""It's called E1. If you happened to be in Jeddah in January or Lagos last month, you may have seen the brightly colored boats - called RaceBirds - slicing through open water at almost 60 mph. "When you step in these boats, you feel like you're in a spaceship," Dani Clos, a pilot for DJ Steve Aoki's team and a former F1 test driver, said during a recent press event. The inaugural season launched in 2024.""
""First of all, we are a world championship. We need to be on every continent, so at least one race per continent," Basso told reporters during the press event held at Roc Nation's headquarters in New York City. "Asia is missing at the moment and South America as well, but we have conversations and are pretty advanced in both areas.""
E1 is an electric powerboat racing series featuring RaceBird boats that reach nearly 60 mph and deliver immersive, spaceship-like experiences for pilots. The inaugural season launched in 2024 and the second season concludes in Miami, with plans to expand to at least one race per continent. Cofounder Rodi Basso aims to increase teams from nine to twelve and races from seven to fifteen, and Team Monaco is set to join in 2026. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund partnered to create Electric 360 alongside Formula E and Extreme E, and Alejandro Agag helped found all three championships.
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