The electric stats from Formula E’s intense, high-octane London E-Prix finale
- Vyas Ponnuri
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Formula E’s final race weekend of the Gen3 era lived up to its billing, with the final race at London’s ExCel Arena witnessing an intense fight for the crown. With the two Porsche and Jaguar teammates in supporting acts, a three-way fight would eventually end in Pascal Wehrlein winning his second Formula E title.
Elsewhere, Jaguar reprised their run to the constructors’ title from Season 10, emerging ahead of Porsche by 17 points at the end of Formula E’s Season 12.
Apart from the locales and the machinery, London also marked the final start for Lola’s Lucas di Grassi and Envision’s Sébastien Buemi, while Mitch Evans bid goodbye to Jaguar after 10 Formula E campaigns.
However, the London weekend also delivered some spectacular statistics, particularly for Mahindra, along their way to third in the constructors’ standings.
But let’s start with the obvious. Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein became only the second Formula E driver to win two titles, joining Jean-Éric Vergne, who won his respective titles in Seasons 4 and 5. Wehrlein won both his championships for Porsche, matching Vergne’s tally with the Techeetah outfit back in Seasons 4 and 5 (when DS joined Techeetah as a title sponsor).
The German driver also became the only driver in the Gen3 era to win the penultimate race of a Formula E season twice.
However, that record belongs to di Grassi, who won the penultimate races in Season 3 at Montreal, Season 4 in New York City, and Season 7 at Berlin. Buemi has also done so in the past, back in the inaugural campaign in 2014-15, and later in Season 5 in 2019.
The Porsche man took the lead of the championship after Round 16 from Jake Dennis, bringing the number of lead changes to nine in the drivers’ standings, another Formula E record.
His tally of 169 points from 17 rounds averages out at 9.94 points per race, the second lowest for a champion in a completed Formula E season. Nyck de Vries’ tally of 6.6 points per race in Season 7 still stands as the lowest, as he scored 99 points from 15 races.
His four poles (including São Paulo when he scored pole but did not start at the front) in a title-winning season also mark another Formula E record, tying Vergne’s tally from his victorious Season 4 in 2017-18.
Wehrlein won the title by only five points from Dennis, marking the closest margin of championship victory in Formula E’s Gen3 era. Four of Formula E’s 12 seasons have been won by a margin of nine points or less, with Nelson Piquet Jr.’s one-point victory in Formula E’s maiden season remaining the lowest winning margin in any completed season.
Season 12 also marked the second time the top three in the standings were separated by single-digit margins at the end of the season. Season 7 in 2021 saw only eight points separating champion Nyck de Vries and third-placed Jake Dennis, in one of Formula E’s closest campaigns.
Porsche and Mahindra secured front row lockouts in London, joining Andretti as the only other teams to have done so in Season 12. With three teams locking out the front row in a single season, it is also a record for a single Formula E campaign.
Additionally, the season finale in London marked the first instance of teams locking out the front row in two separate qualifying sessions of a double-header. Teams have done so with one race of a double-header in the past, as ABT Cupra did in Berlin in 2023, and Jaguar in Rome later that season.
Porsche also locked out the front row for the second time in their career, the only other instance being when Wehrlein and António Félix da Costa did so in Mexico City in 2025.
For Mahindra Racing, though, it was their first front row lockout ever in Formula E, with de Vries becoming the sixth driver to take pole for the Indian manufacturer in the championship.
Mahindra also left several statistics with their stellar weekend in London. De Vries’ pole in Round 17 meant the team took the first and last poles of the Gen3 era, with di Grassi having done so in Mexico City back in 2023.
The Indian manufacturer also joined Porsche and Andretti as the only teams that saw both drivers score at least one pole position in Season 12.
The five poles scored by both Edoardo Mortara and de Vries also mark a personal record for Mahindra, with Season 12 bringing their most pole positions in a Formula E campaign. It eclipses the record of three each in Season 3 and 4 by Felix Rosenqvist.
Both de Vries and Mortara eventually stood on the podium in finale at London, finishing second and third. This marked the first time both Mahindra drivers finished on the podium in the Gen3 era.
The last time two Mahindra drivers stood on the same Formula E podium was way back in Season 3, with Rosenqvist and Nick Heidfeld finishing second and third in New York City.
The Indian manufacturer broke yet another record in Round 16, though. With Mortara’s seventh-position finish earning six points, it took Mahindra’s points tally past their personal best of 213 points from the same Season 3.
The team went on to finish third in the standings at the end of the season, matching their finishing position from the same 2016-17 season, and improving on their finishing position by one spot from Season 11 in 2025.
