Karel Sabbe and Polestar

Karel announced this partnership with Polestar the Swedish electric carmaker on Instagram:

Last week I ran 76km to Brussels to pick up my Polestar 4 – excited for this partnership and curious to see where this car will take me!

Another one of my predictions for the year that’s already been fulfilled:

We will see a real, big time non-endemic brands enter our sport. Either joining as UTMB partner and/or as sponsors for one of the big athletes in our sport.

I guess Polestar is not that huge of a deal. We’ve had Dacia at UTMB and in the past several European athletes have had car sponsorships: Kilian and Mercedes-Benz (I believe it was through a local/regional dealership) and with Ida Sophie Hegemann and Volkswagen. My bet is that there’s actually very little cash being handed over, just a car to drive for a season. But in any case. I need to up my prediction game if I want to make predictions that last the whole year.