Pascal Wehrlein is Formula E champion again, and he did it finishing 14th
Sometimes the mark of a champion is not winning the last race, but surviving it
Pascal Wehrlein did not cross the line first in London. He crossed it 14th, out of the points, on the most important afternoon of his season. And it did not matter, because the work had already been done. The German held his nerve where others cracked, and in doing so sealed his second Formula E world championship for Porsche. Titles are won over a season, not a single lap, and Wehrlein just proved it in the coolest way possible.
How the title was won
The 2025-26 ABB FIA Formula E season came down to the London E-Prix on 16 August, exactly as the standings had teed up. Wehrlein finished the campaign on 169 points, five clear of Jaguar's Jake Dennis on 164, despite scoring nothing in the finale itself. Across the year he racked up three wins, six podiums and four pole positions, a season strong enough that one quiet Saturday could not undo it. His teammate Nico Muller ended ninth overall on 102 points.
Wehrlein summed up the day simply, saying he was proud of how the team executed the weekend and did not crack under pressure. On a track where the title could easily have slipped away, holding station was exactly the right call.
A bittersweet day for Porsche
For Porsche the result was not a clean sweep. The drivers' crown and the manufacturers' championship, which the brand retained with 498 points, both went its way, but the teams' title slipped through its fingers. That went to Jaguar TCS Racing, who edged the TAG Heuer Porsche squad 288 points to 271. Two championships out of three is a fine haul, yet losing the teams' battle to the same marque whose driver Wehrlein just beat adds a little edge to the celebrations.
Into the history books
The bigger picture is Wehrlein's place in the sport. With this second title he becomes only the second driver to win the Formula E championship twice since the series began in 2014, joining Jean-Eric Vergne in an exclusive club of two. In a category defined by close, unpredictable racing and constant lead changes, winning it once is hard enough. Doing it twice marks Wehrlein out as one of the definitive drivers of electric racing's first era.
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There is something very satisfying about a title won on maturity rather than heroics. It would have been more cinematic for Wehrlein to charge through the field and win the finale, but championships are decided by drivers who know when not to take the risk, and finishing 14th to bank a five-point cushion is a masterclass in exactly that. This is the calm, calculating side of racing that rarely makes the highlight reel but almost always decides the trophy.
For Porsche, two of the three big prizes is a strong return and further proof of how seriously it takes electric competition, even as the road-car world wobbles on its EV timelines. Losing the teams' title to Jaguar will sting, and it sets up a rivalry worth watching next season. But the headline is the man in the number one car. Wehrlein is a two-time world champion now, and he earned it the hard, unglamorous, thoroughly convincing way.
