new X44 team in the new Extreme E electric off-road championship. The team's drivers, Sebastien Loeb and Cristina Gutierrez finished second in the championship in their electric Odyssey 21. The team is now competing in the 2022 championship. GT Racing In 2017 Bob Nevelle asked Prodrive to run the Nissan GT Academy Program in the 2017 British GT Championship with a 2017-spec Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 with Harry Tincknell, Gätean Paletou, Alex Buncombe and Aaditya Gayadeen been the registered drivers for the team. The team participated in four rounds with Paletou and Tincknell driving in the Pro-Am Cup while there Silver Cup Car entrant of Gayadeen and Buncombe participated in five rounds of the series. The team who was announced ineligible to score points in the series because of not participating in the first round. Formula One Starting in the 2002 season, Prodrive was awarded a five-year management contract to run British American Racing (BAR), with David Richards becoming team principal. BAR owners British American Tobacco and Prodrive had a prior relationship with BAT sponsoring Subaru's World Rally Championship team, operated by Prodrive. The team experienced modest results throughout their first two seasons before finishing second in the Constructors' Championship in 2004, with drivers Jenson Button and Takuma Sato. However, Prodrive's contract was terminated early, following their best season after Honda's purchase of BAR. On 28 April 2006, Prodrive were officially granted entry to F1 when the FIA announced the list of entrants to the 2008 Formula One World Championship. FIA president Max Mosley was impressed by Prodrive's bid, which beat off stiff competition from the likes of Carlin Motorsport, the Jean Alesi-led McLaren-supported Direxiv outfit, BAR co-founder Craig Pollock, former Minardi owner Paul Stoddart and ex-Jordan Grand Prix team principal, Eddie Jordan. He revealed that Prodrive have found the finances to support their bid, adding: "Prodrive has the best combination of financial backing, technical capability and motorsport experience. Also, Prodrive's chief executive, David Richards, has experience as a Formula One team principal". Following a legal challenge by Williams to Prodrive's proposed use of a customer car David Richards announced on 23 November 2007 that Prodrive would not be entering Formula One for the 2008 season. Richards made it clear that it was still the intention of Prodrive to enter Formula One. However, following further clarifications of the rules surrounding the use of customer cars, and the resulting ban on