# 2022 Desert X-Prix

The 2022 Desert X-Prix was an Extreme E off-road race that was held on 19 and 20 February 2022 in the future planned city of Neom, Saudi Arabia. It was the first round of the electric off-road racing car series' second season, and also marked the second running of the event, albeit in a different location to 2021. The final was won by Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky and Johan Kristoffersson for reigning champions Rosberg X Racing, ahead of the Acciona | Sainz XE Team and Team X44.

## Classification
### Qualifying

Qualifying 2 draw :
| Heat 1 | Team X44 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Acciona | Sainz XE | Abt Cupra XE | Veloce Racing |
| Heat 2 | Rosberg X Racing | Andretti United XE | Xite Energy Racing | McLaren XE | JBXE |
| Pos. | Pos. | No. | Team | Drivers | Q1 | Q1 | Q1 | Q2 | Q2 | Q2 | Combined |
| Pos. | Pos. | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps | Time | CP | Laps | Time | CP | Combined |
| | 1 | 44 | Team X44 | Cristina Gutiérrez Sébastien Loeb | 2 | 9:10.515 | 9 | 2 | 9:00.620 | 10 | 19 |
| | 2 | 23 | Genesys Andretti United Extreme E | Catie Munnings Timmy Hansen | 2 | 9:14.695 | 8 | 2 | 9:10.693 | 10 | 18 |
| | 3 | 99 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Kyle LeDuc Sara Price | 2 | 9:15.842 | 7 | 2 | 9:20.200 | 8 | 15 |
| | 4 | 6 | Rosberg X Racing | Johan Kristoffersson Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky | 2 | 9:03.604 | 10 | 2 | 9:26.772 | 4 | 14 |
| | 5 | 42 | Xite Energy Racing | Tamara Molinaro Oliver Bennett | 2 | 9:17.403 | 6 | 2 | 9:24.396 | 8 | 14 |
| | 6 | 55 | Acciona | Sainz XE Team | Laia Sanz Carlos Sainz | 2 | 9:21.355 | 5 | 1 | 4:59.752 | 6 | 11 |
| | 7 | 22 | JBXE | Kevin Hansen Molly Taylor | 2 | 10:04.367 | 2 | 2 | 9:26.064 | 6 | 8 |
| | 8 | 58 | McLaren XE | Emma Gilmour Tanner Foust | 2 | 9:26.979 | 4 | 2 | 10:03.366 | 2 | 6 |
| | 9 | 125 | Abt Cupra XE | Jutta Kleinschmidt Nasser Al-Attiyah | 2 | 9:50.385 | 3 | 2 | 12:14.592 | 2 | 5 |
| | 10 | 5 | Veloce Racing | Lance Woolridge Christine GZ | 1 | 9:14.817 | 0 | 0 | No time | 0 | 0 |
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Key :
| Colour | Advance to |
| Black | Semi-Final 1 |
| Silver | Semi-Final 2 |
| Bronze | Crazy Race |
| Gold | Final |
Notes:
* Tie-breakers were determined by Super Sector times.
* ^1 – Abt Cupra XE were demoted one position and deducted two intermediate points for causing a collision in heat 1 of qualifying 2.

### Semi-final 1

| Pos. | Pos. | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps | Time | Points |
| | 1 | 44 | Team X44 | Cristina Gutiérrez Sébastien Loeb | 2 | 9:05.107 | |
| | 2 | 6 | Rosberg X Racing | Johan Kristoffersson Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky | 2 | +7.660 | |
| 3 | 3 | 42 | Xite Energy Racing | Tamara Molinaro Oliver Bennett | 2 | +17.590 | 8 |
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Notes:
* ^1 – Xite Energy Racing originally finished second, but later received a 10-second time penalty for taking down a waypoint flag.

### Semi-final 2

| Pos. | Pos. | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps | Time | Points |
| | 1 | 99 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Kyle LeDuc Sara Price | 2 | 9:12.337 | |
| | 2 | 55 | Acciona | Sainz XE Team | Laia Sanz Carlos Sainz | 2 | +6.850 | |
| 3 | 3 | 23 | Genesys Andretti United Extreme E | Catie Munnings Timmy Hansen | 1 | +1 lap | 6 |
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### Crazy Race

| Pos. | Pos. | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps | Time | Points |
| | 1 | 58 | McLaren XE | Emma Gilmour Tanner Foust | 2 | 9:14.250 | |
| 2 | 2 | 125 | Abt Cupra XE | Jutta Kleinschmidt Nasser Al-Attiyah | 2 | +2.642 | 4 |
| 3 | 3 | 22 | JBXE | Kevin Hansen Molly Taylor | 2 | +11.623 | 2 |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Veloce Racing | Lance Woolridge Hedda Hosås | 2 | +3:39.676 | 1 |
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Notes:
* Veloce's Christine GZ was replaced by Hedda Hosås after suffering an injury in qualifying.

### Final

| Pos. | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps | Time | Points |
| 1 | 6 | Rosberg X Racing | Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky Johan Kristoffersson | 2 | 27:08.453 | 25+5 |
| 2 | 55 | Acciona | Sainz XE Team | Carlos Sainz Laia Sanz | 2 | +2.483 | 18 |
| 3 | 44 | Team X44 | Sébastien Loeb Cristina Gutiérrez | 2 | +5.807 | 15 |
| 4 | 99 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Sara Price Kyle LeDuc | 2 | +25.202 | 12 |
| 5 | 58 | McLaren XE | Tanner Foust Emma Gilmour | 0 | +2 laps | 10 |
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Notes:
* The race was red-flagged at the end of lap 1 after a crash for McLaren's Tanner Foust. All four other teams took the restart, with the gaps maintained.
* ^1 – Team awarded 5 additional points for being fastest in the Super Sector.