Domination from lights to flag for Jaguar's Nick Cassidy, who wins in his final race for Jaguar TCS Racing, at the season finale in the London E-Prix, on Sunday afternoon.

Cassidy started on pole following a grid penalty for Dan Ticktum, who initially came out on top in the morning qualifying session but since then never looked back and shone once again, just like he did in the two E-Prix prior to the season finale.

The New Zealander in his final race, but also Jaguar TCS Racing Team Principal James Barclay, who is departing the team after a fantastic period. Cassidy took victory ahead of Nyck De Vries, after teammate Mitch Evans had a five-second time penalty for a Full Course Yellow infraction.

Evans finished in fifth, which promoted De Vries to second and Sebastian Buemi to the final podium position of third, after a great drive from 19th. Jake Dennis of Andretti was fourth for Andretti, the other driver in the top five.

A frustrating final race for Oliver Rowland, saw the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Champion retire after hitting the barrier following multiple incidents of contact. Subsequently, Nissan lost the Teams' and Manufacturers' Championship battle to Porsche, who had both drivers in the points.

Sunday afternoon in the capital of the United Kingdom, London, witnessed the final round of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. The 16th and final round of Season 11, which had been a fantastic season.

Despite the World Drivers' Championship being decided in the Round 14 Berlin E-Prix, the Teams' and Manufacturers' Championship still had to be decided in the final race of the season. Porsche and Nissan were going head-to-head for glory.

Starting from pole position was neither a Nissan or Porsche driver. Instead it was the Jaguar of Nick Cassidy, a driver who had won the two previous E-Prix, that was to start from the front of the field. This was following a five-place grid penalty for Dan Ticktum, who won the qualifying duels.

Cassidy was joined on the front row of the grid by German Maximilian Gunther of DS Penske, could he be looking at victory? On the second row, just behind Cassidy, was Mitch Evans of Jaguar and Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein.

34 laps of racing got underway as the lights went out and it was a good start from Cassidy, who took the lead of the E-Prix into the first turn, ahead of Gunther, Evans and Nyck De Vries up into fourth. Wehrlein dropped down to fifth.

Edoardo Mortara had trouble though further back. After a brake issue during qualifying, he dropped down the order immediately at the start, and the Swiss driver of Mahindra Racing looked to be out of the race.

At the end of the first lap, it was Cassidy leading Gunther and Evans. Meanwhile, a positive start to the E-Prix from the Nissan of 2024/25 champion Oliver Rowland, who from 10th on the grid, was up into seventh and ahead of teammate Norman Nato.

Evans was pressuring the DS Penske of Gunther and was up into second to make it a Jaguar 1-2, while Ticktum was bullied out the way by the Nissan duo, who elevated their positions to sixth and seventh in the order.

Gunther was struggling for pace in the early stages, in London, as he soon lost places to De Vries and Wehrlein. De Vries was up into third, while Wehrlein moved up into fourth. On lap five, Gunther dropped to sixth as he was passed by Rowland.

The first driver into Attack Mode on lap four was Nico Mueller but no other drivers would venture for Attack Mode throughout lap five. Instead battles were kicking off throughout the field, with De Vries and Rowland overtaking Evans.

Mueller took four minutes of Attack Mode and in doing so was looking to elevate himself into the top five but he was soon joined in taking a first Attack Mode by Wehrlein and Taylor Barnard on lap six of 34.

Battles were ongoing up and down the field and it included another change of position between Evans and Rowland, with Rowland getting back up into third and ahead of the Jaguar TCS Racing driver.

On lap seven, Nato was the latest to venture into Attack Mode while his teammate Nissan Oliver Rowland was powering his way back through the positions lost and was up into fourth, and then soon was up into third by the start of lap nine.

DS Penske duo took their Attack Mode while Dan Ticktum had picked up damage and pitted to get it fixed.

Oliver Rowland and De Vries locked in battle with De Vries moving into Rowland and damaging part of the Nissan front wing, which annoyed Rowland somewhat. Luckily for Rowland he did not need to pit.

De Vries picked up a black and white flag for this, for dangerous driving, so the Dutchman had to be careful moving onto the rest of the E-Prix.

Following a collision with Norman Nato and Taylor Barnard, the Full Course Yellow was then deployed but just before this, race leader Cassidy picked up his first Attack Mode deployment, which lost the New Zealander a bit of ground on the rest of the field.

Eventually, De Vries took his first Attack mode of four minutes on lap 11 and at a similar time, Sebastian Buemi and Zane Maloney took their first Attack Mode deployments too. The first driver to take his second Attack Mode deployment was Mueller, one lap later than De Vries' first.

Drama for a Jaguar but it was not race leader Cassidy who was in bother. Evans was being looked at for a Full Course Yellow infringement. Once the Stewards looked at it, they determined that a five-second time penalty was a sufficient punishment.

Soon, Jake Dennis and Robin Frijns were the latest to visit their first Attack Mode deployments and in doing so were looking to move up into the top 10. Soon, Gunther and Wehrlein went into their second Attack Modes.

Rowland after the contact with De Vries was very aggressive in defending and none more so than the Andretti of Mueller. Into the first turn on lap 16, battling got too aggressive and the pair collided.

The 2024/25 Formula E World Champion made contact with Mueller in turn two and hit the techpro barrier and was out of the London E-Prix as well as Mueller. The Safety Car was inevitably deployed and just 18 drivers were left in the race.

End of lap 19 and the Safety Car was withdrawn, which meant lap 20 was the first lap of green flag racing in London. Following the Safety Car, there was two additional laps of racing, bringing the total to 36.

Cassidy nailed the restart and did well to maintain the lead from De Vries and led throughout the restart lap. There was change on the restart lap in the top three and that was for second as Evans, with that penalty, had got ahead of De Vries.

In terms of Attack Mode deployment, Jake Hughes and Lucas Di Grassi were the latest to visit the deployment of Attack Mode and for both it was for the first time. On lap 21, one lap later, it was Da Costa, who took his first Attack Mode of the race.

Sam Bird was one of the first into his last Attack Mode as the NEOM McLaren took on six minutes, which was all his Attack Mode had remaining, as David Beckmann took his first. The final drivers to take their first Attack Mode was Ticktum and Stoffel Vandoorne.

They were the last ones as Evans had done it a couple of laps prior but it was good strategy for Jaguar, as Evans had remained in second and crucially ahead of De Vries in the Mahindra.

