Pascal Wehrlein survived a dramatic final day at ExCeL London to become a two-time ABB FIA Formula E World Champion, securing the 2025/26 Drivers’ title by just five points over Jake Dennis.
The Porsche driver entered Sunday’s season finale with the championship lead after a near-perfect Saturday in London transformed the title fight, and although the final race did not go according to plan, Wehrlein did enough across the weekend to leave the British capital as World Champion.
Saturday had proved crucial.
Wehrlein took pole position before converting it into victory in Round 16, collecting the maximum points available and moving five points clear of Dennis heading into the final race of the season.
That left everything to play for on Sunday.
Nine drivers had arrived in London with a mathematical chance of becoming World Champion, but by the time the final race began, the fight had narrowed significantly.
Wehrlein started from the second row but found himself caught in a tense and unpredictable race as his championship rivals attempted to overturn his advantage.
While Taylor Barnard went on to claim his maiden Formula E victory at the front, Wehrlein’s attention was firmly on the championship calculations.
Despite failing to score in the finale, the points accumulated across the season, and particularly his maximum haul from Saturday, proved enough.
Wehrlein ended the campaign with 169 points, five ahead of Dennis on 164, with Jaguar TCS Racing’s Mitch Evans also remaining in the title conversation until the closing stages.
The championship makes Wehrlein only the second driver in Formula E history to win the Drivers’ title twice.
He joins Jean-Éric Vergne, who won consecutive championships in Seasons Four and Five, in the exclusive group of multiple Formula E World Champions.
For Porsche, Wehrlein’s title added another major honour to a season in which the German manufacturer had already secured the Manufacturers’ World Championship.
The result also brought the GEN3 era to a close with Wehrlein back on top of the Drivers’ Championship.
Formula E now turns towards GEN4 and a new chapter for the all-electric series, but the final GEN3 season will be remembered as the campaign in which Wehrlein joined one of Formula E’s most exclusive clubs as a two-time World Champion.
