Sara Price Talks Winning Sardinia E-Prix For Hummer EV, Chip Ganassi Racing
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When the Chip Ganassi Racing Hummer EV team won the Sardinia E-Prix, Sara Price became the team’s first-ever female race winner. The 29-year-old American reflected on the team’s maiden Extreme E victory in a recent interview with CGR’s internal media team, with Price saying the result in Italy “probably tops my list of career highlights.”
Sara Price
The CGR Extreme E squad showed flashes of speed throughout last year’s race season, but a mixture of bad luck and teething pains for the new team prevented the team from recording a noteworthy result. Price and her teammate Kyle LeDuc were finally able to convert their outright pace into a win in Sardinia last month – the victory moving the American team into second in the championship standings with just two races left in the 2022 season.
“It was about time! It felt like getting a win was inevitable, it was just a matter of when and where the pieces would fall into place,” Price said. “It feels incredible to get our first Extreme E win, but to be Chip Ganassi Racing’s first female driver to do so, I’m just honoured to be a part of the team, break barriers, and make Chip proud.”
“It’s a sense of relief to get the monkey off our back and focus on what we all know we can do,” she added. “We love racing, we love offroad, and we eat, breath, and live it, so this momentum just reaffirms we’re doing the right things.”
Kyle LeDuc
Price and LeDuc technically finished second on the road in Sardinia behind the Rosberg X Racing pairing of Johan Kristoffersson and Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky. The German team was later demoted to third place, however, with Kristofferson receiving a 30-second post-race penalty for making contact with Carlos Sainz of Accionca Sainz XE. Price acknowledged that it would have been nice to take her maiden Extreme E win in a more traditional fashion – but a victory is a victory.
“I wanted to just enjoy the moment, given it was our first podium at the time,” Price said. “When we later found out, it was emotional and an incredible feeling. Would I have liked to win without a team getting penalties? For sure, but in racing, anything can happen, and we set ourselves up to be there.”
Price, LeDuc and CGR are now looking ahead to the Copper E-Prix in Chile in late September, where a good result can help them close the 22-point gap to RXR.
“RXR has a pretty good points lead currently, and we sit in 2nd with two other teams close, so it will be a battle until the very end,” Price said. “We just have to do what we do best and that’s to let our instincts as seasoned offroad racers take over.”
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