The electric stats from a rollercoaster Monaco E-Prix weekend
- Vyas Ponnuri
- May 21
- 6 min read
Formula E’s Monaco E-Prix delivered two new winners for Season 12, strengthening the championship battle as the season crossed its halfway point. With one team breaking a win duck and rookies scoring podiums, Formula E’s annual weekend in the Principality delivered a blockbuster event.
Round 9 on Saturday marked the 10th running of the Monaco E-Prix, while the double-header also marked five years since Formula E first utilised the full Monaco Street Circuit layout for its races.
With plenty to remember from Formula E’s latest race weekend, DIVEBOMB looks back at some of the biggest stats from the two days of racing in Monaco.
Overtake central in Monaco
Overtaking has been a prime talking point at the Monaco E-Prix, and the latest edition of Formula E’s Monaco E-Prix proved just how competitive the championship gets.
According to Formula E’s statistics, a total of 382 overtakes were recorded over the course of the race weekend.
A total of 115 passes were made during the Pit Boost race on Saturday, with drivers having only one attack mode of six minutes to utilise to their advantage, alongside the mandatory pit stop.
However, the bulk of overtaking came on Sunday’s race, when drivers utilised their two bouts of attack mode to make a total of 267 passes during the 28-lap race.
While Round 9 on Saturday saw only pole-sitter Dan Ticktum, race winner Nyck de Vries and Jaguar’s António Félix da Costa lead the race, the Sunday race saw many drivers heading the field.
Ticktum led away from pole before Edoardo Mortara led the way on Lap 2. He would later relinquish the lead to Nico Müller’s Porsche in attack mode, before Mitch Evans wrested the race lead on Lap 11.
The Mahindra man would retake the lead on Lap 16, before da Costa utilised his attack mode to take the race lead on Lap 20. While Mortara would take back the lead the following lap, race winner Oliver Rowland would finally climb up into the race lead on Lap 23, maintaining it until the finish line.
A total of eight lead changes took place during Round 10 on Sunday, with 13 lead changes across the race weekend, one fewer than the previous double header in 2025.
Rookies on the rostrum, and podium ducks continue
This year’s Monaco E-Prix double header saw not one, but two rookies take to the podium. Cupra Kiro’s Pepe Martí was promoted to third after teammate Ticktum suffered a 33-second time penalty for his incident with da Costa late in the race.
During Round 10 on Sunday, a penalty for Mortara’s Mahindra elevated Andretti’s Felipe Drugovich to second, giving the Brazilian his first podium of the season and in his Formula E career.
Both drivers were part of a historic moment for the championship. Martí became the first Spanish driver to stand on a Formula E podium, while Drugovich became only the second Andretti teammate to Dennis to do so, after Norman Nato in Season 10.
Additionally, this marks the first time two rookies have stood on a Formula E podium since Season 7 in 2021. Back then, four full-season drivers secured their first podium finishes: Nick Cassidy for Envision Racing; Dennis and Nato, both winning races for BMW and Venturi, respectively; and Audi’s René Rast at the Puebla E-Prix.
On the topic of podiums, Porsche’s podium drought continues for another year running, with the German team yet to secure a podium in the Principality. Round 10 winner Rowland, though, has secured six podiums in Season 12, more than any other driver this season. In fact, all his points have come from podium finishes this season.
Penalties galore at the Monaco E-Prix
During both Monaco E-Prix races, a total of 17 time penalties were given to drivers, with the harshest of them being the penalty to Ticktum in Round 9, a drive-through penalty converted into a time penalty as it was handed out during the final two laps of the race.
Müller was the only driver to receive two penalties in the same round, with a total of eight drivers receiving penalties during the race.
DS Penske’s Maximilian Günther and Taylor Barnard accumulated two time penalties each for their respective incidents during Round 10, which were eventually converted into five and 10 place grid drops for the Sanya E-Prix in June.
Round 9 podium sitter Martí was also among the drivers to be penalised. A full list of drivers penalised during the Monaco E-Prix races is available on this link.
Win droughts broken for team and driver
While several drivers received penalties and rued lost opportunities in Round 9, another team and driver celebrated victory after several years of progress.
Mahindra Racing and Nyck de Vries both livened their trophy cabinets with a race victory in Monaco. As for de Vries, he managed to triple his points tally for Season 12, accumulating 29 of his 43 points during the two races of the weekend.
This was the Dutchman’s first race victory since the 2022 Berlin E-Prix, back when he was racing for Mercedes EQ. de Vries left Formula E for a seat with AlphaTauri (now Racing Bulls) in Formula One the following year, before returning to the championship after an ill-fated 10-race stint with the team.
As for Mahindra, this was their first race victory since Alex Lynn’s triumph at the 2021 London E-Prix. This victory signalled their adaptability and the strength of their package in Season 12, coming after years of searching for consistency and the podium.
While the Indian national anthem played in Monaco for the second year running, it was a moment to reflect for Mahindra, to celebrate and soak in the moment.
Additionally, the Indian manufacturer’s five-year gap between race victories is the longest of any current constructor in the field.
The only other Formula E entries to hold longer gaps between victories are Cupra Kiro, with Ticktum’s Jakarta E-Prix victory in 2025 coming 11 years after Nelson Piquet Jr’s victory for the team. Back in Season 1, the team had competed as China Racing, with the Brazilian going on to win the title too.
Similarly, the DS Penske entry too holds an eight-year gap between victories. Jean-Éric Vergne’s Hyderabad E-Prix victory came seven years after Jérôme d'Ambrosio’s Mexico E-Prix victory in Season 2, back when the entry ran as Dragon Racing.
Monaco’s Gen3 pole curse continues
Ticktum became the first driver to take both poles in a Monaco E-Prix weekend, with his margin of 0.676 seconds to da Costa in Round 10’s final being the largest pole margin of the season.
However, despite securing both poles across the weekend, the Cupra Kiro man could not convert either into a race victory, suffering penalties and failing to score in both races.
This continues another major winless streak in Formula E, with the pole-sitter never being able to convert pole into victory in the Gen3 era. Jake Hughes and Pascal Wehrlein started on pole in 2023 and 2024, but couldn’t secure victory in the only race of the weekend.
During the first Monaco double header in 2025, Barnard and Rowland secured poles, but fell down the order in dry and wet races, respectively. Ticktum becomes the latest driver to feature in this segment.
A changing championship picture for Jaguar
With Evans finishing second and fourth during the race weekend, he took over the lead of the standings in Season 12, by 19 points from reigning champion Rowland. This was the first time the Jaguar man led the championship since the São Paulo E-Prix in December 2024.
Jaguar’s haul of 45 points from the Monaco E-Prix weekend ensured they grabbed the lead of the championship from closest rivals Porsche, marking the first time the team led the constructors’ standings since the 2024 London E-Prix, when they won the title for the first time.
The only blemish in this weekend? This was the first time Jaguar and its customers left the Monaco E-Prix without a win in the Gen3 era. Cassidy had won the race for Envision Racing in 2023, while Evans took victory for the works Jaguar team in 2024, while Buemi took victory in a wet race in 2025 for Envision Racing.
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