Facts & figures: The best statistics on the 2025 Formula E race in Mexico

Formula E held its second race of the 2024/25 season in Mexico City on Saturday. The first race weekend in 2025 produced some interesting statistics, milestones and curiosities.

Statistical peculiarities at the Mexico City E-Prix

• Pascal Wehrlein secured the eighth pole position of his Formula E career, including the fourth at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Never before has a driver started from P1 on the same circuit so often. It was also Porsche's eighth pole position in Formula E, bringing the team level with Mercedes. For the first time, two drivers from the same team started from row 1 in Mexico City.
  
• Seven drivers who had already reached the duel phase of qualifying in Sao Paulo did so again in Mexico. The only difference: instead of Norman Nato, Mitch Evans now finished in the top 8. For Evans, just like Wehrlein, it was his 31st participation in the duels - a record.
• Oliver Rowland celebrated his fourth race win in Formula E on Saturday. It was the 20th victory for Nissan (including predecessor team e.dams), including the first in Mexico City. For the 17th time in a row the race winner did not start from pole position. This was last achieved by Pascal Wehrlein in Mexico in 2024.
• Antonio Felix da Costa stood on the podium for the 25th time in the electric series, finishing second on this track for the third time. Together with Wehrlein, he achieved podium places 24 and 25 for the team, which thus overtook Mahindra. Wehrlein thus stood on the podium in Mexico City for the fourth time in a row.
• Pascal Wehrlein became the third driver to achieve more than 100 leading laps on the same race track in Formula E. Only Felix da Costa in Berlin-Tempelhof and Sam Bird in New York City achieved this before him.
• Jake Dennis (four starts) and Jake Hughes (three starts) finished each race in the top 10 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Sam Bird, on the other hand, leaves Mexico City without any points for the fifth time in a row. His last point at this circuit came in February 2019, almost six years ago.
• Jean-Eric Vergne now has exactly 100 points ahead of his closest rival, Lucas di Grassi, with 1145 points in the all-time leaderboard. Although the Frenchman has contested all eight races on the circuit in Mexico City, he has never led a lap here.
• After 12th place, Nick Cassidy has only finished in the top 10 once since May 2024: he was seventh in Saturday's race in London 2024. At the same time, Jaguar failed to score points for the first time since the 2023 Jakarta E-Prix. On June 3, 2023, Sam Bird and Mitch Evans collided in Indonesia.
• Sebastien Buemi has only one race win in his last 100 Formula E races. He has now been waiting 74 races for his next race win. The last time Buemi stood on the top step of the podium was on 13 July 2019 in New York City - exactly five and a half years ago on the day this article was published.
• Daniel Ticktum contested his 50th Formula E race in Mexico. However, the Briton had no reason to celebrate: after his fourth Mexico City E-Prix, he is still waiting for his first top 15 result. He is the only active Formula E driver to have more than one start in Mexico City and has yet to score a single point there.

Average qualifying position (season)

The best qualifier this season is Pascal Wehrlein, who was on pole position twice. However, six other drivers also made it into the qualifying duels in both races.

Average race result (season)

Antonio Felix da Costa is the driver with the best race result after his two podium finishes in the first two races of the season. Behind him are Nyck de Vries and Jean-Eric Vergne.

Position changes (Mexico City E-Prix)

With a total of ten positions gained, Nick Cassidy was the driver who advanced the most in Mexico. Starting from 22nd on the grid, he finished twelfth. Robin Frijns was also able to move up significantly with nine places, but he also failed to score any points.

At the bottom of the list is Mitch Evans, who retired after a collision with Nico Müller. As he had started from fifth on the grid, he lost 16 positions. But Edoardo Mortara (-11) and David Beckmann (-10), the second driver to retire in Mexico, also lost double-digit positions.

Race laps completed (season)

After the Mexico City E-Prix, 13 drivers have completed all 71 race laps so far this season.

Leading laps (season)

Oliver Rowland collected the most leading laps this season, leading the race in both Sao Paulo and Mexico City. The same applies to Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Felix da Costa - these three drivers have led the field on 54 of the 71 laps so far.

Performance analysis of the drivers & teams (Mexico City E-Prix)

The fastest man at the Mexico City E-Prix was Antonio Felix da Costa. In the semi-final of qualifying, the Porsche driver set the fastest time of the weekend (1:10.739 minutes). He was followed by Jean-Eric Vergne, just under two tenths of a second behind, ahead of Taylor Barnard, Oliver Rowland and Pascal Wehrlein. 18 drivers were within one second of each other in Mexico. At the back of the field were Jake Hughes (1:12.179), Robin Frijns (1:12.653), David Beckmann (1:13.433) and Zane Maloney (1:13.436). Beckmann and Maloney were almost 2.7 seconds off the best time.

The fastest team on one lap was Porsche ahead of DS Penske and McLaren. They were followed by Nissan, Lola Yamaha ABT and Envision. The slowest team in Mexico City was Andretti. Adjusted for the manufacturers' ranking, this means Porsche >>> DS/Maserati >>> Nissan >>> Jaguar >>> Lola Yamaha >>> Mahindra.

Lap time analysis (Mexico City E-Prix)

In the lap time analysis (we only show the laps before the first safety car phase due to the distortion), it is once again striking how much the drivers benefited from the new attack mode with all-wheel drive. You can see clear downward swings among the drivers who had activated the additional power.

It is noticeable that Attack Mode was activated in the midfield as early as the first quarter of the race: Bird, Beckmann and Vandoorne, for example, drove over the loops as early as lap 5, while at the front there was a much longer wait. Felix da Costa, Evans, Müller and Wehrlein were particularly eye-catching: these drivers made up significant ground with attack mode activated, as they also invested energy in making up positions at the same time.

Mortara and Ticktum saved a lot of energy after their pit stops in order to benefit from a safety car. This came, but too late for the pair to make decisive use of their energy advantage.

Also noticeable: unlike in many previous races since the introduction of the Gen3 cars, the drivers (with the exception of the attack mode) drove relatively consistent lap times over the entire course of the race. The track layout with its few overtaking opportunities and the comparatively low slipstream effect made it unnecessary to save a lot of energy at the start of the race in order to be able to go full power towards the end of the race.