Formula E Season 10 Finale: Wehrlein snatches the Drivers Championship from Jaguar's Kiwis at nail biting finale
07/29/2024 01:41 PM
Formula E Season 10 concluded this past weekend and it is fair to say that it went down to the wire. Ultimately, Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein claimed his maiden FE title of the series, beating both Nick Cassidy and Mitch Evans.
Race 1
- Mitch Evans led the field away from Sebastian Buemi in P2 and Pascal Wehrlein in P3.
- Robin Frijns and Jake Dennis had a lap 1 accident and the safety car was deployed.
- By the time the safety car came in on lap 4, Cassidy made up two places after a terrible qualifying and Nico Mueller had a puncture so he went into the pits.
- Two incidents occurred at once as former champion Dennis and Jean-Eric Vergne came together, whilst Oliver Rowland took Antonio Felix Da Costa out of title contention.
- Evans and Buemi battle for the lead on lap 14.
- Cassidy and Stoffel Vandoorne had a coming together but the Kiwi ended up
- Wehrlein took the lead on lap 22 and he managed to take both attack modes and stay P1 while Max Guenther was battling Evans for P2.
- Norman Nato and Sacha Fenestraz ended up colliding bringing out another safety car.
- After we went green, Wehrlein went for the lead as did Guenther but he had a gearbox failure and had to stop on track from P2, bringing out a full course yellow.
- Wehrlein managed to hold on and take the win from Evans in P2, Buemi claimed P3, with Nyck De Vries P4 and Edo Mortara in P5. Mueller took P6 ahead of Cassidy P7. Bird finished P8 ahead of Vandoorne and Nato snatched the final point.
Race 2:
- Championship hopeful Cassidy claimed pole position after missing FP3 with a BBW failure.
- Evans made it a Jaguar 1-2 on lap 2, until Mortara and Dennis made contact bringing the safety car. However, he was soon disposed.
- Bird, Nato, Dan Ticktum and Jehan Daruvala are all involved in an incident, which brings out the safety car. Daruvala and Bird collided and collected both Nato and Ticktum.
- Cassidy stays in lead after taking his attack mode, but Evans is not going to give up the championship without a fight and he soon retakes the lead.
- Wehrlein begins to pile the pressure on the Jaguars ahead, nipping past Cassidy in his quest for the title.
- Dennis got a 5 second time penalty for that collision with Mortara, however it could turn into a grid drop for Brazil.
- Evans and Wehrlein made contact but attack mode still had to be taken.
- Da Costa and Guenther had a battle which allowed the German up to P6.
- Disaster struck for Cassidy as he got a puncture from Da Costa, ending his title hopes and bringing out the safety car.
- Rowland snatched the lead from Evans and Wehrlein, as Evans missed attack mode.
- Three added laps due to the safety car, however, Evans was in a position that he could not attack the leaders as he had to ensure his attack mode was used up before the end of the race.
- As Rowland took the win, it was Pascal Wehrlein, snatching P2, who became the ABB FIA Formula E World Champion!
- Evans finished in P3 which sealed Jaguar the manufacturer’s championship.
Position Driver Team Points 1st Pascal Wehrlein Tag Heur Porsche Formula E Team 198 2nd Mitch Evans Jaguar TCS Racing 192 3rd Nick Cassidy Jaguar TCS Racing 176 4th Oliver Rowland Nissan Formula E Team 156 5th Jean-Eric Vergne DS Penske 139 6th Antonio Felix Da Costa Tag Heur Porsche Formula E Team 134 7th Jake Dennis Andretti Formula E 122 8th Maximilian Guenther Maserarti MSG Racing 73 9th Robin Frijns Envision Racing 66 10th Stoffel Vandoorne DS Pesnske 61 11th Sebastian Buemi Envision Racing 53 12th Nico Muller Abt Cupra 52 13th Sam Bird Neom McLaren Formula E Team 48 14th Jake Hughes Neom McLaren Formula E Team 48 15th Norman Nato Andretti Formula E 47 16th Edoardo Mortara Mahindra Racing 29 17th Sacha Fenestraz Nissan Formula E Team 26 18th Nyck De Vries Mahindra Racing 18 19th Dan Ticktum ERT Formula E Team 12 20th Sergio Sette Camara ERT Formula E Team 11 21st Jehan Daruvala Maserati MSG Racing 8 22nd Taylor Banard Neom McLaren Formula E Team 5 23rd Lucas Di Grassi Abt Cupra Formula E Team 4 24th Joel Eriksson Envision Racing 2 25th Sheldon Van Der Linde Abt Cupra Formula E Team 0 26th Jordan King Mahindra Racing 0 27th Paul Aron Envision Racing 0 28th Caio Collet Nissan Formula E Team 0