Ticktum took four minutes in the first deployment, while Vandoorne ended up taking six minutes. Speaking of Ticktum, his race got bad to worse when he was handed a five-second time penalty for a Safety Car infraction with Di Grassi also picking up one.

Di Grassi was involved in an incident with Sam Bird, with Di Grassi of Lola Yamaha ABT losing a bit of front wing after running into the back of the NEOM McLaren of Bird. Bird picked up severe damage in the rear of the car and came into pit lane to retire, in what was likely to be his final Formula E race.

Out in front by lap 28, the Jaguar duo along with De Vries and Jake Dennis, who moved up into fourth, had all served the final parts of their Attack Mode and this was going to be entertaining as the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship boiled down into the latter stages of the season.

Sebastian Buemi was having a quiet but impressive race. After starting 19th on the grid, he was up into fourth after his second and final Attack Mode. A great drive from the Swiss.

After the final Attack Mode deployment from Evans, the Round 13 Berlin E-Prix winner was getting frustrated due to him feeling he was not getting the fair support from the team and teammate Cassidy, compared to what he gave earlier in the race.

The race laps kept ticking down and nothing was happening in the favour of Evans and out in front, Cassidy had been brilliant in the second half of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

Jaguar TCS Racing had won the last three E-Prix in consecutive fashion with two wins in Berlin, one from Mitch Evans and one from Nick Cassidy. To start the weekend in London, Cassidy won the first race and on Sunday he won the second!

Cassidy took the chequered flag to win the season finale of Season 11 in the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Nyck De Vries secured second place, following a Evans penalty, which dropped the other Jaguar to fifth. Sebastian Buemi completed the podium in third.

Jake Dennis was fourth for Andretti with Antonio Felix Da Costa in sixth. Maximilian Gunther was seventh ahead of Pascal Wehrlein in eighth. Lucas Di Grassi and David Beckmann rounded off the top 10 positions in the provisional classification.

In terms of prizes, Porsche secured the Teams' and Manufacturers' Championships. Brilliant work from the team and the German manufacturer and a memorable year even if they did not secure the World Drivers' Championship like Season 10.

However, in terms of the World Drivers' Championship in Season 11, there was no one better than British driver Oliver Rowland. Even though he will look back on the season finale with regret about his decision-making, it has been an outstanding season from the Nissan driver.

Rowland the man of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. He is the champion.

Formula E racing action will return for Season 12, when the start of the 2025/26 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, with the season opener in Sao Paulo between 5-6 December 2025.

"From the writer of every single Formula E report across the season, Brandon Whiteside, I want to say a massive thank you to every one that has read these articles. It has been a big but brilliant addition, adding this championship to our content. I have thoroughly enjoyed it and cannot wait for more history in 2025/26.

Congratulations to Oliver Rowland you have been mega but also to Porsche, who have been formidable as a team but a manufacturer too. What a moment in pre-season for female participation. All of it has been fantastic.

Thank you once again for all your F1 Journal support covering the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in 2024/25."

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Writer - F1 Journal

A fantastic knockout duel performance from Dan Ticktum, who for the first time in his Formula E career, he is king of the qualifying session, but due to a grid penalty he will not start Sunday from pole.

Following an incident in Saturday's London E-Prix, Ticktum will take a five-place grid penalty in Sunday's race but will still keep his three World Drivers' Championship points after coming out on top in the qualifying duels.

Instead of Ticktum starting on pole, it will be the Jaguar of Nick Cassidy, who was the last two successive E-Prix races - with one in London on Saturday, and the other in Berlin two weeks prior.

Oliver Rowland, already crowned champion, just missed out on the duels after missing out on fourth by 0.034. It is a big day for his team Nissan, who are fighting with Porsche for the Teams' and Manufacturers' Championship titles.

Group A got underway with the green light on at the end of the pit lane and the first 11 drivers headed out for their first 12-minute sessions, with all wanting a place in the final knockout duels of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

Immediately, all 11 drivers were out on track preparing for their push laps, as the session began to reach near the halfway point.

Nick Cassidy was a driver, who came into round 16 with fantastic form and the New Zealand driver laid down a first flying lap to go quickest, with his Jaguar TCS Racing teammate Mitch Evans slotting into second. 

Antonio Felix Da Costa has had a mixed set of results across the season, when it comes to qualifying and unfortunately his final qualifying of the season was done after a significant brake issue. He came to a stop at the first turn and was out of qualifying.

For causing a red flag, his lap was to be deleted, as per the sporting regulations ruling. Soon though the session was back underway, with the clock having been paused with four minutes and 45 seconds left on the clock.

Drivers were having to push as they had no time to do anything different. Edoardo Mortara was the driver to beat for Mahindra. The Mahindra team were first and third, with the Jaguars second and fourth.

A 1:08.583 was the time to beat from Mortara and his lap was impressive enough that his next lap was not good enough to beat his previous time. Nyck De Vries' next lap was good enough to make it a 1-2 for the team though.

Soon enough, the chequered flag was out and drivers had their current laps to improve their positions in an attempt to get through to the knockout duels. By the end of the session, Oliver Rowland was the big shock elimination after missing out by just 0.034.

Edoardo Mortara finished top of the session, ahead of teammate De Vries. Both Mahindra cars were through to the knockout duels, as were the two Jaguar machines with Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy through in third and fourth.

Following Group A, attention turned to the other 11 drivers in Group B.

Following Group A's conclusion in London, attention turned to the other group of drivers, who headed out of the pit lane and onto the track, for 12 minutes to try and secure a place in the top four.

​Half of the session had progressed and eventually, fast laps began to be set and it was a strong lap from Stoffel Vandoorne in the first laps set. He led the way from the two DS Penske machines of Jean-Eric Vergne and Maximilian Gunther.

Time was beginning to tick down and the drivers needed to find some lap times. Pascal Wehrlein was a driver in need of a lap, as he was in the provisional elimination zone but with four minutes to go, he went fastest.

A 1:08.640 for the Season 10 Formula E World Champion and he went to the top of the times. That was until one minute later, when Gunther went to the top for the DS Penske team with a 1:08.573 - 0.067 faster than his fellow German.

The track was ramping up a lot in very quick session and with a 1:08.447 went to the top of the time sheets for the Cupra Kiro team and with 90 seconds remaining he, Gunther, Wehrlein and Vandoorne were provisionally through but all had one more flying lap.

Soon enough time was up and on the final laps, no one improved good enough to disturb the top four. Ticktum, Gunther, Wehrlein and Vandoorne completed the top four and would join Nick Cassidy, Mitch Evans, Nyck De Vries and Edoardo Mortara in the knockouts.

