It’s mission half-accomplished for Wehrlein after London E-Prix 1 win

Pascal Wehrlein’s near-perfect Saturday propelled him to a narrow lead in the Formula E standings with one race to go, and now he's focusing on replicating the performance on Sunday.

Wehrlein entered the weekend third in the points, but was already up to equal second with Mitch Evans after taking pole position, which comes with three points. He then backed that up with victory 5.777s ahead of Jake Dennis, who swapped places with him in the standings and sits just five points behind ahead of tomorrow’s showpiece finale.

“It was a great day,” Wehrlein said. “The whole weekend, good performance already in the practice sessions, also in top two, top three. Qualifying [was] executed perfectly, both cars on the first row, and then yeah, just went by plan once in the race.”

Joining Wehrlein on the front row of the grid was his Porsche teammate Nico Mueller, who effectively gifted him the top spot by backing off in the final sector of his Final flying lap.

That team play continued into the race with Mueller backing up the field as Wehrlein escaped out in front. It paid dividends, but a timely full course yellow helped massively, halting a charge from Evans. On the other side of the Porsche garage, Mueller was caught out by it, eventually finishing in 11th.

“Obviously he helped me quite a lot,” said Wehrlein. “But was unfortunately on the wrong side of the strategy by pitting early and without that intervention [and] full course yellow, I think could have been a double podium today for the team.”

With one half of the weekend now done, Wehrlein’s objectives are clear. He may have the championship lead, but a conservative Sunday isn’t in mind.

“Plan A is to try and win that race again,” he insisted. "First of all, I need to make sure to put it somewhere at the front in qualifying. If we can't win, obviously we try and make calculations when it's needed, but the first goal is to win.”