Motor racing: Rosberg's team are Extreme E's first race winners

REUTERS: Nico Rosberg's team won the first race of the new electric Extreme E off-road series in Saudi Arabia on Sunday while Lewis Hamilton's X44 outfit hit problems and finished third in a cloud of dust.

Hamilton's team of France's nine times world rally champion Sebastien Loeb and Spaniard Cristina Gutierrez had been fastest in Saturday's qualifying but suffered steering problems. Jenson Button, the 2009 Formula One champion, finished sixth after his JBXE team failed to make the final while triple Dakar winner Carlos Sainz was fourth.Time trials had started on Saturday, around a sandy and rock-strewn track that also featured a plunging drop amid the dunes.

The pair had been fastest also in the semi-final when the identical ODYSSEY 21 cars went wheel to wheel for the first time.

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