Catie Munnings and Timmy Hansen went from Extreme E teammates to Extreme H boss and employee, and can soon add cross-country rally driver and navigator to that chain. On Tuesday, Munnings announced the pair will enter the Baja Portalegre 500 with her driving an Oryx T3 for ASM Motorsport and Hansen as her roadbook reader.

“Has Timmy ever codriven? No. Has he done a rally? No. We’ve always gone big, what could go wrong?” Munnings remarked.

“We’ve talked about adventuring into proper off-road for years, and what better way to do it than two drivers in one car, with no navigation experience, straight in at the deep end?”

The two were teammates at Andretti XE throughout the entire existence of the series, scoring a win at the 2021 Arctic X Prix en route to a third-place points finish. Andretti did not join the transition to Extreme H, though Hansen decided to get the gang back together under his family operation Hansen Motorsport.

Hansen couldn’t drive due to his E1 Series obligations, so he brought in Andreas Bakkerud to team up with Munnings while Hansen served as team principal. Munnings and Bakkerud won the last XE Grand Final, then finished fifth in the inaugural Extreme H World Cup.

While Hansen is new to cross-country rally, Munnings ran the 2021 and 2022 Baja Aragóns; she finished fifth in T3 in the former and seventh in T4 at the latter. Hansen and his brother Kevin have both expressed interest in the discipline, but opportunities to get in are hard to come by with limited funding and a lack of proper pipeline. Incidentally, Kevin tested an Apache APH-03 in September.

Timmy finished fifth in the 2025 FIA World Rallycross standings, his and Kevin’s season shortened by a lack of sponsorship.

The Baja Portalegre 500 is on October 23–25. Hansen quipped, “What could go wrong?”

Featured image credit: Jordan Gullick