SUN Minimeal Staff will be part of Excessive E‘s transition to Excessive H in 2025, retaining their driver lineup of Klara Andersson and Timo Scheider.
“We’re excited to be a part of the primary hydrogen-powered motorsport championship and imagine in the way forward for hydrogen,” mentioned SUN AG CEO Wolfgang Grabher.
Owned by Swiss meals firm SUN AG, the staff is new for the 2024 XE season; the Minimeal is a plant-based snack. Andersson joined the programme after ending sixth within the 2023 standings with ABT CUPRA XE, who left the sequence on the finish of the yr, whereas Scheider was with Carl Cox Motorsport the place the brand new staff positioned ninth.
In February’s season-opening Desert X Prix, the duo completed eighth and final within the staff’s début race day after retiring from the Redemption Race with a sequence of mechanical issues. Race 2 ended with a 3rd within the Redemption Race for a seventh-place general.
Getting into the second spherical of the season at Scotland in July, the staff is tied with JBXE for seventh in factors.
Concurrent with Excessive E, Andersson is getting into her third season within the FIA World Rallycross Championship; she positioned seventh in 2023. Scheider, fourth within the 2023 World RX factors with a win and Driver of the Yr honours, received his class on the Nürburgring 24 Hours in early June.
Grabher represented SUN on the Excessive H reveal on Thursday. All eight present XE groups have been in attendance, although SUN is presently the one one with a confirmed lineup for 2025. CCM shut down for the 2024 season to concentrate on subsequent yr, whereas different shuttered groups like Chip Ganassi Racing haven’t dominated out returning if in a position.
