2024–25 Formula E World Championship

Team changes

British motorsport brand Lola announced its return to top-level motorsport for the first time since the 2006 Champ Car World Series. Lola entered Formula E developing its own powertrain in cooperation with Yamaha.^[31] This partnership supplies powertrains to ABT, who had previously used Mahindra powertrains but ended that affiliation,^[18] and the team entered the season as Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team.^[32]

After just a single year running, ERT Formula E Team was acquired by investment firm The Forest Road Company. The team rebranded as Kiro Race Co and raced under an American license. The team also ceased to be its own manufacturer, forming an agreement with Porsche to use its 2023–24 powertrain instead.^[6][33] Ahead of the São Paulo ePrix weekend, Cupra entered into a partnership with Kiro Race Co to enter the season as Cupra Kiro.^[7] Cupra previously partnered with Abt in the last two seasons of the championship.

Driver changes

Season 8 champion Stoffel Vandoorne ended his contract with DS Penske after two seasons and joined Maserati MSG Racing in place of Maximilian Günther, who signed with DS Penske, thereby completing a driver swap between the two Stellantis-owned outfits.^[34][13][5] Jehan Daruvala's contract at Maserati was also not renewed, with the team instead signing McLaren driver Jake Hughes.^[35][36][5] To replace Hughes, McLaren promoted reserve and developmental driver Taylor Barnard to a full-time drive.^[37]

Andretti driver Norman Nato left the team after a single season to return to the Nissan Formula E Team, with whom he last raced in 2023, replacing Sacha Fenestraz, who left the team after two seasons to return to Super Formula with Team TOM'S.^[22][38][39] Nico Müller left ABT after two seasons with the team to replace Nato at Andretti.^[40][26] Müller's replacement at ABT was announced to be Barbadian Formula 2 driver and former Andretti reserve driver Zane Maloney, who made his Formula E debut, thereby becoming the first Barbadian driver to compete in the series.^[20]

New team Cupra Kiro signed Porsche reserve driver David Beckmann for his full-time debut alongside Dan Ticktum.^[9] He replaced Sérgio Sette Câmara, who was hired by Nissan Formula E Team as reserve driver.^[41]

Location changes

• The Misano ePrix was removed from the calendar, leaving Italy without a race in Season 11.^[43]
• The Saudi Arabian rounds were relocated from the Riyadh Street Circuit to the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, hosting the first ever Jeddah ePrix.^[44]
• The Miami ePrix was reintroduced to the calendar, the first race in Florida since 2015, replacing the Portland ePrix. The event will move from the Biscayne Bay Street Circuit to the Homestead–Miami Speedway, which previously hosted IMSA GT Championship, the one-off Ferrari Winter Series for developmental single-seater drivers, and currently hosts numerous club races. It is unknown which version of the circuit will be used (with or without the banking). Regardless, at 2.18 miles (3.51 km) (without banking) or 2.27 miles (3.65 km) (with banking), it will be the longest Formula E circuit in history. ^[45]
• The Monaco ePrix will become a double header for the first time in the race's history.^[46] The Tokyo ePrix will also be a double-header race.^[47]
• The Jakarta ePrix will return to the calendar, after a cancellation in season 10 due to elections in the country.^[47]

ePrix locations

Jeddah

Mexico City

São Paulo

Tokyo

Miami

Monaco

Berlin

Shanghai

Jakarta

London

Location of ePrix in season 11
(: ePrix - Single Race)
(: ePrix - Double Header)

Technical regulations

The championship introduced an upgrade to its Gen3 ruleset, called Gen3 Evo.^[48] The updated ruleset features a new chassis package featuring a more robust front wing and new Hankook tyres aimed at providing increased grip. The new car also contains an active front power train to be used in qualifying, the race start and during attack mode, increasing acceleration and power output.^[49]

Quick-charging pit stops will be introduced from the Jeddah E-Prix onwards, more than two years after the initial announcement of the feature.^[50] The new "Pit Boost", planned to be used in all double-header race weekends of the season requires all drivers to make a mandatory pitstop taking around 30 seconds, during which the cars' batteries will be recharged by around 10%. This pitstop will have to be taken in a certain window in the race, chosen by the race officials prior to the event. No other work on the cars is allowed to be carried out during the quick-charging pitstops, and only one car per team will be able to take this stop.^[51]