Following a pause in the action after two enthralling action-packed group stages, it was time to see who will start the 2024/25 round 15 London E-Prix from pole position with the knockout 1v1 duels.

In this stage, eight drivers are paired up to form the quarter final stage, with one lap for each driver in each quarter final and they have to set a better timed lap than their opponent to progress through to the semi final stage.

First up was the quarter finals which would be arranged into the following fixtures:

• Quarter Final 1: Mitch Evans vs Nyck De Vries
• Quarter Final 2: Nick Cassidy vs Edoardo Mortara
• Quarter Final 3: Pascal Wehrlein vs Maximilian Gunther
• Quarter Final 4: Stoffel Vandoorne vs Dan Ticktum

Time for the quarter finals after a pause following the two groups. Up first was the Jaguar of Round 15 London E-Prix pole sitter Mitch Evans against the Mahindra of Nyck De Vries. The duo who competed in the duels final on Saturday.

It was Evans who progressed through to the semi finals after beating De Vries by a narrow margin of 0.038. The New Zealander, just like the final yesterday, was able to beat De Vries and he awaited one of either his teammate Nick Cassidy or Edoardo Mortara to join him in semi final 1.

Edoardo Mortara had a brake mechanical issue and the Mahindra's lap was over before it even really got going. He was defeated comprehensively by Cassidy, who was able to complete his lap. He made it an all-Jaguar Semi Final 1.

The third quarter final was between the DS Penske of Maximilian Gunther and the Porsche of Pascal Wehrlein. The all-German affair was a battle for the first position in Semi Final 2. Porsche could do with a couple of extra points in their battle between Nissan for the Teams' and the Manufacturers' championship.

Great lap from Gunther and he was able to beat Wehrlein by over a tenth of a second and had to wait for one of Stoffel Vandoorne and Dan Ticktum to progress through Quarter Final 4.

Joining Gunther in Semi Final 2 was Dan Ticktum of Cupra Kiro. The driver on home soil and just like Saturday, the highest British driver in qualifying, set a 1:07.021 to progress through to the semi finals. His lap was almost a second faster than that from Vandoorne.

With the four drivers of the semi finals confirmed, the semi-final fixtures were as follows:

• Semi Final 1: Mitch Evans vs Nick Cassidy
• Semi FInal 2: Maximilian Gunther vs Dan Ticktum

Time for the semi finals and a bizarre sequence of events in Semi Final 1, when Nick Cassidy looked to have made a mistake so it seemed like he was not going to progress. Therefore, Evans backed off in the final corner but did so, way too much. Evans was eliminated and Cassidy progressed to the final.

It was later revealed that it was a tactical thing and that for Cassidy to try and catch Wehrlein, he needed a shot at the most points possible and to pick them up from where he could. Three points for pole position would have been a good start.

In the second semi-final, Dan Ticktum got through to the final with a great lap and dominated the semi-final duel against the DS Penske of Maximilian Gunther. Therefore, he progressed to the duels final and was to compete against the Jaguar of Nick Cassidy.

The final took place with Nick Cassidy going first on his lap and Dan Ticktum being delayed and then following behind. Ticktum would complete his lap last. 

It was a fantastic battle between the pair but it was a maiden Formula E pole position for Dan Ticktum. A brilliant effort and a simply perfect knockout duels for the British driver and on home soil, he took his first ever pole position in Formula E.

However, he will not start on pole due to a five-place grid penalty for a collision on Saturday so Nick Cassidy will start from pole position.

Brandon Whiteside
​Writer - F1 Journal

Jaguar's Mitch Evans set the fastest time on Sunday morning, at the London E-Prix, in the final Free Practice session of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

In the final round of he 16-round season, Evans' final flying lap in Free Practice 3 was good enough to secure the session's fastest time, in what has been a brilliant period for the Jaguar TCS Racing, after winning the last three E-Prix consecutively.

Evans was fastest in the session with a 1:06.984, which was just 0.061 faster than second place Pascal Wehrlein of the Tag Heur Porsche team. Former Formula E World Champion Stoffel Vandoorne was third for the Maserati team.

Oliver Rowland, the already crowned 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Champion was 19th out of the 21 drivers who set a lap time. It is a big day for his team Nissan as well as Porsche as both will have optimism of clinching either or both of the Teams' and Manufacturers' championships.

In the early stages of the session, drivers began to set their first amount of flying laps in the session with drivers such as Nico Mueller and Lucas Di Grassi having small stints at the top of the times.

By the end of the first 10 minutes of the session it was Mitch Evans by 0.001, who was top of the times, as he went ahead of the Porsche of Pascal Wehrlein, for Jaguar TCS Racing. A 1:09.394 for Evans.

​The first 10 minutes was concluded by the top three being separated by five thousandths of a second as Mueller moved back up to third place. This was until moments later when improvements from the Mahindra of Edoardo Mortara, who went to the top.

Mortara was up to the top of the times with a lap of 1:09.059, which was an impressive lap in the early stages of proceedings in London. Maximilian Gunther came close as his personal best, at that point in the session, saw him go second quickest.

​ Soon though, he was bumped to third by Nick Cassidy, as the winner of the last two E-Prix went to second position and closed the gap to Mortara's lap to 0.166.

Mortara's time was beaten though, by his Mahindra teammate Nyck De Vries, who secured a second place finish in Saturday's E-Prix, by just 0.019 with a time of 1:08.970. However, as the track continued to improve, the order continued to change, with Jean-Eric Vergne the latest to go top.

By the halfway point, laps had improved significantly and once again Mortara found himself at the top of the time sheets with a 1:07.392 - 0.121 of then second place Antonio Felix Da Costa.

A mechanical problem for Maserati's Jake Hughes saw his session massively disrupted and did not appear in the first half of the Free Practice 3 session giving him a disadvantage potentially, ahead of the later on qualifying session.

Eventually, after a long stint at the top for Mortara his time was beaten and it was by the Cupra Kiro of Dan Ticktum who went fastest in the session by a tenth with less than 12 minutes to go. A 1:07.270 for Ticktum, which was 0.122 faster than Mortara's lap.

Ticktum's lap was beaten too in the final 10 minutes. FIrst by Mitch Evans but with a 1:07.045, the Porsche of Pascal Wehrlein rocketed to the top of the times - 0.178 faster than Evans' lap.

However, at the end of the session, Evans returned to the top of the time sheet and finished the session fastest with a 1:06.984 - 0.061 ahead of Pascal Wehrlein, who ended the session in second. Stoffel Vandoorne was third for the Maserati team.

