Winners and Losers: London E-Prix
- Vyas Ponnuri
- Jul 29
- 14 min read
Written by Vyas Ponnuri
London marked an emotional farewell to Formula E’s 11th season, bringing an end to one team’s Formula E career, while others left their mark on the sport by taking home the biggest of prizes. DIVEBOMB takes you through the winners and losers from Formula E’s final race weekend of 2025.
Winner: Nick Cassidy
London capped off a perfect swansong weekend for Nick Cassidy’s Jaguar stint. The New Zealander ensured he ended 2025 with three near-perfect scores, catapulting his way up into second in the standings.
Cassidy’s haul of 51 points from the British capital also marked the first instance of the Jaguar man winning two Formula E races on the same weekend. This was also Cassidy’s 11th Formula E victory, and third around London, making him the most successful man around the venue.
Having sat 13th in the standings after Round 9 in Tokyo with only 34 points to his name, the New Zealander has turned a new leaf, reinvigorated by Jaguar’s and his own performance in changeable conditions around Shanghai and Berlin.
Starting fifth for Round 15 on Saturday, Cassidy made quick work of Cupra Kiro’s Dan Ticktum into Turn 3 at the start, before sitting behind Mahindra Racing’s de Vries and Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein as the leaders formed a holding pattern.
Despite losing out to de Vries and Wehrlein in attack mode, Cassidy stayed put, diving into the pits for the mandatory Pit Boost stop.
Even though his Mahindra rival used up both his attack modes and emerged ahead, Cassidy made light work of the Dutch racer to hold a dominant race lead. Unperturbed, he made the perfect restart after a late race safety car, bolting away to win the race by 1.5 seconds at the flag.
Cassidy inherited pole for Round 16 after pole-sitter Ticktum received a five-place grid drop. Despite facing challenges from DS Penske’s Maximilian Günther, the Jaguar man held position off the line.
Despite a back and forth over the radio to help teammate Evans close up, in a bid to avert his five-second penalty, Cassidy’s attempts to nail the fastest lap proved successful, and he never looked back, sweeping the London weekend with a dominant 14-second victory over de Vries.
Scoring 77 points from the final three races, Cassidy doubled his 2025 points tally, with his haul of 153 points promoting him up into second in the standings, and delivering James Barclay and himself an emotional final weekend with the team.
Winners: Jaguar
Jaguar have now won five of the last six Formula E races, the only exception being the Jakarta E-Prix won by Ticktum and Cupra Kiro. Four of these victories have gone to Cassidy, while Mitch Evans took victory at Round 13 in Berlin.
Adding onto the São Paulo E-Prix win in December, it marked the Kidlington-based outfit’s sixth victory in 2025, making them the most prolific winners in 2025, even more so than championship winners Porsche, who took only a singular race win.
London marked the perfect send-off for long-time team principal Barclay, who took them from a newbie in Season 2 to a maiden constructors’ title at the end of Season 10.
Evans and Cassidy both made it into the duels, with the former taking pole for Round 15, while Cassidy started fifth. Evans led the opening stages of the race before losing the lead to de Vries in attack mode. His fierce attempts to fend off a charging Wehrlein meant the pole-sitter lost valuable ground to teammate Cassidy, who made his mandatory Pit Boost stop and emerged in clean air.
Evans, who pitted soon after, would be the biggest loser from the sequence of stops, dropping down to seventh. He would then be the victim of a collision in Turn 19 on Lap 31, with Ticktum spinning the Jaguar man around.
A late safety car induced after Ticktum’s incident saved his race, as Evans made use of his attack mode to climb back up into the points, taking home the fastest lap on the way.
Round 16 saw Cassidy inherit pole, while Evans started third for the race. Despite running 1-2 after Evans made his way past de Vries, this would be under siege, with Evans receiving a five-second time penalty for speeding under the full course yellow brought out by Norman Nato and Taylor Barnard's incident on Lap 9.
As he radioed to the team for Cassidy to slow down and tow him along, the situation remained as it was until the chequered flag, with Evans dropping down to fifth in the final classification.
Evans can take solace from contributing to Jaguar's run to second in the constructors’ standings, finishing 29 points off eventual champions Porsche. A perfect storm made up for the inconsistencies faced early in the season.
Winners: Mahindra Racing
Outside of the championship winners, one team emerged the happiest from Season 11: Mahindra Racing. A pair of podiums from the returning de Vries catapulted the Indian manufacturer up into fourth in the standings, just edging out DS Penske by two points in the final battle.
Fourth marks the team’s second-best finishing position ever in Formula E, behind the team’s third in Season 3, and only backs the hard work put in by team principal Frederic Bertrand to elevate Formula E’s longest-serving single works manufacturer towards the front of the field.
