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Formula E Berlin ePrix II
Formula E Berlin E-Prix: Mitch Evans scores remarkable Race 2 win from 17th
Jaguar struck back on Sunday following Porsche's dominant win in the opening race of the Berlin double header
Rachit Thukral
Edited: May 3, 2026, 3:21 PM
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Mitch Evans, Jaguar TCS Racing
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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’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-horse race 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 leaderboards, with Evans moving up to second after overnight leader Mortara could only muster seventh in the 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
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All Stats
Cla Driver # Laps Time Interval km/h Points Retirement 1 M. Evans Jaguar Racing 9 37
39'50.663
25 2 O. Rowland Nissan 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 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. Guenther 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 View full results
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