It's anyone's game as FE title fight goes down to the wire in London

Formula E enters its season finale double header in London this weekend with nine drivers mathematically in with a shot at the title.

With 58 points on offer, drivers down to Nyck de Vries can, in theory, still win the championship come Sunday evening. Of course, for most of those nine drivers, the likelihood is extremely slim but at the sharp end of the table, the fight remains wide open. Five points cover Jake Dennis, Mitch Evans, and Pascal Wehrlein, with reigning champion Oliver Rowland a further nine points back and Mahindra's Edoardo Mortara and Jaguar TCS Racing's Antonio Felix da Costa will in with a chance of causing an upset.

Of those in the top three, Evans is the only one yet to win the championship – coming second on two occasions, and third between those seasons – but he says he’s not concerned by a perceived disadvantage in not having that title-winning experience to rely on.

“Probably, if anything, it’s a disadvantage, maybe, but I don’t think it really matters, to be honest,” he said. “I've come close in the past, I know I can do it, so I think if I was a complete outsider that's never been in this position before, maybe it's more of a disadvantage. But the main thing is to try and change that this weekend. 

“On one hand, it could be more pressure because of you trying to get your first one, and these guys have already already achieved that, but I don't really see it as one way or another.”

While it’s the final two rounds of the 17 race season, Evans says the closeness between the main contenders means the weekend is “almost like a two-race shootout”, a feeling championship leader Dennis agrees with. 

“It is a bit of a clean slate coming into this weekend,” said the Andretti driver. “It kind of feels like back at Sao Paulo, everyone on zero points. When we all put our helmets on, we're all there to try and deliver the absolute best. And at least where my mindset is at, as long as I can get out of the car and say I didn't make a mistake or I gave it my absolute everything and didn't win, then I can go into the off season in a pretty good mindset.”

Evans and Wehrlein have been in the championship picture for much of the season, as has become a norm in Formula E’s GEN3 era, but Dennis – who triumphed in the first season of the homologation cycle back in 2022-23 and won this season’s opener – has had a much more subdued season, moving to the fore after a successful Asian leg of the championship where he finished on the podium in four out of five races across China and Japan.

“I do feel like I've kind of come out of nowhere in comparison to when I won it in season nine, which is a nice feeling,” he said. “I don't feel like I've really been in the limelight of the championship hunt at all until after Tokyo. I arrived late to the party, but we're here to try and win this thing. And if we can do so, then great.”

With Evans’ Jaguar and the Porsche powertrains of Dennis and Wehrlein both offering a competitive package and the trio’s teams all tasting championship success in one form or another – Jaguar with teams’ and manufacturers’ crowns, Andretti with the drivers’, and Porsche with all three – Wehrlein thinks that strategy will ultimately be the most crucial element of this weekend’s races.
“It's two different races, Saturday with the Pit Boost, and strategy will be important,” he said. “I wouldn’t say there is [a favorite]. It depends on their performance. I think all four of us can win races, win a championship. I'm probably most worried about team strategy.”