Jaguar driver Mitch Evans claimed an unlikely Formula E win from 17th on the grid in Sunday’s Berlin E-Prix, while Pascal Wehrlein finished third to retake the points lead.
Having missed out on the duels in what appeared to be a tactical move, Evans bided his time in the early phases of the race, with Saturday’s opener proving that conserving energy at the back would pay dividends later on.
Although he spent a major chunk of the race outside the top 15, he quickly moved to the front after arming his first attack mode, taking the lead on lap 25 of 37.
He eventually crossed the line eight tenths clear of Nissan e.Dams’s Oliver Rowland to claim his second win of the 2025-26 season, as Wehrlein rounded out the podium positions for Porsche.
At the start of the race, Wehrlein pulled away cleanly from pole position but relinquished the lead soon after, putting Taylor Barnard at the front of the field on lap 2. However, the lead continued to change hands in the opening-thirds of the race, with Nick Cassidy, Edoardo Mortara, Sebastien Buemi and Joel Eriksson all taking turns at the front.
The top 18 cars were separated by just four seconds after lap 14, as a typical pack-style contest ensued at Berlin Tempelhof before the first attack mode cycle.
By lap 18, Rowland had surged to the front of the field, despite a poor launch from the penultimate row of the grid.
A definite order began to emerge on lap 25, when Evans hit the front with attack mode after saving as much as 4% energy over his rivals.
The final 12 laps featured a three-race horse for victory, with Evans, Rowland and Wehrlein pulling away from the chasing pack.
Wehrlein initially grabbed the lead after arming his second attack mode, but Evans pulled off what appeared to be the decisive move with four laps to run en route to a record-extending 16th Formula E win.
Shortly afterwards, Rowland also demoted Wehrlein at the start/finish straight amid a debris warning on track, but escaped investigation to claim a double podium over the Berlin weekend.
Third-place for Wehrlein put him back at the top of the leaderboard, with Evans moving up to second after overnight leader Mortara could only muster seventh in his Mahindra.
Nissan driver Norman Nato secured his best result of the season in fifth with a similar strategy to team-mate Rowland, with Jake Dennis bagging another solid haul of points for Andretti in sixth ahead of Mortara.
Jean-Eric Vergne was classified eighth in the sole-surviving Citroen, with Andretti’s Felipe Drugovich scoring his first points of the year in ninth ahead of Envision’s Erikson.
Saturday winner Nico Muller (Porsche) finished outside the points in 13th after a late collision with Jaguar driver Antonio Felix da Costa that triggered the only full-course yellow period of the weekend.
Citroen star Cassidy was eliminated from contention after being involved in two incidents early in the race. The Kiwi was forced out wide by Mahindra driver Nyck de Vries at Turn 6-7 on lap 4, a move that dropped him outside of the top 10. While trying to recover lost ground, he came to blows with Envision driver Buemi, with the impact forcing an unscheduled pitstop for a change of front wings.
De Vries was the only other retiree from the race, with the incident with Cassidy leaving him with terminal damage.
Formula E Berlin - Race 2 results
RACE
| Cla | Driver | # | Laps | Time | Interval | km/h | Points | Retirement | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  M. Evans Jaguar Racing |
9 | 37 |
39'50.663 |
25 | |||||||
| 2 |  O. Rowland Nissan e.Dams |
1 | 37 |
+0.822 39'51.485 |
0.822 | 18 | ||||||
| 3 |  P. Wehrlein Porsche Team |
94 | 37 |
+1.111 39'51.774 |
0.289 | 15 | ||||||
| 4 |  S. Buemi Envision Racing |
16 | 37 |
+1.639 39'52.302 |
0.528 | 12 | ||||||
| 5 |  N. Nato Nissan e.Dams |
23 | 37 |
+4.424 39'55.087 |
2.785 | 10 | ||||||
| 6 | J. Dennis Andretti Formula E |
27 | 37 |
+5.940 39'56.603 |
1.516 | 8 | ||||||
| 7 | E. Mortara Mahindra Racing |
48 | 37 |
+6.325 39'56.988 |
0.385 | 6 | ||||||
| 8 | J. Vergne Citroën Racing |
25 | 37 |
+7.604 39'58.267 |
1.279 | 4 | ||||||
| 9 |  F. Drugovich Andretti Formula E |
28 | 37 |
+8.491 39'59.154 |
0.887 | 2 | ||||||
| 10 |  J. Eriksson Envision Racing |
14 | 37 |
+8.965 39'59.628 |
0.474 | 1 | ||||||
| 11 | T. Barnard DS Penske |
77 | 37 |
+10.216 40'00.879 |
1.251 | |||||||
| 12 |
P. Martí Cupra Kiro
|
3 | 37 |
+11.712 40'02.375 |
1.496 | |||||||
| 13 | N. Müller Porsche Team |
51 | 37 |
+12.747 40'03.410 |
1.035 | |||||||
| 14 | D. Ticktum Cupra Kiro |
33 | 37 |
+13.212 40'03.875 |
0.465 | |||||||
| 15 | M. Gunther DS Penske |
7 | 37 |
+14.774 40'05.437 |
1.562 | |||||||
| 16 | L. di Grassi LOLA YAMAHA ABT FORMULA E TEAM |
11 | 37 |
+14.873 40'05.536 |
0.099 | |||||||
| 17 |  Z. Maloney LOLA YAMAHA ABT FORMULA E TEAM |
22 | 37 |
+15.342 40'06.005 |
0.469 | |||||||
| 18 |  A. Felix da Costa Jaguar Racing |
13 | 37 |
+36.559 40'27.222 |
21.217 | |||||||
| dnf | N. Cassidy Citroën Racing |
37 | 33 |
+4 Laps 36'11.690 |
4 Laps | Retirement | ||||||
| dnf |  N. de Vries Mahindra Racing |
21 | 3 |
+34 Laps 3'39.831 |
30 Laps | Retirement | ||||||
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