Facts & figures: The best statistics on the 2026 Formula E races in Jeddah

Formula E held races 4 and 5 of the 2025/26 season at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit last weekend. The first double-header of the season in Saudi Arabia produced some interesting statistics, milestones and curiosities.

Statistical peculiarities at the Jeddah E-Prix

• Edoardo Mortara achieved his fourth pole position in Jeddah on Friday and his fifth pole position in Formula E on Saturday. Previously, he had only achieved pole in Berlin: twice in 2022 and in 2024, making him the first driver to achieve twice both poles in a double-header: In Berlin 2022 and Jeddah 2026.
• After pole positions in Mexico (Buemi) and Miami (Müller), Swiss drivers have now achieved pole position four times in a row.
• Mahindra secured pole positions 12 and 13 in Formula E, catching up with Jaguar and Andretti, who are currently on 14.
• Pascal Wehrlein celebrated his ninth Formula E victory on Friday, including his third in Saudi Arabia. He is now the sole record winner in the kingdom. At the same time, the Porsche driver celebrated his 20th podium in Formula E. It was the 14th Porsche victory in Formula E, bringing Porsche level with ABT/Audi.
• Antonio Felix da Costa scored his 13th victory in Formula E on Saturday, equalling Lucas di Grassi. Only Mitch Evans (15) and Sebastien Buemi (14) have more. It was his first win with Jaguar, meaning he has now won with Aguri, Andretti, Techeetah, Porsche and Jaguar. He is the only Formula E driver to celebrate race wins with five different teams.
• At the same time, it was the 24th race win for Jaguar. The team thus takes the lead in the all-time leaderboard.
• Evans scored his 35th Formula E podium on Friday, drawing level with Buemi for the day.
• Buemi scored his first Formula E podium in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, previously his best result was 4th place in 2023, it was his 36th podium in Formula E. Only di Grassi (41) and Jean-Eric Vergne (38) have more.
• Oliver Rowland celebrated his 23rd Formula E podium. The Briton has finished on the podium in four of the last five Formula E races in Saudi Arabia.
• On Sunday, the podium was occupied by one driver from each of the most successful teams in Formula E history in terms of podiums: Buemi for Envision (57), Rowland for Nissan (57) and Felix da Costa for Jaguar (56),
• It was also the second-oldest podium in Formula E history: the average age was 35 years and 32 days. The day before, the average age was slightly younger, but an average of 34 years and 7 days still made it the seventh oldest podium in Formula E. The oldest podium to date was at the first race of the 2021 Puebla E-Prix (35 years and 115 days).
• Pascal Wehrlein (Friday) and Rowland (Saturday) contested their 100th Formula E race at the weekend: Both finished their anniversary race on the podium.
• Vergne contested his 150th race in Formula E on Friday - he did not finish on the podium, but at least finished in the points.
• Only Vergne and Taylor Barnard have finished in the top 10 in all four Formula E races in Jeddah. However, Vergne's form is on the decline: he finished 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th in succession, meaning that Vergne has now scored a total of eleven top 10 finishes in Saudi Arabia - no other driver has achieved this.
• 16th place for Nico Müller on Saturday was the first time this season that a driver from the Porsche works team did not finish in the top 10.
• Lola Yamaha ABT also remains without points after the second Jeddah E-Prix. All other nine teams took at least two points from the weekend.
• Buemi drove his 5,000th race lap in Formula E on Saturday. He is the third driver to achieve this after di Grassi and Vergne.
• Kiro (incl. previous teams) and Envision Racing (incl. Virgin) have each completed their 10,000th race lap in Jeddah. This means that after Nissan (incl. e.dams), three teams have now cracked this mark. Andretti will probably also have the opportunity to do so in Madrid: The US team currently stands at 9,954 laps.
• Sunday's race was the shortest of the season so far and the second shortest race of the Gen3 Evo era after Saturday's race at the Shanghai E-Prix 2025.

