing and some of the racing, especially the groups, we’re going to put out [as an online teaser] and then the finals we’re going to keep for the episodes.
“People get hooked to Game of Thrones and it's every year, every year and a half or two years, so we would like to kind of become that.
“We call it a docu-sport – this halfway between a documentary and a sport.”
The docu-sport’ premise would mean traditional sports broadcasters and media companies would not be able to cover XE live.
When asked how, for example, Motorsport.com would cover XE, Agag said: “You’re probably not going to be able to cover it live – it’s going to be difficult.
“We have to figure out some way, because we don’t want to give up the result until we release the episode.
“At the same time, we want motorsport fans to be involved and in it for the technology. So, that’s actually a really good question I have no answer for at this point.”

Previous article
New Extreme E series presented to nine manufacturers
Next article
Spark named as Extreme E base chassis provider

About this article
Series | Extreme E |
Author | Alex Kalinauckas |
Extreme E winner to be kept secret for months
Trending
Desert X-Prix: Podium Ceremony
Desert X-Prix: Complete Race highlights
Desert X-Prix: Semi-Final Race Start
Desert X-Prix: Shoot Out Crash
How Extreme E exceeded expectations to pass its first major test
The racing may have lacked the explosive conclusion to Formula E's first race in 2014 and was not without its hiccups. But Extreme E's leap into the unknown appears to have paid off, delivering a spectacle quite unlike anything else
Extreme E: The team-by-team guide
The world’s newest motorsport discipline is set to go racing for the first time this weekend. Extreme E’s innovations and plans have raised some eyebrows, but it also provides an exciting list of competitors and teams for the inaugural campaign
How Extreme E’s charging solution could transform motorsport
The new off-road SUV series aims to go boldly into the unknown on several fronts, but perhaps its most significant measure will involve the energy source powering its fleet of cars
How XE's star power puts Formula E under pressure
With the addition of Jenson Button's own team to join the involvement of fellow Formula 1 champions Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in Extreme E's ranks, the new electric SUV series is brimming with star power to enable it to deliver on its promise
Driving the electric beast behind XE’s off-road eco-crusade
In October, Motorsport.com headed to the South of France to sample the Odyssey 21 - the titanic 550bhp machine underpinning Alejandro Agag's latest electric venture. But for such a big beast, it's a nimble machine that should provide spectacular entertainment…
Why a fearsome ‘electric alliance’ will have lasting significance
OPINION: Formula E has invested in Extreme E to create a formal allegiance between the two most influential electric motorsport series. Allaying fears of financial uncertainty, together they will shape the future of battery-powered motorsport competition…
Why latest Hamilton-Rosberg battle won’t have the same edge
Even four years after it ended, the rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg has yet to be topped for drama and intrigue by anything F1 has seen since. But the next iteration commencing in 2021 will played out on much different terms...
How the new electric series with planet-changing aims will work
The new off-road electric race series from the people who brought you Formula E has no less an aim than saving the world’s most at-risk habitats. Here’s who things are set to get underway in 2021