Season 12’s runner-up Jake Dennis came into the weekend in high spirits, looking to carry on his excellent form at a configuration where he notched up two victories and three podium appearances.
While it was not meant to be, as he ended up five points away, the Andretti man can take solace from his 98-point haul over the last seven rounds of the season, more than any other driver managed in Season 12.
Andretti’s haul of 229 points across the season marked their second-best tally after Season 9, when they scored 252 points in Dennis’ title-winning campaign.
The American team notched up a total of 131 points since the Sanya E-Prix in June, more than any other team in the last seven rounds of the season.
Felipe Drugovich failed to score in either race, meaning he would lose out to Cupra Kiro’s Pepe Martí in the race to be the top-scoring rookie in Season 12. His haul of 65 points, though, is the highest score for any of Dennis’ teammates since Maximilian Günther in 2021.
Jaguar may have won the constructors’ title for the second time, but it was once again a bitter pill to swallow for Mitch Evans.
The New Zealander fell short of the championship once again, this time by a margin of nine points to Wehrlein. It marks the third time Evans has fallen short of a title by single digit margins, with the other instances being six points in Season 10 to Wehrlein, and nine points to de Vries in Season 7.
Evans rounded the final race at London’s ExCel Arena in fourth, marking the second year in succession that he failed to finish on a podium at the venue.
Teammate António Félix da Costa ensured Jaguar continued their run of podiums in London in the Gen3 era, scoring third in Round 16.
This would mark the Portuguese driver’s first podium around the ExCel Arena, surpassing his best result of fifth in 2022.
Onto Envision Racing’s Sébastien Buemi now. The Swiss driver has always scored points for the team in green around London, including podiums around the ExCel Arena three years in a row.
While he wouldn’t stand on the rostrum in his final Formula E starts, he still finished fourth and fifth, one of only two drivers to do so all weekend. His haul of 22 points from London marked his highest score in a single completed weekend since the Jeddah E-Prix in February.
He called time on his Formula E career after 160 starts, 14 race wins and 36 podium finishes, along with one Formula E title in Season 2.
Formula E crowned its oldest race winner only a few rounds ago in Shanghai with di Grassi, and London crowned its youngest, with DS Penske’s Taylor Barnard winning his maiden Formula E race on home turf.
Barnard added to his tally from Season 11, becoming the youngest driver to accomplish several feats: start a race, score a point, stand on a podium, lead a lap, start from pole, and score the point for the fastest lap. He scored a victory aged 22 years and 76 days, capitalising on his last chance to secure the record outright from DS Penske teammate Günther.
Barnard’s victory also ensures Formula E leaves Season 12 with 11 different winners, matching Season 7’s count in 2021. Nine different teams have won a race this season, a record in the championship’s history. All 10 teams have now stood on a Formula E podium this season, for the second year in succession.
With the DS Penske man standing on the podium, he became the 17th different driver to score a rostrum finish. Additionally, with 10 different nationalities represented on the podium in Season 12, it marks yet another Formula E record, eclipsing Seasons 5 to 8, as well as Season 11 in 2025 when nine different nationalities stood on the podium.
Citroën Racing scored points for the seventh round in succession, with Nick Cassidy ending the season by scoring points in both London E-Prix races. The French outfit has finished fifth in its debut season, the highest finishing position for the entry since Season 8, when it operated as Rokit Venturi and later became Maserati.
Cassidy finished the season eighth in the drivers’ standings. This marked his lowest finishing position in a Formula E campaign in the Gen3 era, with the New Zealander finishing in the top three across Seasons 9, 10 and 11.
Nissan’s Oliver Rowland may not have defended his title, but the Briton left his home event with both fastest lap points on offer in Rounds 16 and 17. This makes him the only driver to leave a doubleheader in Season 12 with the extra point in both races.
Cupra Kiro’s Pepe Martí emerged as the highest scoring rookie of 2026, edging out Andretti’s Felipe Drugovich by one point in the standings.
Further back, Lola’s Lucas di Grassi ended his Formula E career on a low note, enduring a weekend riddled with issues that saw him fail to finish both races. The Brazilian driver called time on his career after 165 race starts, 14 race wins and 42 podium finishes.
Di Grassi ended the season 17th in the standings, the lowest finishing position for a driver winning atleast one race in a season since Norman Nato in Season 7, when the Frenchman finished 18th in the classification.
With that, Formula E brought to an end its Gen3 era. At 65 races, it marked Formula E's longest running time period for a single generation of car. The Gen2 era spanned 55 races, between Seasons 5 and 8, while the championship's Gen1 car started 45 races between 2014 and 2017.
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