Average qualifying position (season)

Only Antonio Felix da Costa has qualified in the top 10 in all five races this season, but Mortara is the best qualifier of the season after Jeddah. Behind Felix da Costa are Dennis, Wehrlein and Müller. At the end of the field are the two Lola Yamaha ABT cars.

Pole positions (season)

Average race result (season)

Wehrlein, the only driver to finish every race in the top 10, is the driver with the best average position in the race, followed by Mortara ahead of Müller and Rowland. Norman Nato and Dan Ticktum can only be found at the end of the field.

Race wins (season)

Podiums (season)

Position changes (Jeddah E-Prix)

With a total of 15 positions gained, Buemi was the driver who advanced the most in Jeddah. On Friday he went from 17th to 7th, on Saturday from 7th to second position. But Mitch Evans (+13) also made double-digit gains over both days.

At the bottom of the list are Jake Dennis (-17) and Max Günther (-14). Günther lost a lot of ground in both races after a good qualifying, while Dennis dropped back on Saturday after starting from the front row due to a puncture.

Race laps completed (season)

Seven of the 20 drivers completed the full distance in the first five races of the season. Zane Maloney is no longer one of them after his retirement on lap 1 on Friday.

Leading laps (season)

In this statistic, Müller maintains his lead despite not leading a single lap in Jeddah. His team-mate Wehrlein is now second ahead of Felix da Costa. In Jeddah, there were four drivers in each race who shared the lead laps between them - but no driver led on both days.

In total, 15 drivers now have at least one lead lap to their name this season.

Under "other" are summarised: Jake Dennis (8), Felipe Drugovich (6), Maximilian Günther (5), Taylor Barnard, Sebastien Buemi (4 each), Nyck de Vries (2) and Jean-Eric Vergne (1).

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

The fastest man at the Jeddah E-Prix was Dennis. In the semi-final duel on Saturday, the Andretti driver set the best lap time of the weekend (1:15.060 minutes). Apart from him, only Mortara managed a lap time under 1:15.3 minutes, beating Dennis with his time of 1:15.116 minutes in Saturday's final. He was followed by Evans with his lap time from the 3rd free practice session. Behind him were Nato, Ticktum and Wehrlein, who all set their best times on Friday. At the back of the field were di Grassi (1:16.083) and Maloney (1:16.258), who were the only drivers not to set a lap time under 1:16 minutes.

The fastest team on one lap was Andretti ahead of Mahindra. They were followed by Jaguar, Nissan and Cupra Kiro. The slowest team in Jeddah was Lola Yamaha ABT. Adjusted for the manufacturers' ranking, this means Porsche >>> Mahindra >>> Jaguar >>> Nissan >>> Stellantis >>> Lola Yamaha

Lap time analysis (Jeddah E-Prix)

The lap time analysis in Jeddah clearly shows how different the two races were. While a consistent pace of around 1:20 minutes was set on Friday - excluding the laps with pit boost pit stop and attack mode - the lap times on Saturday were between 1:25 and 1:27 minutes in the first third of the race. However, the fact that each driver had two attack mode activations, almost all of which were saved until the final phase, meant that the final third of the race was significantly faster.

Friday

On Friday, you can see the different strategies very clearly: While the first drivers turned off for the pit stop, Max Günther activated his only attack mode and was by far the fastest driver in the field on laps 16 and 17. Pascal Wehrlein, on the other hand, activated his attack mode immediately after the pit stop and pulled out the lead that would secure his victory.

Mitch Evans and Nico Müller, on the other hand, activated their attack mode much later and made up crucial positions in the final phase - mainly against the drivers who had pitted very early and used their attack mode immediately afterwards.

Saturday

On Saturday, there were relatively few differences in the strategies - all the drivers started slowly and gradually increased their lap times. Only Felix da Costa and Ticktum stood out - they had activated their first attack mode a little earlier and thus made up a lot of ground.

However, many drivers, especially those who drove in a pack for the entire race, recognised that there were probably problems with the battery temperatures towards the end of the race: the lap times increased significantly again. The two Lola Yamaha ABT drivers in particular lost an incredible amount of time in the final laps.