Coincidentally, it was back in London when Mahindra began their purple patch of form, when de Vries and Mortara took fourth and fifth in the penultimate race of Season 10. Now back in London, the team were locked into a battle with McLaren for fifth in the standings.
With de Vries qualifying and driving a strong race to finish second in the standings, and teammate Mortara moving up from ninth to sixth after a doughty race-long battle with Andretti’s Jake Dennis, it catapulted Mahindra into fifth in the standings, just 10 points off DS Penske in fourth.
With their sights firmly on the team in black-and-gold, de Vries put in a strong qualifying performance to start fifth on the grid for Round 16. Making overtakes on Günther and scrapping away with Rowland and Evans in the race, the Dutchman gained second on the road from Evans’ penalty, as he took Mahindra to fourth in the overall standings.
Mortara, on the other hand, would experience a failure as he got away from the five red lights, losing drive even before he reached Turn 1, and retired from the race.
While de Vries and Mortara finished only eighth and ninth in the Drivers’ standings, their combined points haul, coupled with six valuable points from Berlin stand-in Felipe Drugovich, was enough to seal the deal for Mahindra in London, leaving them optimistic for Season 12.
Winners: Envision Racing
Envision Racing did not have the finest of weekends in Berlin, despite Robin Frijns showing plenty of promise in changeable conditions. A double DNF in Round 14 left the team itching to make a comeback at the season finale in London.
A greater motivator proved to be the battle with Maserati for eighth in the standings, while a slip-up could even see them finish tenth, with Cupra Kiro lurking only four points behind.
The omens didn’t look to be in their favour after qualifying, with Buemi and Frijns starting only 18th and 19th for Round 15. Both drivers opted to save their energy for later in the race, holding fort early in the race, until their Pit Boost stops.
Activating their final attack modes after the safety car was withdrawn, Frijns and Buemi elevated themselves up to eighth and 10th on the road. However, Buemi’s five-second penalty for an earlier safety car infringement dropped him down to sixth, while Frijns wound up seventh after benefitting from Jake Dennis’ post-race penalty.
However, Maserati’s Stoffel Vandoorne finishing fourth meant Envision Racing found themselves with ten points to make up, heading into the season finale in Round 16.
Their uphill climb was exacerbated by Buemi’s five-place grid drop for an earlier incident in Round 15, demoting him to 19th on the grid, while Frijns started 12th. This time, both Frijns and Buemi opted to take earlier attack modes, while benefitting from incidents around them, to sit seventh and ninth after Rowland’s incident brought out the safety car.
Taking his second attack mode on the restart, Buemi was able to make up ground, with an overtake on Dennis onto Lap 32 putting him in effectively in a podium position once Evans’ penalty would be applied.
Sure enough, Buemi would clinch third, bringing home eighth in the standings after both Maserati drivers failed to score, and teammate Frijns eventually finished 13th on the road. The Swiss racer finished 12th in the standings with 84 points to his name, capping off a resurgent season that even saw him break a five-year duck between race victories in Monaco.
Winners: Porsche
Porsche came into this weekend 23 points in the ascendancy, leading Nissan in the championship standings. In the race for their maiden Formula E title, the German manufacturer looked to be steadier in the standings, given the consistent points haul by both Pascal Wehrlein and António Félix da Costa through the season.
Although it wasn’t an entirely consistent weekend for the team, they did enough to seal the title by 29 points from a hard-charging Jaguar, while Nissan’s charge floundered away in the British capital.
Qualifying for Round 15 saw Wehrlein make it up to the semi-final, as he started third for the 37-lap race. While he maintained his position behind de Vries, he wouldn’t be able to follow the Mahindra driver through in attack mode, losing vital time stuck behind Evans’ Jaguar in his first attack mode.
Having closed up to his Dutch rival ahead, Wehrlein wouldn’t be able to make it past, with the safety car called out just as the Season 10 champion had taken his second hit of attack mode during the race.
With no more attack mode left as the race restarted, Wehrlein held firm to take home third on the road, while teammate da Costa finished only 14th, after starting 17th for the race.
Round 16 brought better fortunes for the Portuguese driver, even though he started dead last after a mechanical issue in qualifying. Benefitting from incidents ahead, da Costa climbed up an excellent 16 positions, finishing sixth on the road, two spots ahead of teammate Wehrlein, who once again suffered from a safety car intervention when he took attack mode.
The result was enough for the German team to clinch the constructors’ championship, with customer teams Andretti and Cupra Kiro’s combined efforts helping them also take home the Manufacturers’ Championship by 33 points from Jaguar. A stellar haul from the team, whose 10 podiums trumped other multiple race-winners in the ultimate standings.