Sporting regulations

The Manufacturers' Trophy introduced in season ten became a World Championship title alongside the Teams' and Drivers' titles. Points are awarded in a similar manner to the Teams' title and are based on the performance of each manufacturer's two highest-scoring cars in every race.^[4]

Pre-season

Pre-season testing was set to take place at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia from 4–7 November 2024, before flooding in the area forced the championship to postpone and relocate the test to Circuito del Jarama on 5–8 November 2024.^[52] António Félix da Costa, driving for Porsche, was fastest in the first session, with Nissan and Jaguar forced to sit out as penalty for exceeding the cost cap in the 2022-23 season.^[53] Jaguar and Mitch Evans finished the test with the fastest time overall.^[54] An all-female test, the first of its kind in an FIA-sanctioned championship, concluded this test on 8 November.^[55][56] 2024 F1 Academy champion Abbi Pulling posted the fastest time, driving for Nissan.^[57]

Opening rounds

The season began with the São Paulo ePrix. The reigning champion, Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein took pole position, beating Nissan's Oliver Rowland in the final duel.^[58] An update to attack mode and softer tyres meant that drivers were able to gain many positions while in the 350kW power mode, with Nick Cassidy using it to take an early lead.^[59][60] However, the race was plagued with retirements, as well as two red flags, the latter of which was caused by Wehrlein's car flipping upside down after a collision with Cassidy.^[61] Having started last on the grid due to a brake issue in qualifying, Mitch Evans stayed out of trouble and overtook the entire field to win the race for Jaguar. António Félix da Costa and Taylor Barnard also finished on the podium, for Porsche and McLaren respectively. Barnard became the youngest driver to podium in a Formula E race.^[62]

Next was the Mexico City ePrix. Porsche locked out the front row, with Pascal Wehrlein ahead of António Félix da Costa.^[63] Wehrlein led for the first 15 laps before being overtaken by Jake Dennis, who was using attack mode. He and the two Porsche cars battled for the podium positions for most of the race.^[64] There was a late safety car to recover the car of David Beckmann following a collision with Lucas di Grassi.^[65] On the restart, Oliver Rowland used attack mode to take the lead of the race before another safety car period, this time for Mitch Evans, who collided with Nico Müller.^[66] Rowland held off an attacking da Costa to win the race for Nissan, with da Costa and Wehrlein rounding out the podium, and Dennis finishing fourth.^[67] Back-to-back podiums meant that da Costa took an early lead in the championship. Despite the two safety cars, there were no added laps, resulting in Edoardo Mortara, Sébastien Buemi and Lucas di Grassi receiving time penalties for not completing their attack mode activations.^[68]

The first double header of the season was the Jeddah ePrix, the first Formula E races to take place on a shortened version of the Jeddah Corniche Circuit. The weekend began with a rookie free practice session, where Formula 2 driver Kush Maini drove the fastest time for Mahindra.^[69] Race one was the debut of the new 'pit boost' format. Maximilian Günther started from pole and led until a safety car was called to recover debris from the car of António Félix da Costa after a collision with Nico Müller.^[70] Günther gave up the lead to Oliver Rowland in order to save energy, and Rowland controlled the race after the pitstops.^[71] Pit boost's introduction was not flawless, with Dan Ticktum's car requiring a reset, dropping him out of a top-10 position.^[72] Towards the end of the race, Rowland began to struggle for energy, allowing Günther to overtake him in the final lap and win the race. A second-place finish for Rowland meant he took the championship lead, ahead of da Costa by four points.^[73]

Race 2 followed the regular no-stop format. Taylor Barnard became the youngest polesitter in Formula E, starting from the front row alongside mentor Oliver Rowland.^[74] On the opening lap, championship contenders Maximilian Günther and António Félix da Costa collided, with both drivers retiring from the race.^[75] Barnard led the early part of the race before being overtaken by Rowland on lap 9.^[76] Robin Frijns took the lead on lap 12, but was lower on energy than the following cars, allowing Rowland to retake the lead two laps later. Barnard and Jake Dennis also briefly took the lead using their attack modes, but Rowland saved his final six minutes of attack mode until late in the race.^[77] He won the race with a six second gap over Barnard and Jake Hughes, extending his championship lead to 17 points.^[78]

