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Formula One World Champion Louis Hamilton has announced that he will have a team in the next year’s inaugural all-electric off-road racing Extreme E series next year.
Extreme E Formula is a series established by the same team behind E Formula E, with a worldwide race to promote electrification, stability and equality.
The first season will be staged in five remote places which have already been damaged or affected by climate issues including climate and Amazon, raising awareness about climate change.
35 -year -old Hamilton called his team an opportunity to do “exciting new project” and said that the series appealed to him due to his “environmental meditation”.
He said in a statement, “Each of us has the power to create a difference, and it means to me so much that I can use my love with my love for my planet, to have a positive impact,” he said in a statement.
“I am eager for the team participating in this new series and I think it is incredible that we can do this by raising awareness about the climate crisis.”
The six -time World Champion team, X44, is nominated in terms of their F1 racing number and will enter season one of the extreme e championship. The first X is scheduled to be held in the beginning of Race 2021.
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Hamilton has long been a lawyer for a greenery world. Last year, in a series of messages posted on his Instagram account, he called the world “mess” and wrote that he felt that “leave everything” before encouraging everyone to be vegetarian.
Extreme E -Oxford and Cambridge universities will work with scientific experts, which to raise awareness on specific issues, such as rising carbon emissions, ice cap melting, deforestation, desert, drought, plastic pollution and increasing sea levels.
Each race will include two lap at a distance of about 16 kilometers (10 mi) with two drivers – a man and a woman – completing a lap app.
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Instead of following the action on TV, with fans, to reduce the impact on the environment, the race for the audience will not open.
The command center for the championship chain will ride on RMS St. Helena, a ship that is undergoing a multi -million euro change to reduce emissions and turn it into the championship operating hub.
The X44 is the seventh team to sign up, which is joining Chip Ganasi Racing, Andreti Autosport, ABT, HWA, Teketta, QV Technologies, and partner British -owned dress, Velos racing.
