Evans started 17th and finished first to claim his 16th Formula E win, the most in the championship’s history. Every single one came in a Jaguar, which makes the news that followed all the more significant.
Mitch Evans produced one of the drives of the Formula E season on Sunday, climbing from 17th on the grid to win the 2026 Hankook Berlin E-Prix and set the all-time record for the most wins in the championship’s history.
The New Zealander worked his way into the top six through the first round of Attack Mode before hitting the front on lap 27, managing his energy well enough to build a gap and then hold off both reigning champion Oliver Rowland and Pascal Wehrlein when they came at him through the second round. Rowland finished second for Nissan, Wehrlein third for Porsche.
“Being patient in the race and letting it come to me,” Evans said afterwards. For a driver who started 17th, that patience was the difference.
The win takes Evans to 16 victories in Formula E, more than any other driver in the championship’s history, and it came in the same week Jaguar TCS Racing confirmed he will leave the team at the end of the season. He joined in 2016 when both driver and manufacturer were making their Formula E debut together, gave them their first podium in Hong Kong, their first win in Rome, and pushed them to the final weekend of the 2021/22 season before finishing runner-up after a retirement in London ended his title hopes. A decade of history, all 16 wins included.
Wehrlein leaves Berlin leading the drivers’ championship on 101 points after recovering from a Saturday puncture to take third, with Evans three points behind on 98. Monaco hosts Rounds 9 and 10 on 16th and 17th May, and Evans has already said he wants to win the title before he goes.
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