Winner: David Beckmann
Heading into the London E–Prix weekend, one driver under immense pressure to prove his worth to the championship was Cupra Kiro racer David Beckmann. His seat has come under immense scrutiny, given teammate Dan Ticktum’s purple run of form that even resulted in a race victory.
Beckmann experienced one of his strongest race weekends of the season in London, qualifying 13th for Round 15. While teammate Ticktum would have a heavy crash into Turn 9 to bring out the safety car, the German driver brought home his Cupra Kiro in 12th.
It was undoubtedly in Round 16, though, when Beckmann managed to secure his first Formula E point, and ensured he avoided the contentious wooden spoon in the drivers’ standings in 2025. Qualifying down in 20th, Beckmann emerged as another driver carefully making his way past the melee unfolding in front of him.
Taking his second attack mode late in the race, Beckmann ascended up the order to sit 11th at the flag. However, with teammate Ticktum slapped a pair of five-second penalties for his incidents earlier in the race, Beckmann would make his way into the points, while Ticktum’s penalties dropped him down from sixth to 14th.
The solitary point marked solace for the American outfit, bringing an end to a brilliant first Formula E campaign, the team securing tenth in the standings, while Ticktum finished 11th in the standings with 85 points to his name.
Heading into their second Formula E campaign in 2026, Cupra Kiro will be looking to improve on their showing, and make a decision on who takes their second seat, should Ticktum continue with the team into Season 12.
Losers: Oliver Rowland
Having sealed the title in Berlin after finishing fourth in Round 14, Rowland came into London with a 59-point lead. One record certainly loomed in sight, da Costa’s 77-point win margin from 2020, with Rowland looking good to break the record and secure Formula E’s highest win margin. It was a good reason to hope for the same, given Rowland’s history at his home venue.
However, none of that would materialise, with Nissan looking well off the pace as Rowland qualified only 12th on the road. Despite running well in the race, he would finish 11th, moving up one spot after Buemi’s penalty was applied, while teammate Norman Nato scored his first points since Shanghai in ninth.
The following day’s season finale saw Rowland in the headlines. Having qualified tenth, behind teammate Nato, the man from Barnsley made a stellar start, gaining seven places in the opening salvos, as he sat a lofty third on the road, and making contact with de Vries in second.
However, he would lose out to the Dutchman in attack mode on Lap 14. Two laps later, as Rowland attempted to make his way past Andretti’s Nico Müller on the main straight, the two drivers made contact, breaking Rowland’s front wing.
Even as he made the overtake, Rowland slithered into the runoff area in the chicane of Turns 1 and 2. Rejoining the circuit at the apex of Turn 2, he clattered into the Andretti driver, ending both drivers’ races and bringing out the safety car.
A scruffy home weekend meant Rowland failed to score for only the second weekend in 2025, the other one being the season opener in São Paulo. The final win margin would be 31 points to Cassidy, still the largest win margin since Stoffel Vandoorne’s 33-point championship win in 2022.
Compounding Rowland’s woes, he will take a three-place grid drop for Season 12’s opener in São Paulo, for his collision in the season finale, capping off a torrid home weekend.
Losers: McLaren
McLaren entered London looking for a final flourish to cap off their storied three-year Formula E stint. While the all-British duo of Taylor Barnard and Sam Bird looked for a big result in front of their home fans, this simply would not play out, and McLaren would subsequently lose out on fifth in the standings to Mahindra, holding on to sixth from Andretti by a mere two points.
Having qualified only 14th and 20th for Round 15, both McLaren drivers found themselves caught up behind the stranded DS Penske of Günther at Turn 7 on the opening lap, with Bird also baulked by the Lola Yamaha ABT of Zane Maloney, suffering damage to his McLaren along the way.
Now running well off the pack, Bird attempted to make up for lost ground, before being the first driver to take his Pit Boost stop. While the move worked, catapulting Bird all the way up to fifth when the entire grid had pitted, a puncture on the final lap saw him drop out of the points, as he retired from the race. Barnard’s recovery drive saw him finish 13th on the road.
However, with Mahindra Racing bagging a podium and sixth, McLaren dropped to sixth in the constructors’ standings, even before heading into what would turn out to be a disastrous Round 16 on Sunday.
Barnard qualified 11th on the road, with Bird down in 18th, after yet another difficult qualifying performance from the Papaya team. Any hopes of ending on a high would go pop after Barnard found himself in the wall in a collision with Nato on Lap 9, triggering the Full Course Yellow with the rookie’s McLaren spun around in Turn 18.
