Cassidy closes out Formula E season with decisive London E-Prix sweep

Nick Cassidy destroyed the field in the final race of the Formula E season in London to win by 13.581s – his second win in as many days – moving both him and Jaguar TCS Racing up to second in the drivers’ and teams’ championships.

Even so, it was Porsche that claimed teams' and manufacturers’ honors as Nissan’s bid to overturn them ended with three of the four cars powered by the Japanese manufacturer failing to finish.

Cassidy started from pole – following a grid penalty for top qualifier Dan Ticktum – and led every lap. Teammate Mitch Evans finished second on the road, but was demoted to fifth after receiving a five-second penalty for speeding during an early full course yellow.

Evans' penalty promoted Nyck de Vries to second. He had an eventful race, after starting from fifth on the grid he was up to second by lap 5 when he got past Mitch Evans – a move that also allowed Oliver Rowland to sneak by. Four laps later the pair had a coming together through Turn 14 which earned de Vries a driving standards warning.

Evans found his way past both before a full course yellow arrived a lap later for a collision between Norman Nato in the other Nissan and Taylor Barnard in the Nissan-powered NEOM McLaren, and it was during that which Evans’ got his infraction. Cassidy has taken his first Attack Mode power boost just before that, but being only for two minutes, the loss of it wasn’t as severe as it could have been.

The race resumed after only a lap but it was neutralized again five laps later, this time with a safety car as Rowland and Nico Mueller collided through turns one and three.

The safety car peeled in at the end of lap 19 and Evans wasted no time in getting back by de Vries for second. He took his first Attack Mode a lap later, on lap 21 and joined Cassidy in the activation zone for his last on lap 27 – but with Cassidy still having six minutes to use as opposed to Evans’ four, Evans was unable to mount a challenge.

While Evans pleaded with his team for help from Cassidy to get a tow to pull away from de Vries, Cassidy was running his own race, building his lead by more than a second a lap towards the end of the race and adding fastest lap to boot.

Sebastien Buemi was classified third, despite starting 15th on the grid, executing a measured drive to stay out of trouble and capitalize on the misfortunes of others.

Jakes Dennis was the last driver to benefit from Evans’ penalty, taking fourth, while Antonio Felix da Costa was another to carve through the field, finishing sixth from last on the grid.

Maximilian Guenther rebounded from retirement on Saturday to finish seventh, while eighth for Pascal Wehrlein led to him dropping from second to third in the final drivers’ standings at the expense of Cassidy.

David Beckmann rounded out the top 10, scoring his first Formula E point after a trying season for him.

His Cupra Kiro teammate Dan Ticktum qualified on pole but started fifth, and after an early trip to the pits, had rallied back into the top five but dropped to 14th by race end after getting two penalties for a safety car infringement and for causing a collision with Nato.

Edoardo Mortara was the first retirement of the race, having lost drive before the first corner on lap 1. Barnard, Rowland and Mueller joined him in exiting early, as did Sam Bird as McLaren ended its three-year spell in Formula E with a double DNF.

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