We told you the Formula E title fight was heading into the London finale as tight as it gets, with Mahindra Racing still chasing a big result of its own. It got even wilder than that. Pascal Wehrlein is now a two-time Formula E World Champion, and he sealed the title without scoring a single point on the day it mattered most.
Quick refresher if you have not followed Formula E before: it is Formula 1’s electric cousin, open-wheel and single-seater, except every car runs on a battery instead of a fuel tank, and races happen on tight street circuits instead of purpose-built tracks. It is where manufacturers like Porsche, Jaguar and Nissan push EV tech that eventually shows up in the cars you buy.
London hosts the season finale every year, run across two races on back to back days. In Saturday’s race, Wehrlein drove a near flawless opener for the Porsche factory team, took the win, and grabbed the points lead heading into Sunday’s title decider.
A title won while finishing outside the points
Sunday turned into a proper scrap. Jake Dennis, Wehrlein’s closest title rival driving for Andretti, charged through the field from the back trying to force a winner take all finish. Jaguar’s Antonio Felix da Costa spent the race defending hard against Wehrlein on track, doing his own teammate’s title rival a real favour by holding Wehrlein up lap after lap. It worked, to a point: Wehrlein got shuffled back to 14th and crossed the line with zero points.
It did not matter. Saturday’s win had already built him a big enough cushion. He closed the season on 169 points to Dennis’s 164, a five point margin that survived a scoreless final race. It is a strange way to win a championship, but it also shows how one dominant result can outweigh a shaky one.
Wehrlein becomes only the second driver in Formula E history to win the title twice, joining Jean-Eric Vergne, and fittingly, his first title back in 2023/24 was also sealed right here in London.
Barnard steals the spotlight, Mahindra has its best weekend yet
The race itself went to Britain’s Taylor Barnard, driving for DS Penske. It was his first ever Formula E win, and at 22 years and 76 days old, it made him the youngest race winner in the series’ history, beating a record set by Maximilian Gunther a few seasons back. There is a bittersweet edge to it too: DS Automobiles is exiting Formula E as Penske’s manufacturer partner after this season, so Barnard’s breakthrough win doubled up as a send-off.
And about that Mahindra storyline we flagged heading into the weekend: the team did not walk away with a title, but it had its best weekend of the season by far. Nyck de Vries and Edoardo Mortara locked out the front row in qualifying, a first for the team, then backed it up by finishing second and third in Sunday’s race, right behind Barnard. No fairytale on the championship table, but a genuinely strong note to close the season on.
Why this weekend matters beyond the trophy
This was also the last race for Formula E’s Gen3 car, the generation used since 2023. The series switches to a new Gen4 car next season, so every manufacturer on the grid, Porsche included, is already deep into developing faster charging, more efficient motors and sharper regenerative braking (the system that recovers energy when you brake instead of wasting it as heat). That tech tends to filter down into the electric cars on actual showroom floors before long.
For now though, this one belongs to Wehrlein and Porsche. Two titles in three seasons is a serious run, and doing the second one without scoring a point in the decider is a stat that will follow him around for the rest of his career.