Bird would end an emotional weekend with yet another DNF, his third on the trot, as McLaren’s Formula E career trundled to a close — and potentially even Bird, who may have started his final race in the championship in London.
Losers: DS Penske
While McLaren found themselves losers in the mid-table battle, another team who left London wondering what could have been are DS Penske. The French-American team came into the weekend third, looking to fend off a resurgent Jaguar.
The British team, however, looked unstoppable on home turf, romping up into second in the standings. With Günther’s front right tyre sheared off after contact with Mortara on the start, his sixth-position start amounted to nothing, as the German’s DS Penske slowed to a halt in Turn 7, causing three other cars to find themselves in an opening lap melee.
Teammate Jean-Éric Vergne came away with fifth on the road, having started down in 15th, a solid return for the Frenchman that kept DS Penske moving in London. However, their focus would quickly turn to a surging Mahindra outfit, who sat only 10 points behind in the battle for fourth in the standings.
Despite Günther starting up in second, he would be no match for the charging Jaguars of Evans and Cassidy, as well as the Mahindra of de Vries, who romped past to lock out the podium positions.
Losing out late in the race to Buemi’s Envision Racing, Dennis’ Andretti and the Porsche of da Costa, he would come home to finish seventh, taking home six points, although it wasn’t enough to hold on to fourth in the constructors’ standings.
Vergne, on the other hand, had a difficult finale, qualifying 13th and finishing down in 15th, having been hit with a five-second penalty for failing to follow race director’s instructions, and rejoining the track unsafely after cutting the chicane during the race.
Losers: Maserati
While McLaren endured a difficult farewell from Formula E, another team heading into London with an uncertain future was the Maserati outfit, who started life alongside McLaren after taking over the assets of the Rokit Venturi team back in Season 9.
With heavy rumours of the team expected to rebrand into Season 12, as the likes of Stellantis partners Citroen and Opel eyed a Formula E entry, Maserati may have just completed their last Formula E outing in London.
Locked into a fierce battle for eighth with Envision Racing and Cupra Kiro, the Italian marque set the tone early, with both Stoffel Vandoorne and Jake Hughes heading into the duels stage for Round 15, securing seventh and eighth in qualifying.
Hughes race would last only a sequence of corners, with the Briton coming off worse in a Lap 1 collision with Mortara and Günther, forced to retire with damage. Vandoorne, on the other hand, managed to drive a clean race, finishing fourth for Maserati, strengthening their case to hold on to eighth in the standings.
However, the team’s charge came apart in Round 16 on Sunday, despite Vandoorne making the duels once again to start seventh, while Hughes started 17th.
While Hughes wouldn’t make up ground during the race, finishing down in 17th, and dead last of the classified drivers, Vandoorne would lose out late in the race, as drivers taking attack mode such as da Costa, Lucas di Grassi and Beckmann made light work of the Belgian driver to move ahead into the points.
Vandoorne would come home 12th, with Maserati’s season dealt a further blow as Envision Racing snatched eighth in the championship standings by four points, as Buemi finished on the podium for the team in green.
Losers: Dan Ticktum
It’s not often you’d find Ticktum in this section of the article, and teammate Beckmann at the other end of the spectrum. But such was the London E-Prix weekend that you really could expect the unexpected around the ExCel Arena.
It was a rare off-weekend for Ticktum, who grew up right in the capital city during his childhood days. A weekend marred by incidents, but fleeting success, as he would leave a season of finally seeing the light at the end of a long tunnel.
Ticktum’s qualifying pace emerged as the biggest positive over the weekend, as the home hero made the duels’ stages in both races. Round 15 saw him start fourth, having lost the semi-final to de Vries by a mere nine milliseconds.
Losing a spot to Cassidy’s Jaguar off the line, Ticktum held firm in fifth early in the race, as drivers chose to conserve their energy until the Pit Boost stops came around.
While Ticktum pitted and emerged in a massive pack of cars led by Cassidy, he would drop to eighth once the Pit Boost stops were complete. Battling with Dennis on Lap 31, Ticktum would make contact with Evans in Turn 19, spinning the Jaguar man around.
The Cupra Kiro racer would crash heavily at Turn 9 a lap later, bringing out the safety car and ending his race.
With no provision to serve a penalty during the race, Ticktum was slapped with a five-place grid drop for Round 16. This would prove costly, as he excelled in qualifying to take a maiden pole position for Cupra Kiro.
Demoted to sixth on the grid, Ticktum would encounter yet another scruffy race, making contact with Nato, and failing to maintain a distance of ten car lengths during the safety car period. Both infractions cost him separate five-second penalties, demoting him from sixth at the flag to 14th in the final results, capping off a disastrous final two Formula E weekends in 2025 for the Londoner.
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