Evans breaks Formula E's all-time wins record with victory at Miami E-Prix

Mitch Evans ended Jaguar TCS Racing’s points drought from the start of this season and broke Formula E’s all-time wins record with victory at the Miami E-Prix.

The 39-lap race – which was the first wet session of the weekend due to early afternoon rain – was extended to 41 laps after a start behind the safety car, which re-racked the grid for a standing start on lap 5.

Evans, who started ninth, opted to save energy as a breakaway formed at the front of the grid, then waited until lap 19 to take his first Attack Mode. That brought him into the lead battle, but crucially, his first use of Attack Mode was only two minutes, leaving him six minutes in his pocket for his second use later on.

Pascal Wehrlein was the first of the leaders to take his second Attack Mode on lap 33. That helped him move by Nyck de Vries for third, but he was never going to be in with a shout of victory with both his teammate Nico Müller and Evans having six minutes left.

Müller went a lap later, but Evans managed to maintain enough of a buffer from his off-sequence first use that when he dipped into the wider line on lap 35, he maintained the lead and finished the race 3.151s ahead of Müller. Wehrlein comfortably held on for third, ahead of Joel Eriksson in fourth.

The Envision Racing driver was a fixture in the lead pack for the whole race, but used a lot of energy early on to maintain a podium challenging position. By halfway, he was dropping back to save, but managed to stay in touch with the leaders to take his career best finish.

Nyck de Vries was fifth, having led early on, with his Mahindra teammate Edoardo Mortara carving through the field to go from 16th on the grid to sixth. Similarly, Sebastien Buemi – relegated to the back of the grid after incidents with both Mahindras in qualifying – vaulted up the field to finish seventh, having taken a comparable Attack Mode strategy to race winner Evans. Antonio Felix da Costa finished eighth after fighting for the win early on.

On lap 25, da Costa challenged Müller in the first turn in an attempt to retake the race lead he'd briefly held earlier. By the end of that lap, he was under pressure from teammate Evans, who got by on the start/finish straight.

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That exchange allowed Felipe Drugovich – who'd also led earlier after starting second on the grid, but had used more energy than those around him to do so – to challenge, but he misjudged his entry into Turn 13 and ploughed into the back of the Jaguar driver. It left Drugovich pitting for a new nose and da Costa out of the win conversation, but still in that leading pack as a result of its breakaway from the rest of the field earlier on.

Pepe Marti had another points finish for Cupra Kiro in ninth, with Andretti's Jake Dennis recovering from a poor qualifying to take the final point in 10th.

DS Penske's Taylor Barnard succumbed to a setup gamble with the changeable conditions, falling from a strong fifth on the grid to end up 14th. Likewise, Dan Ticktum, who along with Barnard topped one of the pre-race practice sessions, took a chance on dry tire pressures in anticipation of the track drying, which it didn’t. He retired his Cupra Kiro on lap 26 after spending most of the race up to that point at the back.

Evans’ win was the 15th of his Formula E career, putting him atop of the series’ all-time wins list. Having failed to score in the opening two rounds of the season, it also propels him from 17th in the standings to sixth. Second and third place finishers Müller and Wehrlein moved from sixth and fourth to fifth and second respectively, with Mueller also getting three additional points for pole position.

Despite finishing 16th and a lap down due to the changeable conditions and the hope of a dry race, Nick Cassidy maintains the championship lead, although his four point lead has been trimmed down to two.

Porsche’s double podium allowed it to usurp Citron Racing at the top of the Teams’ standings, while it also moved ahead of Stellantis in the manufacturers’ standings.

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