2025–26 Formula E World Championship

The 2025–26 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship is the twelfth season of the FIA Formula E championship, a motor racing championship for electrically powered vehicles recognised by motorsport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for electric open-wheel racing cars. It began in December 2025 and will end in August 2026.

It is the fourth and final season of the Formula E Gen3 Evo, with the Gen4 regulations coming into effect the following season.^[1]

All teams use the Formula E Gen3 Evo car on Hankook tyres.^[2]

After three years of competing in the series, McLaren announced in April 2025 that the McLaren Formula E Team would not return to the championship for the 2025–26 season to focus on its LMDh project in the World Endurance Championship.^[23] The team did not find a buyer and shut down, leaving Nissan without a customer team for the first time since the 2021–22 season.^[24]

Citroën announced they would be joining Formula E in the 2025–26 season, as Stellantis replaced Maserati MSG Racing, which had competed in the series for 3 years, with the Citroën brand.^[25] This marked the marque's debut in top-level single-seater racing.^[26]

TAG Heuer ended their partnership with Porsche after being their title sponsor for six seasons.^[27]

Envision Racing and Robin Frijns parted ways at the end of the 2024–25 season following six seasons together across two spells, with Frijns focusing on his FIA WEC Hypercar program with BMW M Team WRT.^[28][29] To replace Frijns, the team signed Jaguar's reserve driver Joel Eriksson, who entered ten Formula E races in 2021 and 2024, for his full-season debut.^[11]

Taylor Barnard, who finished fourth in his debut season with McLaren, moved to DS Penske, replacing Jean-Éric Vergne, who ended his affiliation with the DS Automobiles brand after eight seasons.^[7] Vergne moved over to newly entered Stellantis sister brand Citroën, where he was joined by season eleven runner-up Nick Cassidy, who departed Jaguar TCS Racing after two seasons with the team.^[30][16] This saw former champion Stoffel Vandoorne leave Maserati MSG to become Jaguar's reserve driver, while Jake Hughes become Mahindra's reserve driver and compete in European Le Mans Series LMP2 Class with Algarve Pro Racing.^[31][32][33]

António Félix da Costa departed the Porsche Formula E Team after three seasons as he moved to Jaguar TCS Racing to replace Citroën-bound Cassidy.^[34][9] The team signed Nico Müller, who departed Andretti after a single season with the American team, where he finished 15th in the standings.^[35][19] To replace Müller, Andretti signed 2022 Formula 2 Champion Felipe Drugovich for his full-season debut after he made a one-round appearance in the 2024–25 season with Mahindra Racing.^[36]

David Beckmann left Cupra Kiro after a season with the team and returned to reserve driver duties at Porsche.^[37][38] He was replaced by former Red Bull junior driver Pepe Martí, who graduated from Formula 2, where he drove for Campos Racing.^[5]

Departing team McLaren saw Taylor Barnard move to DS Penske, while Sam Bird would not return to race in the series after having taken part in every season since the championship's inauguration, instead taking up a reserve driver role at Nissan.^[7][39]

The official calendar was released on 16 October 2025.^[40] The following ePrix are contracted to form the 2025–26 Formula E World Championship, which will be the longest season in championship history, consisting of a record 17 races.

• The Miami ePrix once again changed its venue: After just a single year of running on the Homestead-Miami Speedway road course, the race switched to the Miami International Autodrome, the venue which also hosts Formula One's Miami Grand Prix.^[42]
• Formula E will make its racing debut at Circuito del Jarama, with the track holding the inaugural Madrid ePrix after previously hosting season eleven's pre-season test when the Circuit Ricardo Tormo was unavailable due to flooding in the area.^[43]
• The Sanya ePrix will return to the calendar for the first time in seven years, while the Jakarta ePrix was dropped.^[40]

The format used in qualifying has been slightly altered, with the two group stage sessions shortened from twelve to ten minutes each. The requirement for every driver to set a laptime in the first half of group qualifying has also been removed.^[40]

Races including a mandatory pit boost stop now require drivers to only take attack mode once instead of twice.^[40]

After the pre-season test for the 2024–25 season had to be relocated to Circuito del Jarama due to flooding in Valencia, Formula E returned to Circuit Ricardo Tormo ahead of the 2025–26 season, with six sessions held on 27–30 October. Mahindra's Edoardo Mortara posted the fastest time of the test in the penultimate session, leading Nissan's defending champion Oliver Rowland, DS Penske's new signing Taylor Barnard and the second Nissan of Norman Nato, with the top four separated by less than a hundreth of a second and the whole field less than 0.9 seconds apart.^[44] The test once again featured a mock race which was also used to test yellow flag and red flag procedures during pit boost stops and was won by Porsche's Nico Müller.^[45] Like in the season before, the official pre-season test was followed by an all-female test, this time consisting of two separate sessions. F1 Academy driver Chloe Chambers posted the fastest time for Mahindra, ahead of Abbi Pulling's Nissan.^[46]

Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein was fastest in qualifying for the season-opening São Paulo ePrix, but a penalty demoted him to fourth on the grid and allowed Andretti's Jake Dennis to start the race first. Dennis, Mortara, Wehrlein, Nato and Jaguar's António Félix da Costa formed the top group in the opening stages, with Rowland and Citroën's Jean-Éric Vergne joining the lead battle through the first round of attack mode activations. The two Nissan drivers collided on lap 17, with Nato suffering a puncture. Citroën's Nick Cassidy rose through the field after taking his second attack mode. A clash between Mortara and Lola's Lucas di Grassi on lap 22 caused a safety car, with all leaders bar Dennis already into their second attack mode. That allowed him to take attack mode and the lead once racing resumed, but Cupra Kiro's Pepe Martí then misjudged a full course yellow thrown for Jaguar's Mitch Evans. He heavily collided with two other cars, flew into the air and caused a red flag. Dennis led the one-lap resumption, winning ahead of Rowland and Cassidy.^[47]

Pole position for the Mexico City ePrix went to Envision's Sébastien Buemi ahead of Barnard after the latter's final lap was judged to be outside track limits and deleted. Buemi went straight on at the opening corner and dropped to the back, handing the lead to Barnard before Wehrlein took over at the front after being the first to activate attack mode. That saw him fall back down the order later on, however, before a retirement for Mahindra's Nyck de Vries caused an interruption on lap 17. That favored the drivers who had not yet taken their attack mode, among them Cassidy, who took a six-minute activation to rise from outside the top ten into the lead. He led a queue of cars that all had four minutes of attack mode left, while he had only two. Still, he was able to fend off Mortara and Dennis over the final laps, with Rowland using the battle at the front to get past Barnard into fourth. That turned into third when Dennis ran out of energy at the end of the race, while Cassidy held on to win Formula E's 150th race and claim the championship lead.^[48][49]

Müller secured his maiden Formula E pole position in the series' inaugural qualifying session around the Miami International Autodrome.^[50] Rain ahead of the race saw the field start behind the safety car, with a standing start afterwards. Andretti's Felipe Drugovich was the first to take attack mode, using it to claim the lead as the top seven broke away from the rest of the field. Müller and Drugovich traded first place, each trying to conserve energy, before Da Costa and Evans also joined the fight. The latter had taken his first attack mode on lap nineteen to rise up the field and end up third. The Jaguar drivers ran side by side entering lap 24, with Evans moving into second behind Müller. Da Costa was then removed from contention when Drugovich outbraked himself and ran into his back on lap 26. Evans took the lead from Müller with a great move on lap 27, holding on throughout the final round of attack modes to secure a record-breaking fifteenth Formula E win. Wehrlein took third to close up to two points behind Cassidy in the standings.^[51]

Mortara took Mahindra’s first pole position since 2024 in qualifying for the first of the two Jeddah ePrix races.^[52] However, his start to the race was disastrous as he bogged down and fell to fifth. Günther took the lead and held it through an early safety car phase, with Nato, Barnard and Wehrlein behind him. Nato took first place after the restart, while Wehrlein made his way into second on lap 14. By that point, the pitstop window for the first use of pit boost of the season began to open. A third of the field stopped on lap 15, with others electing to first take their sole attack mode in hopes of overcutting other cars. Günther was among those who first activated the 350kw power mode, and it saw him reclaim the lead after the stops had played out. However, Wehrlein was right behind him and had yet to take his attack mode. He did so on lap 20, took the lead right away and drew out a seven-second gap to win his 100th Formula E race and take the championship lead. Günther dropped down further as Mortara and Evans completed the podium.^[53][54]

The second race in Jeddah saw Mortara go back-to-back in qualifying as he claimed another pole position by beating Dennis in the final.^[55] This time, he was able to defend his lead at the start, before the field started working to conserve energy and the lead changed hands multiple times. Rowland, Buemi and Da Costa all held first place during the opening part, before the first round of attack mode activations began on lap eleven. Rowland activated his higher power mode on lap 16 and hit the front shortly after. Da Costa followed a lap later and claimed the lead on lap 20. Rowland fell to third behind Cupra Kiro's Dan Ticktum, before he activated his second attack mode. Da Costa crucially managed to hold on to the lead when taking his second attack mode, and with Ticktum defending from Rowland, the Portuguese was able to build a gap. That allowed him to claim his first race win for Jaguar, with Buemi taking second and Rowland having to settle for third. Points leader Wehrlein came eighth, his lead gap reduced to six points.^[56][57]

Points are awarded using the following structure:

The highest-placed two cars per powertrain manufacturer per race score points towards that manufacturer's position in the standings. The cars that do not score any points do not appear in the standings and the points are allocated to the following Manufacturer's car eligible to score points. Points allocated for the driver obtaining the Pole Position and the Fastest Lap are not counted.^[59]

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