E-Prix

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Round	E-Prix	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Winning manufacturer	Report
1	São Paulo	Pascal Wehrlein	David Beckmann[d]	Mitch Evans	Jaguar TCS Racing	Jaguar	Report
2	Mexico City	Pascal Wehrlein	Sébastien Buemi[e]	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E Team	Nissan	Report
3	Jeddah	Maximilian Günther	Maximilian Günther	Maximilian Günther	DS Penske	Stellantis	Report
4		Taylor Barnard	Sam Bird[f]	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E Team	Nissan
5	Miami						Report
6	Monaco						Report
7
8	Tokyo						Report
9
10	Shanghai						Report
11
12	Jakarta						Report
13	Berlin						Report
14
15	London						Report
16
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Drivers' Championship

Points were awarded using the following structure:

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Pos. Driver SAO MEX JED MIA MCO TKO SHA JKT BER LDN Pts 1 Oliver Rowland 14 1 2 1 68 2 Taylor Barnard 3 14 3 2 51 3 António Félix da Costa 2 2 9 Ret 39 4 Maximilian Günther 11 6 1 Ret 37 5 Jake Hughes Ret 10 5 3 27 6 Jean-Éric Vergne 9 5 6 7 26 7 Mitch Evans 1 Ret 19 Ret 25 8 Pascal Wehrlein Ret 3 15 8 25 9 Jake Dennis Ret 4 20 4 25 10 Nyck de Vries 6 8 4 13 24 11 Edoardo Mortara 5 19 7 10 17 12 Sam Bird 4 18 8 12 16 13 Stoffel Vandoorne 10 7 10 6 16 14 Nick Cassidy 15 12 11 5 10 15 Sébastien Buemi 7 17 12 19 6 16 Dan Ticktum 8 16 18 9 6 17 Nico Müller Ret 9 Ret 11 2 18 Robin Frijns DNS 11 13 14 0 19 Zane Maloney 12 15 16 18 0 20 Norman Nato 13 13 17 15 0 21 David Beckmann NC Ret 14 17 0 22 Lucas di Grassi Ret 20 DSQ 16 0 Pos. Driver SAO MEX JED MIA MCO TKO SHA JKT BER LDN Pts Source:[28]

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Teams' Championship

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Pos.	Team	No.	SAO	MEX	JED		MIA	MCO		TKO		SHA		JKT	BER		LDN		Pts
1	Nissan Formula E Team	17	13	13	17	15													68
		23	14	1	2	1
2	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	5	3	14	3	2													67
		8	4	18	8	12
3	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	1	Ret	3	15	8													64
		13	2	2	9	Ret
4	DS Penske	7	11	6	1	Ret													63
		25	9	5	6	7
5	Maserati MSG Racing	2	10	7	10	6													43
		55	Ret	10	5	3
6	Mahindra Racing	21	6	8	4	13													41
		48	5	19	7	10
7	Jaguar TCS Racing	9	1	Ret	19	Ret													35
		37	15	12	11	5
8	Andretti Formula E	27	Ret	4	20	4													27
		51	Ret	9	Ret	11
9	Envision Racing	4	DNS	11	13	14													6
		16	7	17	12	19
10	Cupra Kiro	3	NC	Ret	14	17													6
		33	8	16	18	9
11	Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team	11	Ret	20	DSQ	16													0
		22	12	15	16	18
Pos.	Team	No.	SAO	MEX	JED		MIA	MCO		TKO		SHA		JKT	BER		LDN		Pts
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Manufacturers' Championship

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 will not appear in the standings and the points will be allocated to the following Manufacturer’s car eligible to score points. Points allocated for the driver obtaining the Pole Position and the Fastest Lap will not be counted.^[80]

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Pos.	Manufacturer	SAO	MEX	JED		MIA	MCO		TKO		SHA		JKT	BER		LDN		Pts
1	Nissan	3	1	2	1													130
		4	9	3	2
2	Stellantis	9	4	1	3													83
		10	5	5	6
3	Porsche	2	2	7	4													80
		8	3	10	7
4	Jaguar	1	7	8	5													58
		7	8	9	10
5	Mahindra	5	6	4	8													52
		6	11	6	9
6	Lola-Yamaha	11	10	11	11													1
		Ret	12	DSQ	12
Pos.	Driver	SAO	MEX	JED		MIA	MCO		TKO		SHA		JKT	BER		LDN		Pts
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