Sergio Perez Entering E1 team in Inaugural UIM E1 World Championship Season

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E1 has today announced that Sergio Perez (“Checo”) will enter a team in the UIM E1 World Championship, which will race under the banner of Team Mexico in the inaugural season of the world’s first all-electric raceboat championship.

Checo’s new team will represent the colours of his home nation, with Team Mexico’s pilots competing in electric RaceBird boats carrying the Mexican flag. Team Mexico fills one of a maximum 12 spots on the starting grid for the first season of the UIM E1 World Championship, scheduled to get underway next year in 2023. One of E1’s co-founders is electric mobility pioneer Alejandro Agag, who was former team principal and owner of the Barwa Addax team in GP2, who Perez raced for and finished as runner-up in the 2010 season of the GP2 Series.

The teams and pilots looking to race in the UIM E1 World Championship will put their skills to the test behind the wheel of the futuristic RaceBird vessel. The 100 per cent electric-powered raceboat uses hydrofoil technology, which lifts the boat above the surface of the water. The first season of the UIM E1 World Championship is set to take place in 2023, with more teams and the provisional calendar to be revealed in due course.