Following Free Practice 3, qualifying is to come which will set the grid for the final race of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

A fantastic drive from New Zealander Nick Cassidy, who on his final weekend with Jaguar TCS Racing, took victory in the round 15 London E-Prix, on Saturday evening in the England capital.

Cassidy was victorious for Jaguar TCS Racing in a stunning drive from fourth on the grid after maximising the strategy of Pit Boost and Attack Modes to take a second victory in a row and for his team Jaguar TCS Racing - it is their third race win in a row!

The New Zealander won ahead of Mahindra Racing driver Nyck De Vries, who was second ahead of German Pascal Wehrlein who completed the podium positions.

​Pole sitter Mitch Evans was not as successful as his teammate. After a poor strategy he finished in 10th place. Current Formula E World Champion, Oliver Rowland, finished 11th in the provisional result

Saturday afternoon in the UK capital meant E-Prix time for round 15 of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, the penultimate race of the 16-round season, in what has been a brilliant and memorable season.

The starting grid was determined by the day's earlier qualifying session in a dramatic knockout duels process. Following his knockout duels final, Mitch Evans started from the front of the field. 

Evans started on the front row alongside Nyck De Vries of Mahindra, who he beat in the duels final. Pascal Wehrlein and Dan Ticktum started third and fourth on the second row behind.

This was also the final race of the season where the Pit Boost was to come into effect in the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. This is where each driver had to serve a mandatory pit stop in the race as well as the two mandatory Attack Mode zones.

37 laps of racing got underway at the London Excel and it was a good start from Evans, who led into the first turns and the top three stayed as they were with De Vries in second and Wehrlein. Meanwhile, Nick Cassidy had moved up into fourth and ahead of Ticktum.

There was drama though on the first lap with Maximilian Gunther and Edoardo Mortara colliding on the run down the hill - damaging the fronr right suspension of the DS Penske of Gunther.

He came to a stop in a tight turn which caused the two NEOM McLaren cars to nearly run into him as well as the Lola Yamaha ABT of Zane Maloney. Thankfully the three drivers that were innocent bystanders ended up being able to continue in the race.

In an unrelated issue, Jake Hughes had picked up damage to his suspension too in another incident but it was only a minor issue and he made it back to the pits without causing additional hazard. Once he came into the pit lane he became the second race retirement.

The Safety Car was deployed while the DS Penske of Gunther was cleared off the circuit and this allowed the field to bunch up. The Safety Car was withdrawn at the end of lap three, with lap four being the first lap where the race was back to green flag conditions.

At the restart, Evans got away well and maintained a good gap to De Vries, with Wehrlein, Cassidy and Ticktum following behind him in the top five. 

10 laps passed and there was no drivers that had visited Attack Mode in the race, out of the 20 that still remained. Drivers had to use up eight minutes of Attack Mode, in two separate portions, as well as their mandatory Pit Boost.

Eventually, the first driver to take their Pit Boost ventured into the pit lane. That was Bird, who dropped from 18th to 20th while others began to activate their pit window. This began a chain reaction of events at the end of lap 16 with Stoffel Vandoorne, Jean-Eric Vergne, Norman Nato and Sebastian Buemi all taking their Pit Boost stops.

Lap 16 also saw the first two drivers into Attack Mode, which were David Beckmann of Cupra Kiro and Maloney of Lola Yamaha ABT. The following lap saw many take their first Attack Modes. This included: Nyck De Vries, Pascal Wehrlien, Oliver Rowland and Lucas Di Grassi.

After Vandoorne's group pitted, Nick Cassidy, Dan Ticktum, Jake Dennis, Edoardo Mortara and Antonio Felix Da Costa all took their first Pit Boost mandatory stops. Following this they all took their first Attack Modes of the race. This was the lap after that Vandoorne, Buemi, Nato and Vergne took their first Attack Modes.

Soon enough, Mitch Evans, Nico Mueller and Taylor Barnard all took their first Attack Modes of the race on lap 20, while Maloney took his mandatory Pit Boost stop.

The pit lane had a couple of laps break from cars entering to serve their Pit Boost but on lap 23, Beckmann was the latest to pit for his mandatory stop. He had rejoined in 18th and third last out of those who had pitted,

Next up on the following lap was the turn of Lucas Di Grassi and Nico Mueller to come into the pit lane with both of those heading out behind Beckmann in 18th and 19th respectively.

Pit Boost once again was popular on lap 25 and it was the main group of leaders in the race with De Vries, Evans, Wehrlein, Rowland and Barnard included in that list and pitted. The last driver to serve a mandatory pit stop was Robin Frijns on lap 26.

In terms of how the lead group rejoined, it was De Vries in the lead from Nick Cassidy and Pascal Wehrlein with Stoffel Vandoorne and Sam Bird in the top five provisionally. Sam Bird had pulled a brilliant undercut strategy to get himself from 18th when he pitted and up to fifth.

The last driver to take his final Attack Mode was Nick Cassidy, who was running in second place and he took on four minutes of Attack Mode in an attempt to get past the New Zealander of De Vries.

This was the same lap as Antonio Felix Da Costa took his second and final Attack Mode.

Using his first Attack Mode effectively, Nick Cassidy breezed by and into the race lead with over two minutes remaining and he was then able to try and pull a gap on the Mahindra driver. It was looking positive for Cassidy and the New Zealander had a great chance at victory.

Soon enough, more drivers began to take their second Attack Modes of the race with the likes of Jake Dennis, his Andretti teammate Nico Mueller and the Envision of Robin Frijns.

Frijns' Envision teammate Sebastian Buemi was in trouble from the Stewards and the Swiss driver was penalised following a Safety Car infraction earlier on in the race. He was not the only one as Taylor Barnard was also handed a penalty. Both were handed a five-second time penalty.

In terms of racing action, many were getting involved in race battles with Antonio Felix Da Costa emerging with front wing damage and he lasted two laps without coming into the pit lane but eventually he came into the pit lane.

Mitch Evans had trouble too as he was spun around near the Attack Mode area compiling an afternoon of misery after starting on pole position for the Jaguar driver. It was an incident with Jake Dennis and Dan Ticktum, where Ticktum clipped the rear of Evans and sent the New Zealander into a spin.

Ticktum was continuing to be involved in battles and the Cupra Kiro driver soon had his race ended after he found the wall while trying to make a pass on the NEOM McLaren of Sam Bird but was unsuccessful in that attempt.

