The Biggest Talking Points from the 2026 London E-Prix Weekend

It was a weekend of farewells in London as both Gen3 and the ExCeL Centre departed Formula E in a weekend where a double World Champion was crowned!

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Pascal Wehrlein Did It!

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For only the second time in history (and the first time as an official World Championship), Formula E has a 2-time World Champion as Pascal Wehrlein survived to take his second crown in three years! Saturday went perfectly for Pascal, with the German driver converting Pole into a Win to take a key 28 points, giving him the Championship lead heading into the final day! The points gap at the start of the Sunday was 5 points in Wehrlein’s favour, with a 3rd-place finish in Qualifying only giving him more security after his closest rival, Jake Dennis, could only manage P16! For most of the Sunday E-Prix, Pascal looked in complete control, running P5, with the only two drivers that could beat him to the Title being a lot further behind him! However, Jaguar TCS Racing would eventually start playing the team game, with Antonio Felix da Costa pulling out a rather robust defence to keep his former teammate behind, allowing his current teammate Mitch Evans to get up to P4! The biggest reason why Antonio was doing this is by pushing Pascal Wehrlein further and further down the order, Jaguar had a better chance of winning the Teams’ Championship! However, what this also did was bring Jake Dennis back into play, with Dennis even leading the “as it stands” standings by a single point with not long left to go! However, this was when the two Championship rivals came to blows, with Wehrlein putting Dennis into the wall as neither driver ended up scoring any points! However, with Evans unable to catch the leaders, Pascal Wehrlein had “successfully” survived all of the chaos to become a 2-time ABB FIA Formula E World Champion! There will be an awful lot of conversations going around about the driving standards yesterday, with Pascal already being pretty vocal about his thoughts on the whole situation! However, a Championship is won across a whole season, not just one Race, and I’d say that Wehrlein did just enough to win it (just)!

An Almost World Championship for Jake Dennis

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When you enter the final weekend of a season leading the Championship, to not leave the weekend as World Champion must be heartbreaking! That’s the situation that Jake Dennis finds himself in, with the Andretti driver’s Championship lead being overridden on Saturday, despite the fact that the Brit finished second! The real damage, however, came in Sunday Qualifying, with Jake failing to make the duels as he had to settle for 16th place on the starting grid! The entire strategy for Dennis during the final E-Prix of the year was to bank as much energy as possible for a late attack, a plan that looked to be perfect in the late stages once Antonio Felix da Costa started playing games with Pascal Wehrlein! Unfortunately for Dennis, he found himself in the exact wrong place at the exact wrong time, with Wehrlein forcing him into the wall as Dennis’ Andretti got completely destroyed! It was a gutting way to end what’s been a pretty remarkable season for Jake Dennis; despite his obvious talent, Andretti weren’t viewed as Title challengers heading into the season, so to only miss out on a second World Championship by 5 points is pretty good going! However, it does ultimately prove that his bad luck in Tokyo, despite scoring 2 Podiums that weekend, was what cost him the Season 12 crown!

A Mixed Weekend for Jaguar TCS Racing

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Heading into the final weekend of Season 12, Jaguar TCS Racing found themselves leading the Teams’ Championship by 14 points, whilst Mitch Evans was just two points behind in the fight for the Drivers’ Championship! On Saturday, Antonio Felix da Costa would bag good points for the team with a Podium finish (in P3), but disaster would strike for Mitch Evans, with a Full Course Yellow costing Mitch not only a potential win, but it demoted him all the way down to 8th! This meant that going into Sunday, Evans was 21 points off the Championship lead with just 29 points available, meaning he basically needed a miracle! In some ways, that kind of came in the form of both Pascal Wehrlein and Jake Dennis finishing outside of the points in Sunday’s E-Prix, mainly down to a controversial piece of driving from da Costa! Unfortunately for Mitch, he could only finish P4, meaning The Kiwi ended up 9 points off becoming World Champion! Another near miss for a driver who consistently loses out by small margins! However, on the flip side, Antonio’s driving did help Jaguar become Teams’ Champions for the second time in their history, so that’s a big positive! It’s also worth mentioning that this was Mitch Evans’ final weekend as a Jaguar TCS Racing driver, after being with the team for 10 years, and whilst he may have more wins than any other driver in Formula E history, the fact that Evans never managed to win a Drivers’ Title will always be his biggest talking point (sadly)!

