After contesting the last two seasons with Tanner Foust and Emma Gilmour as its two drivers, McLaren revealed in December that the duo would depart the team after achieving a best finish of second - in the 2022 Energy X-Prix in Uruguay and in Scotland's Hydro X-Prix last season.
Ekstrom, who raced for the Acciona Sanz team last year as a replacement for Carlos Sainz Sr following his back injury sustained on the Dakar Rally and Gutierrez, the 2022 XE champion with Lewis Hamilton's X44 team, will form an all-new line-up as XE prepares to bow out in its current guise at the end of the season.