Elsewhere on the race track, so many drivers had taken up their second Attack Modes when the Safety Car was called out following Ticktum's collision with the barriers and his immediate retirement.

The Safety Car was withdrawn at the end of lap 34 and it was time to go racing once again and just Robin Frijns, Sebastian Buemi, Oliver Rowland, David Beckmann and Lucas Di Grassi all having an Attack Mode remaining. Di Grassi was almost out of contention with a five-second time penalty for crossing the white line at pit exit.

There was just one added lap taking the total of laps from 37 to 38. At the restart, Cassidy got away well ahead of De Vries and Wehrlein with Stoffel Vandoorne holding position ahead of Jake Dennis in fifth.

Immediately on the restart lap, those who needed to take on their second Attack Modes, did just that and only Lucas Di Grassi had more than two minutes of deployment remaining. The Brazilian had six minutes in total.

Drama continued all the way to the end of the race with Nico Mueller losing his front wing after making contact with the wall. Thankfully, for those who did not want the drama to end, no Safety Car or Full Course Yellow was required by Race Control.

Cassidy had dominated the restart though and was able to extend the lead to over a second ahead of the Mahindra of De Vries. He had taken victory in Berlin almost two weeks prior to the Saturday round 15 E-Prix.

They took two victories in Berlin and in the first race in London they were to make it three in a row. Crossing the line first, Nick Cassidy won for Jaguar TCS Racing in London in a great drive from fourth on the grid. A win on his final weekend with the team. A truly memorable moment.

Cassidy was victorious with Nyck De Vries and Pascal Wehrlein, two former champions, completing the podium positions. Stoffel Vandoorne and Jake Dennis rounded off the top five for Maserati and Andretti respectively.

Jean-Eric Vergne, Edoardo Mortara and Robin Frijns were sixth, seventh and eighth. Norman Nato and Mitch Evans rounded off the top 10 and points scoring positions.

Race weekend in London returns on Sunday morning to start the final race day of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Free Practice 3 gets things started.

Brandon Whiteside
​Writer - F1 Journal

In a close final fight for pole position, Mitch Evans has secured a second pole position in three rounds and will start the round 15 London E-Prix from pole position, on Saturday evening.

The Jaguar TCS Racing driver, who was fighting for Formula E World Championship glory in London 12 months ago, beat Mahindra Racing's Nyck De Vries to secure three world championship points.

Evans had to beat Season 10 ABB FIA Formula E World Champion Pascal Wehrlein in the semi final, while De Vries had to defeat Dan Ticktum without the Brit losing his time to a track limits infraction.

Already crowned Formula E World Champion of 2024/25, Oliver Rowland, will go from 12th on the grid following his elimination in Group A. Big blow suffered for Nissan in their fight for Teams' and Manufcaturers' Championship glory.

Group A began the session with their 12-minute outing on the London E-Prix circuit. The 11 was to become four after the 12 minutes, with the top four progressing to the knockout duels and continuing in their fight for pole.

The green light came on at the end of the pit lane and the session began with the cars exiting the pit lane immediately, except Oliver Rowland as his engineer  instructed him to wait so he was not going to be swarmed around traffic.

In the first half of the session, there was no true representative lap times, as the drivers were building up to push laps with a lot of preparation laps before they started pushing on tours around the Excel London venue.

The first benchmark lap times were being laid down with a 1:08.955 by Nick Cassidy seeing him at the top. His lap was three tenths ahead of Maximilian Gunther in second with just one third of the session remaining. It was fairly close out on the circuit between second downwards. 

Soon enough the time in the session was up and Nick Cassidy only needed to make one improvement lap on his previous personal best, which was also the session best. He finished the session fastest for Jaguar. 

Maximilian Gunther progressed too along with Nyck De Vries and Dan Ticktum. Four different power-trains made it through to the knockout duels.

Surprise eliminations included Taylor Barnard but not quite as a big of a surprise as Oliver Rowland who could only manage sixth and the 2024/25 Formula E World Champion was out of the running.

Following Group A, attention turned to Group B.

Group B got underway for the penultimate time in the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, with four drivers already through from Group B, all of the 11 drivers in this group had aspirations of joining Nick Cassidy, Maximilian Gunther, Nyck De Vries and Dan Ticktum.

​The first lap times were set and it was Pascal Wehrlein who initially went quickest before his lap was beaten by Mitch Evans, Jean-Eric Vergne and Edoardo Mortara and it was Mortara who managed to go to the top of the times with a 1:08.968.

There were improvements from Evans and Jake Dennis on the second lap times as they were looking to strengthen their chances of progressing through to the knockout duels but both were falling short of Mortara.

Wehrlein was finding good pace though and in doing just that, the German who won his only Formula E title in London 12 months prior, went to the top of the times for the Tag Heur Porsche team. A 1:08.867 for Wehrlein.

At the end of Group B, it was Wehrlein who was quickest for the Tag Heur Porsche team. and progressed through to the knockout duels top of Group B. He was joined in the knockout duels by Evans and the Maserati duo Jake Hughes and Stoffel Vandoorne.

​Following the conclusion of the Group B session it was time for the knockout duels.

Following a pause in the action after two enthralling action-packed group stages, it was time to see who will start the 2024/25 round 15 London E-Prix from pole position with the knockout 1v1 duels.

In this stage, eight drivers are paired up to form the quarter final stage, with one lap for each driver in each quarter final and they have to set a better timed lap than their opponent to progress through to the semi final stage.

First up was the quarter finals which would be arranged into the following fixtures:

• Quarter Final 1: Nyck De Vries vs Maximilian Gunther
• Quarter Final 2: Dan Ticktum vs Nick Cassidy
• Quarter Final 3: Jake Hughes vs Mitch Evans
• Quarter Final 4: Stoffel Vandoorne vs Pascal Wehrlein

The first quarter final was between two drivers who had both participated in the Group A session, which was Nyck De Vries and Maximilian Gunther. De Vries might have been feeling slightly more confident than Gunther after he topped Free Practice 2 in the earlier session.

De Vries proved the confidence he had in his Mahindra Racing machine and the Dutch driver progressed by beating the German driver. Now De Vries had to wait to see which one of Nick Cassidy or Dan Ticktum he would face in the semi final part of the duels.

Out of the two it was the Cupra Kiro of Ticktum that progressed to complete the first semi final duel fixture.

Then it was to determine the second semi final fixture and therefore trying to book their spot first was the Maserati of Jake Hughes, who was competing against the Jaguar of Mitch Evans. Progressing through to the second semi final was Evans despite a brilliant second sector from the Brit.

