{"id":211606,"date":"2025-10-14T01:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211606\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T01:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:57:09","slug":"emotional-molly-taylor-wins-inaugural-extreme-h-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211606\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Emotional\u2019 Molly Taylor wins inaugural Extreme H event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/XHWorldCup5.jpeg\" alt=\"\u2018Emotional\u2019 Molly Taylor wins inaugural Extreme H event\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMolly Taylor and teammate Kevin Hansen won the inaugural FIA Extreme H World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>After qualifying on pole position, Swedish teammate Kevin Hansen built a five-second lead in the Jameel Motorsport entry before handing the hydrogen-powered off-road racer over to Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor went on to win by seven seconds, ahead of the Timo Scheider\/Klara Andersson Carl Cox Motorsport entry.<\/p>\n<p>Team EVEN\u2019s Ole Christian Veiby and Hedda Hos\u00e5s took the final spot on the podium following a penalty for Team KMS duo Johan Kristoffersson and Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky.<\/p>\n<p>The win came just days after Taylor suffered a violent rollover in the final Extreme E event at Qiddiya City<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been such an emotional and intense week, and an incredible feeling to make history in this new era of motorsport,\u201d said Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo bring it home for Jameel Motorsport, the national entry representing Saudi Arabia, and to be part of something that showcases both performance and sustainability, is really special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hansen added: \u201cTo win the first ever FIA Extreme H World Cup is probably the biggest achievement in my career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels amazing. I never felt that much pressure before a race: standing on pole, for a Saudi team, for one race, winner takes it all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it felt so good to do a great start, great fist run, pull a good gap, five seconds, and Molly brought it home perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike its predecessor Extreme E, this year\u2019s Extreme H season features a one-off event in Saudi Arabia.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Molly Taylor and teammate Kevin Hansen won the inaugural FIA Extreme H World Cup. After qualifying on pole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,130076,806,805,803,804,7499,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-211606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-molly-taylor","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-slot4","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}