The End for Lucas di Grassi

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If anyone has the right to be called “Mr. Formula E”, it’s Lucas di Grassi! Lucas di Grassi has been in Formula E since the very first Race back in 2014, which he won, by the way, and this weekend marked his final Races in the series; his 163rd and 164th to be exact! Now, the weekend as a whole didn’t go very well at all, with Lucas’ Lola Yamaha ABT shutting down in both Races! However, at the end of the day, this weekend was always going to be more about the legacy of the Brazilian, with di Grassi a stalwart in this series! Not only has Lucas won 14 E-Prix’s across 3 different generations of cars, he was the Champion of Season 3, whilst the work that di Grassi has done off track to help promote the series cannot be understated! Whilst the Gen3 Era has been tough for Lucas di Grassi, people shouldn’t forget just how crucial he’s been to Formula E’s success!

The Youngest Ever E-Prix Winner!

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Through all of the chaos that was the Championship finale, a lot of us completely missed Mahindra Racing blow a near nailed-on 1-2 finish! The driver who stopped that from happening was DS Penske’s Taylor Barnard, and in doing so, Barnard made history as the youngest Race  Winner in Formula E history! After an incredible breakthrough year with NEOM McLaren last season, the move to DS Penske hasn’t been easy, with DS ultimately finishing 9th in the Teams’ Championship (despite this win)! However, what we saw this weekend was Taylor Barnard reminding everyone that he still very much has the potential to be a future World Champion in the series, even if it may take longer than it first appeared! The fact that Barnard also broke the record at the last time of asking is brilliant! Also, it’s worth mentioning that this was DS’ final season in the series, and we should give them a little shoutout given the fact that they won multiple Titles back when they were partners with Techeetah!

Overall Race Results (Round 16)

1. Pascal Wehrlein (P)

2. Jake Dennis

3. Antonio Felix da Costa

4. Sebastien Buemi

5. Taylor Barnard

6. Dan Ticktum

7. Edoardo Mortara

8. Mitch Evans

9. Nick Cassidy

10. Oliver Rowland (FL)

11. Nico Muller

12. Maximilian Gunther

13. Nyck de Vries

14. Joel Eriksson

15. Norman Nato

16. Felipe Drugovich

17. Pepe Marti (DNF)

18. Jean-Eric Vergne (DNF)

19. Lucas di Grassi (DNF)

20. Zane Maloney (DNF)

Overall Race Results (Round 17)

1. Taylor Barnard

2. Nyck de Vries (P)

3. Edoardo Mortara

4. Mitch Evans

5. Sebastien Buemi

6. Nick Cassidy

7. Jean-Eric Vergne

8. Pepe Marti

9. Oliver Rowland (FL)

10. Norman Nato

11. Maximilian Gunther

12. Nico Muller

13. Felipe Drugovich

14. Pascal Wehrlein

15. Antonio Felix da Costa

16. Dan Ticktum

17. Zane Maloney

18. Jake Dennis

19. Joel Eriksson (DNF)

20. Lucas di Grassi (DNF)

Complete Season 12 Standings – Drivers’ Championship

1. Pascal Wehrlein: 169pts

2. Jake Dennis: 164pts

3. Mitch Evans: 160pts

4. Oliver Rowland: 137pts

5. Edoardo Mortara: 137pts

6. Antonio Felix da Costa: 128pts

7. Nyck de Vries: 115pts

8. Nick Cassidy: 114pts

9. Nico Muller: 102pts

10. Sebastien Buemi: 97pts

11. Taylor Barnard: 68pts

12. Jean-Eric Vergne: 68pts

13. Pepe Marti: 66pts

14. Felipe Drugovich: 65pts

15. Dan Ticktum: 62pts

16. Joel Eriksson: 55pts

17. Lucas di Grassi: 32pts

18. Maximilian Gunther: 23pts

19. Norman Nato: 20pts

20. Zane Maloney: 3pts

Complete Season 12 Standings – Teams’ Championship

1. Jaguar TCS Racing: 288pts

2. Porsche Formula E Team: 271pts

3. Mahindra Racing: 252pts

4. Andretti Formula E: 229pts

5. Citroen Racing: 182pts

6. Nissan Formula E Team: 157pts

7. Envision Racing: 152pts

8. Cupra Kiro: 128pts

9. DS Penske: 91pts

10. Lola Yamaha ABT: 35pts