The final quarter final was between the other Maserati of Stoffel Vandoorne and the sole Porsche in the knockout duels, which was German Pascal Wehrlein. Out of the duel, it was the German who beat the Belgian and completed the four to feature in the semi final stage.

The two semi-final duels shaped up as follows:

• Semi Final 1: Dan Ticktum vs Nyck De Vries
• Semi Final 2: Mitch Evans vs Pascal Wehrlein
  

The first semi final taking place was between the sole British driver remaining, Dan Ticktum, who was taking on the Mahindra of past Formula E World Champion Nyck De Vries. Booking a place in the final was De Vries, in what was a very close duel. Just 0.009 between the pair after both completed their laps.

Joining De Vries in the duels final was to be one of Mitch Evans and Pascal Wehrlein. Two drivers who battled for the Formula E title 12 months ago were instead fighting over a place in the duels final.

It was Evans who beat Wehrlein to progress through to the final. The important points Porsche need for the Teams' and Manufacturers' Championships will need to come in the day's E-Prix.

This left the final between Mitch Evans and Nyck De Vries. Jaguar TCS Racing vs Mahindra Racing respectively. 

In a very close contest between the pair it was the Jaguar of Evans, who took his second Formula E Pole Position in three rounds, to continue his team's fantastic end to the campaign. He managed to do enough to beat the pacey Mahindra of Nyck De Vries.

He will start the Round 15 London E-Prix from pole position with the Dutchman alongside him on the front row.

Brandon Whiteside
​Writer - F1 Journal

Good lap from Mahindra Racing's Nyck De Vries who was fastest at the start of Round 15 race day at the London E-Prix, in Saturday morning's Free Practice 2.

De Vries was flying for Mahindra throughout the early stages of the session and the Mahindra team looked to have good pace with Edoardo Mortara looking strong throughout the session too. Could either be on for a surprise pole position later on?

The Dutch driver was fastest ahead of the Jaguar of Mitch Evans, who led the time for the latter stages but ended the session in second. Dan Tictum of Cupra Kiro was third fastest ahead of Season 10 Formula E champion Pascal Wehrlein and Jake Hughes, who rounded off the top five.

Already crowned 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Champion Oliver Rowland finished 13th in a big week for Nissan in their hunt for the Teams' and Manufacturers' championship fight with the Porsche team.

The penultimate race day of the 2024/25 season began with Free Practice 2, which got the on-track action underway in the British capital at 10:00 local time. A strong showing for Pascal Wehrlein on Friday saw him top the opening session of the weekend - Free Practice 1.

In the first 10 minutes of Free Practice 2 it was Nick Cassidy of Jaguar, who led the way for Jaguar TCS Racing ahead of Nyck De Vries. A 1:09.471 was the early benchmark lap time in the first quarter of the session

Edoardo Mortara had time at the top of the time sheets and at the exact halfway point he led the field at the top of the times, with a lap faster than that by Wehrlein in FP!. A 1:08.014 for Mortara, which was three tenths clear of Taylor Barnard and Sam Bird, who were second and third.

Mortara's lap was beaten though by Bird, Nico Mueller and Dan Ticktum who went fastest of the session for Cupra Kiro with a 1:07.929. Mueller's lap that had him second was just 0.011 behind Ticktum.

MItch Evans though was next to go to the top of the times with just over 10 minutes remaining. The Jaguar TCS Racing team shone in Berlin with taking two victories and both of their drivers, Evans and Cassidy, had been fastest at times during the session.

A 1:07:564 for Evans was closely challenged by the Cupra Kiro of Ticktum and by 0.008 the Brit missed out on going to the top of the time sheets in Free Practice 2. Jake Hughes elevated himself to third but was three tenths back after one lap.

Hughes on his next lap though was flying but was 0.062 away from the lap of Evans after he was compromised in the final sector of the race track. 

Evans had his lap beaten before the end and by 0.043, Nyck De Vries emerged to the top of the time sheets for Mahindra Racing with a 1:07.521. Two minutes remained at the point of the Dutchman going fastest.

At the end of the session it was De Vries fastest in the final Free Practice 2 session of the 2024/25 season ahead of Evans and Ticktum who completed the top three. Wehrlein was fourth ahead of Maserati duo Jake Hughes and Stoffel Vandoorne, who were fifth and sixth.

​Nico Mueller, Edoardo Mortara, Antonio Felix Da Costa and Sam Bird rounded off the top 10 of Free Practice 2.

Qualifying and the round 15 London E-Prix to come later on through Saturday.

Brandon Whiteside
​Writer - F1 Journal

A strong final lap, in a disrupted Free Practice 1 session on Friday, from Pascal Wehrlein, saw the Porsche driver end the session fastest in the opening session at the London E-Prix weekend.

Wehrlein laid down a 1:08.026, which was his final lap of the session for the Tag Heur Porsche team and he was almost three tenths of a second away from the highest of the six British drivers Jake Dennis of Andretti.

Round 14 Berlin E-Prix winner Nick Cassidy was third but was noted for a late impeding accident at the final corner, after prior warning seconds before from the Formula E Race Director Marek Hanaczewski. Sam Bird and Norman Nato completed the top five.

Now Formula E World Champion Oliver Rowland finished in 16th in his first session as world champion, on home soil. His team Nissan are in a big fight for Teams' and Manufacturers' glory with Porsche this weekend.

40 minutes of Free Practice got underway on Friday afternoon at London Excel with the teams and drivers heading onto the circuit almost immediately and they were met with the near immediate Full Course Yellow test, which is carried out at the start of every race weekend.

After a brief Full Course Yellow test, Race Director Marek Hanaczewski waved play on, and green flags flew once again with drivers able to continue at green flag conditions.

​Jaguar had dominated Berlin, by taking victory in both races with their drivers Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy taking one each. After the first quarter of the session it was Cassidy, who led a Jaguar 1-2 with Pascal Wehrlein provisionally third.

Soon, the red flag was brought out after Lucas Di Grassi came to a stop with an electrical issue and therefore the Lola Yamaha ABT driver was going no further. The system shutdown meant the red flag was called upon and the Brazilian's car was towed back to pit lane.

The clock began to tick down with Nyck De Vries having gone top just prior to the Di Grassi issue with Jake Hughes having jumped up to second position, just behind the Mahindra. De Vries had returned to Formula E, following being absent in Berlin, due to World Endurance Championship duties.

