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Ekstrom partners with Cupra to compete in ETCR with his own team

Ekstrom partners with Cupra to compete in ETCR with his own team

EKS is the three-letter code with which Ekstrom competed in the DTM, a championship he won in 2004 and 2007 and gives its name to the young but successful team of the Swedish driver.

Cupra raced in 2021 in the first edition of the ETCR, the 100% electric touring car championship, with the aim of building a winning car in its clear commitment to the electric competition. This goal was achieved thanks to winning the two titles at stake: the constructors’ title and also the drivers’ title with Mattias Ekstrom in their Cupra e-Racer.

For the new season, Cupra has decided to end its collaboration with Zengo Motorsport, the team with which it officially competed in the championship in 2021, to formalize a new agreement with EKS.

EKS is a team with solid experience in the world of rallycross, where they have been competing since 2014 as an official Audi team and with which the Swedish driver was crowned as world champion in 2016, just three years after launching the project in a small…

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