Swiss-based meals firm SUN AG will subject an Excessive E programme for the 2024 season dubbed SUN Minimeal Crew. Timo Scheider and Klara Andersson will function drivers.
The Minimeal is SUN AG’s characteristic product, consisting of pocket-sized snacks that present 100 kcal of power apiece. They’re plant-based foodstuffs drawing from sources like sunflowers, poppy speeds, and kale and mushroom powder. The corporate boasts that an individual might eat eight Minimeals to cowl the every day requirement of important vitamins, whereas two Minimeals can present a single sitting’s value of meals, making it ideally suited for these seeking to drop some weight or on the lookout for simpler wholesome consuming alternate options.
“Particularly in racing, a performance-supporting food regimen is extraordinarily essential. SUN Minimeal is the only and most secure technique to eat healthily and sustainably,” stated SUN CEO Wolfgang Grabher. “The particular factor about it’s that it incorporates all of the pure vitamins in the correct quantity and with a low calorie content material. The meal is particularly appreciated by individuals who have little time, journey loads and don’t wish to miss out on a nutritious diet.
“Our involvement in Excessive E will assist us to globally current our innovation for wholesome diet and our mission to scale back dietary sources by 90 p.c and attain as much as 2.1 billion households.”
Scheider lately spent the 2023 season with Carl Cox Motorsport, then additionally of their maiden season, scoring a podium on the first Hydro X Prix alongside Christine GZ. He and Lia Block completed the 12 months for the workforce, putting them ninth within the championship. He has been concerned with the sequence since 2021 as a Championship Driver earlier than competing for XITE Energy Racing the next 12 months, bagging a runner-up end in his racing début.
Andersson was additionally a Championship Driver earlier than hooking with ABT CUPRA XE for the ultimate two rounds in 2022, ending third and successful. This translated into running the full calendar for the workforce in 2023, the place she and a mixture of Nasser Al-Attiyah, Sébastien Loeb, and Adrien Tambay completed sixth within the standings with two podiums. ABT CUPRA departed the series at season’s finish.
Each Scheider and Andersson additionally compete within the FIA World Rallycross Championship. Scheider completed fourth within the 2023 RX1e standings with a win in South Africa and was voted Driver of the Year by fans, whereas Andersson positioned seventh in factors. The earlier 12 months, Andersson turned the primary lady to attain a World RX podium.
“Regardless of being a brand new workforce within the championship, SUN Minimeal Crew arrives with loads of expertise and race-winning pedigree in its line-up, so we hope they are going to be preventing up on the sharp finish of the sphere when the brand new season begins subsequent month in Saudi Arabia,” stated sequence boss Alejandro Agag. “Everybody pulling in the identical route is so essential in Excessive E, and SUN AG is undoubtedly an organisation which is environmentally aware and targeted on sustainability, sharing the core values of our championship. I sit up for seeing how Timo and Klara fare behind the wheel and SUN Minimeal Crew battling for podiums and victories in 2024, as we depend right down to our fourth Excessive E season.”