Both De Vries and Nissan's Norman Nato were occupied with the Six Hours of Sao Paulo in World Endurance and were replaced by Brazilian duo Felipe Drugovich and Sergio Sette Camara respectively. It was time well spent for Nato as we won with Cadillac Hertz Team Jota.

16:20 local time in the British capital, and the Free Practice 1 session was back underway following the recovery of Di Grassi's Lola Yamaha ABT. The session was extended by eight minutes before the restart.

Once the session got back underway, laps were once again beginning to be set. Envision;s Robin Frijns and Cupra Kiro's Dan Ticktum were among major improvements with Frijns going to the top of the time.

The times began to fall though as the track was ramping up with Nick Cassidy returning to the top of the times with a 1:10.510 as Frijns dropped to second but ahead of Jake Dennis, who was third for the time being.

Ticktum was next to have a stint at the top of the times though and went quickest but it was only a small stint as 2023/24 champion Pascal Wehrlein went to the top for the Tag Heur Porsche team. Wehrlein took the title in the final race of the season in London, 12 months ago.

Evans was next to go top as Wehrlein went third. With 20 minutes to go, Evans led the way!

Robin Frijns with a 1:08.777 was next to go to the top of the times and was fastest by 1.138  for Envision Racing but even he did not stay quickest for very long with the Andretti of Dennis going first.

16 minutes remaining and once again Evans was fastest with the lap to beat at a 1:08.538. Stoffel Vandoorne of Maserati improved with his latest attempt to go second - 0.066 behind the Jaguar and 0.001 ahead of Dennis.

Lap times were continuously set with the drivers looking to get as many laps in and as much track time as possible but with eight minutes to go in the session, the red flag was back once again.

Remarkably, the car of Di Grassi was able to get out on circuit once again, but the problem that was fixed and had to led to another one and the Brazilian's session came to an abrupt end once again.

​The session was resumed but no more time was added onto the end of the session so the drivers had whatever time was left to improve their lap times and get their final miles into the car to lift their confidence with their machines on the London E-Prix circuit.

Two minutes to go and the drivers began to set their final couple of laps in the session and soon enough the chequered flag was out and Free Practice 1 in London had reached his conclusion.

Despite being impeded on his penultimate lap by Nick Cassidy, Pascal Wehrlein's final lap was good enough to finish the session fastest with a 1:08.026, which was nearly three tenths faster than Jake Dennis in second. Nick Cassidy was third for Jaguar.

Sam Bird was fourth ahead of Nissan's Norman Nato, who rounded off the top five. Edoardo Mortara was sixth ahead of the Cupra Kiro of Dan Ticktum while Mitch Evans, Antonio Felix Da Costa and Stoffel Vandoorne rounded off the top 10.

London E-Prix action returns on Saturday morning for Free Practice 2, which will begin the action on race day for round 15 of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

Brandon Whiteside
​Writer - F1 Journal

The 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship will reach its conclusion this coming weekend, with a double-round in London, to round off what has been a memorable season.

With two rounds to spare, we already have our Formula E champion, with Oliver Rowland being able to turn up at his home event as Formula E World Champion. Rowland has become just the second ever British driver to win the ABB FIA Formula E World Drivers' Championship title.

To complete Season 11, the first open-wheel all-electric FIA affiliated world championship, will show up at one of the most unique circuits in world motorsport, with half of the London E-Prix circuit being indoor.

Despite the Drivers' Championship having been sewn up last time in the German capital of Berlin, there is still a Teams' Championship and a Manufacturers' Championship battle to be decided with Nissan and Porsche going head-to-head over both crowns.

This will be a memorable and emotional weekend for Jaguar TCS Racing, who will bid farewell to their Team Principal James Barclay, who is leaving Formula E to lead the McLaren World Endurance Championship Hypercar project. In addition, as confirmed this week, Nick Cassidy will leave Jaguar to go onto new adventures for season 12.

​ Based at Excel London, the London E-Prix circuit offers different tests and challenges for the 22 drivers in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. 20 turns and a distance of 2.09km makes up a lap of this iconic circuit.

It is set to be a memorable weekend with racing on Saturday and Sunday. The weekend begins with Free Practice 1 on Friday.

Brandon Whiteside
​Writer - F1 Journal

After a fourth-place finish at the round 14 Berlin E-Prix, Oliver Rowland is the 2024/5 ABB FIA Formula E World Champion, following the race on Sunday afternoon.

Before the final two rounds of season 11 in London, Rowland has picked up the championship, with him now able to have the joys of visiting his home event as the year's already crowned Drivers' Champion.

In terms of the Round 14 Berlin E-Prix itself, a stunning drive from 20th on the grid from Nick Cassidy, as he made it two wins at the Tempelhof circuit for Jaguar across the weekend. Also great drives through the field from Jake Dennis and Jean-Eric Vergne who ended up on the podium.

Rowland took the crown after pole sitter Wehrlein had a difficult race, as the German lost the championship fight on home soil, following him having struggled to manage his energy consumption effectively.

The British driver becomes just the second from his nation to win the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, following in the footsteps of 2022/23 champion Jake Dennis.

Brandon Whiteside
Writer - F1 Journal

A stunning and dominant qualifying from reigning world champion Pascal Wehrlein, who will start his home event from pole position, on Sunday, at the Berlin E-Prix.

Wehrlein shone throughout qualifying after topping his group and winning all of his duels in dominant style too. A fantastic final lap for Wehrlein, in a knockout duels session where all laps registered were under the one minute mark.

The reigning Formula E world champion took pole, for Porsche's first at the Berlin Tempelhof Airport Circuit, and beat Cupra Kiro's British superstar Dan Ticktum with a gap of 0.158 between the pair. Wehrlein's pole lap was a 57.850.

Oliver Rowland, the championship leader, ended qualifying in third after making it through to the knockout duels semi finals but with a five-place grid penalty he will start eighth. He has picked up the penalty after a collision with Stoffel Vandoorne in the Round 13 E-Prix, on Saturday.

Rowland was eliminated in the semi finals by Ticktum, while Wehrlein progressed to the final after beating Porsche teammate Antonio Felix Da Costa.

The first group session began with the drivers heading out onto the Berlin Tempelhof Circuit but it was only 10 out of 11 as Lucas Di Grassi's crash had left extensive damage at the end of Free Practice 3 that was unable to be repaired in time for qualifying.

Oliver Rowland needed a strong qualifying with the five-place grid penalty he had received for causing a collision with Stoffel Vandoorne in the round 13 E-Prix. He went top in the very early stages but with the track progressing constantly, he did not stay top for very long.

At the halfway point in the session it was a DS Penske 1-2 with Jean-Eric Vergne leading teammate Maximilian Gunther but once again, the times were progressing and laps were getting faster.

Four Brits ended up beating the lap by Vergne, which included Jake Hughes, Dan Ticktum, Jake Dennis and Taylor Barnard while the only other Brit was Oliver Rowland, who was finding time but only little bits. He needed more though.

With three minutes of the session remaining it was a Maserati 1-2 with Stoffel Vandoorne leading Jake Hughes but with improvements from Gunther then Rowland, Hughes was bumped to fourth.

It was getting into the final minute of the session and Jake Hughes was pushing hard, as was everyone as all the drivers looking to progress were needing to improve as the ending was approaching but Jake Hughes found the wall.

It was a driver error for Hughes with disaster for his fellow Brit, Oliver Rowland, who looked like he was out of qualifying in fifth but with the Maserati driver causing a red flag, Hughes had his best lap deleted. This bumped Rowland up to fourth and he would end up progressing to the duels.

Rowland progressed along with fellow Brits Ticktum and Barnard, as well as Stoffel Vandoorne who was fastest in Group A. All four awaited the other four drivers to make up the duels, which would be determined with Group B.

11:46 was the start time for Group B following the slight delay to proceedings, after Hughes' crash at the end of Group A required the removal of the broken Maserati and the barriers needed reshaping. 

However, the Group B session did eventually get underway with all 11 participants being able to head onto the Berlin Tempelhof circuit, in an attempt to try and book themselves a place in the first knockout duels of the weekend.

Mitch Evans took pole position on Saturday, in the group qualifying, after the knockout phase was cancelled due to the wet weather causing disruption and delay. However, he was once again quick and in the early stages was up at the top of the time sheets.

The track was properly drying still after the rain had disappeared from the early Sunday morning skies in the German capital with Antonio Felix Da Costa moments before Envision Racing made it a 1-2 with Robin Frijns ahead of Sebastian Buemi.

However, even their times were beaten in no time at all, with Sam Bird doing so first and then Edoardo Mortara who went top for Mahindra Racing. Da Costa was back up at the top though, which was more evidence of how much the track was progressing in terms of laps.

Times that were being set were clocked in under a minute. Pascal Wehrlein was a driver who took a while to get a contending lap time set. However, when he did so, he did not mess about.

A 59.048 for Wehrlein put him four tenths clear of the rest. It became three tenths when Da Costa improved to second, to make it a Porsche 1-2 with two minutes remaining in the session.

Soon the time was up and it was Da Costa who took the flag first and his session was completed with a provisional second place but he would stay there and progressed to the duels along with teammate Wehrlein, who was fastest.

Robin Frijns and Nico Mueller joined the two Porsche drivers in the knockout duels, as the hunt for pole position took the next step towards its climax.

Following a pause in the action after two enthralling action-packed group stages, it was time to see who will start the 2024/25 round 12 Jakarta E-Prix from pole position with the knockout 1v1 duels.

In this stage, eight drivers are paired up to form the quarter final stage, with one lap for each driver in each quarter final and they have to set a better timed lap than their opponent to progress through to the semi final stage.

The four quarter final match-ups were as follows:

• Quarter Final 1: Dan Ticktum vs Taylor Barnard
• Quarter Final 2: Oliver Rowland vs Stoffel Vandoorne
• Quarter Final 3: Robin Frijns vs Antonio Felix Da Costa
• Quarter Final 4: Nico Mueller vs Pascal Wehrlein

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The first quarter final was a battle of the Brits, which was between Dan Ticktum and Taylor Barnard. The Cupra Kiro vs the NEOM McLaren in a hunt for the first place of four up for grabs, in the duels semi finals.

It was the Cupra Kiro of Ticktum who was on a lap first and it was Barnard who would follow him round. The rain had started to fall which made the track surface more greasy so it was in the unknown as to what would unravel.

It was Ticktum though who progressed dominantly so by six tenths of a second and for the first time in his Formula E career, Barnard was beaten at the quarter final duels stage.

Up next in the quarter final duels was championship leader Oliver Rowland, who was taking on Stoffel Vandoorne who finished fastest in Group A with the Nissan of Rowland being tasked with setting the lap first.

It was the championship leader Rowland who progressed with over three tenths of a second the gap between he and Vandoorne once both had completed their lap times. A great and important win for Rowland.

Next up in quarter final 3 was the Envision of Robin Frijns and the Porsche of Antonio Felix Da Costa with a very narrow victory for Da Costa and he progressed by just eight hundredths of a second (0.080). The Portuguese driver after a difficult Free Practice 3 was into the semi finals.

The final quarter saw the teammate of Da Costa, Pascal Wehrlein, go up against the Andretti of Nico Mueller and it was a one-sided battle and the reigning champion breezed through with a 0.618 advantage over the Andretti. A phenomenal lap.

Eight drivers became four and it was time for the semi final stage of the duels and the winner of each semi final, would end up taking their place in the final and the one-shot lap for pole position.

The semi final duels were as follows;

• Semi Final 1: Dan Ticktum vs Oliver Rowland
• Semi Final 2: Antonio Felix Da Costa vs Pascal Wehrlein

Just like the first quarter final duel, the first semi final duel was a battle of two Brits with Dan Ticktum, winner of Quarter Final 1, taking on Oliver Rowland, who won Quarter Final 2.

Dan Ticktum was the first driver to complete the lap and this was going to be close with both drivers having set identical lap times in the opening Free Practice session of the entire weekend. It was Cupra Kiro vs Nissan.

Ticktum laid down a benchmark lap of a 58.051 and that was good enough to progress through to the duels final after beating Rowland by just over a tenth of a second . The tenth came down to a run through the puddle in the latter stages of the lap.

The Semi Final 2 was between the two Porsche drivers with Antonio Felix Da Costa and Pascal Wehrlein. Despite a benchmark lap of a 58.404. there was nothing stopping Wehrlein and once again with a dominant 57.756! Incredible from the reigning Formula E world champion.

The duels final was Britain vs Germany and it was consisting of Dan Ticktum of Cupra Kiro, who was up against the rapid Pascal Wehrlein.

Dan Ticktum was up first on his lap with Pascal Wehrlein following him behind. Despite Ticktum having mostly a tidy lap, there was nothing to stop Wehrlein who achieved pole position on home soil.

A 57.850 for Wehrlein and the reigning world champion will start the round 14 Berlin E-Prix from pole position, on Sunday afternoon.

Brandon Whiteside
​Writer - F1 Journal