Facts & Figures: The best statistics on the two Formula E races in Shanghai in 2025

Formula E held its races 10 and 11 of the 2024-25 Formula E World Championship season in the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai last weekend. The double-header at the Shanghai International Circuit produced some interesting statistics, milestones and curiosities.

Statistical peculiarities at the Shanghai E-Prix

• For the second time in the history of Formula E, no bonus points were awarded for pole position on Sunday. After more than ten and a half years in which three bonus points were always awarded, there were now no extra points twice within just 15 days.
• Maximilian Günther achieved his fourth pole position in Formula E on Saturday. Asia seems to suit him very well in qualifying: He achieved all his poles on this continent, the first two in Jakarta and the third one in Jeddah.
• Pascal Wehrlein reached the qualifying duels for the 35th time - a record!
• Günther celebrated his seventh Formula E victory on Saturday. It was his twelfth time on the podium in the electric racing series. Apart from him, only Nicolas Prost (three wins with five podiums) has stood at the top in more than half of his Formula E podiums.
• Günther won a race in the month of May for the first time. This means he has did his seven race wins in seven different calendar months: January (Santiago 2020), February (Jeddah 2025), March (Tokyo 2024), May (Shanghai 2025), June (Jakarta 2023), July (New York City 2021) and August (Berlin 2020).
• Jean-Eric Vergne achieved his 37th Formula E podium, including second place for the 16th time. Only Lucas di Grassi has achieved higher figures in both statistics (41 podiums and 17 second places).
• It was the first Penske one-two in Formula E. Penske is the sixth team to achieve a 1-2-victory - only Audi (3), Jaguar (2), Mercedes (2), Techeetah (2) and Porsche (1) have done so.
• McLaren driver Taylor Barnard celebrated his fifth Formula E podium on Saturday.
• On Saturday, Porsche failed to score any points for the first time since the 2024 Misano E-Prix, meaning that each of the eleven teams has failed to score points in at least one race this season.
• Nick Cassidy scored his seventh Formula E victory on Sunday. He last won in Berlin in 2024, more than a whole year ago.
• It was the first start-to-finish victory since Cassidy won in London 2023, also in the rain. It was only the 3rd start-to-finish victory in the Gen3 era of Formula E; apart from Cassidy, only Jake Dennis achieved this in Rome 2023.
• Sunday's race was the first race without a Nissan lead lap this season.
• Porsche scored its fourth double podium in Formula E, the third of the season. For Antonio Felix da Costa it was podium number 27, equalling Sam Bird. Wehrlein stood on the podium for the 16th time.
• Jean-Eric Vergne finished in the top 10 for the 97th time on Sunday. Having also achieved pole position in Punta del Este and Miami in Season 1 and the fastest race lap in Monaco, for which you didn't have to finish in the top ten at the time, meaning he scored points in 100 Formula E races. No one before him had ever achieved that.
• Mitch Evans achieved his second best result of the season with 14th place in Sunday's Shanghai E-Prix after winning the season opener in Sao Paulo. As he remained without points for the tenth time in a row, Evans has mathematically lost his chance of winning the title for the first time in his Formula E career five races before the end of the season. It is the first time that this has happened to a driver who has already led the drivers' championship after a race.
• For the first time since the 2023 London E-Prix, both races of a double-header have been won from pole position. The second race also took place in wet conditions and was started behind the safety car, meaning there was hardly any overtaking manoeuvres.
• Only Zane Maloney and Nico Müller have yet to take part in the qualifying duels this season. Müller, however, achieved his best qualifying result on Sunday with 10th place on the grid.
• Nissan driver Norman Nato has now finished 37 races in a row. The Frenchman's last retirement was at the 2023 Sao Paulo E-Prix.
• As in the previous year, there were six different drivers on the podium at the double-header in Shanghai. Since the 2023 Rome E-Prix, this has only happened in Shanghai.
• After the resurfacing and with the Gen3 Evo cars, the Shanghai International Circuit is now the second-fastest racetrack in Formula E history. The average speed of 160.97 km/h achieved by Max Günther in his final duel on Saturday was more than 10 km/h faster than last year and has only been bettered in Formula E history in Portland (167.26 km/h).

Average qualifying position (season)

After the Shanghai E-Prix, the best qualifier of the season is Wehrlein, who knocked Rowland off the top spot. But Günther and Felix da Costa are also doing quite well in qualifying.

Average race result (season)

Rowland is the driver with the best average position in the race - by some distance. Behind him is Vergne, ahead of Wehrlein and Nyck de Vries.

Position changes (Shanghai E-Prix)

With a total of 20 positions gained, Dan Ticktum was the driver who advanced the most in Shanghai. On Saturday, he sensationally moved up from 21st on the grid to 4th place - only losing out on a podium result in the final chicane. The two Envision drivers Sebastien Buemi (+13) and Robin Frijns (+10) are also in double figures.

At the bottom of the list with 17 lost positions is Nick Cassidy. The dominator of the race on Sunday fell back a long way on Saturday after starting fourth due to a collision on the second lap and only finished the race in 21st place. Edo Mortara (-15) and the second race winner of the weekend Max Günther (-13) also lost double-digit positions due to their two retirements (Mortara on Saturday, Günther on Sunday).

Race laps completed (season)

After the Shanghai E-Prix, eight drivers have now completed all 349 race laps this season. Mortara is no longer one of them after his retirement on Saturday.

Leading laps (season)

Rowland still has by far the most laps in the lead this season, although he only collected seven more laps in Shanghai. He has now led 116 of a total of 349 race laps this season. Cassidy moved up to second place in the statistics with his start-finish victory on Sunday.

Under "other" are summarised: Jean-Eric Vergne (15), Stoffel Vandoorne (11), Sebastien Buemi (10), Dan Ticktum (9), Norman Nato (8), Mitch Evans (7), Jake Dennis, Nico Müller (6 each), Robin Frijns (3) and David Beckmann (2)

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

The fastest man at the Shanghai E-Prix was Günther. In the final duel on Saturday, the German set the fastest time of the weekend (1:18.234 minutes). He was followed by Barnard and Wehrlein. 18 drivers were within one second of each other in Shanghai. At the back of the field were Sebastien Buemi (1:19.277), Robin Frijns (1:19.348), Norman Nato (1:19.374) and Lucas di Grassi (1:19.406), who were more than a second off the best time.

The fastest team on one lap was DS Penske ahead of McLaren and Porsche. They were followed by Mahindra, Jaguar and Nissan. The slowest team in Shanghai was Envision. Adjusted for the manufacturer ranking, this means: Stellantis >>>> Nissan >>> Porsche >>> Mahindra >>> Jaguar >>> Lola Yamaha

Lap time analysis (Sunday)

When analysing the lap times on Sunday (we only show the laps after the safety car phase at the start of the race), the first thing that stands out are the drivers who went off the track or even spun. The two Cupra Kiro drivers David Beckmann and Dan Ticktum are particularly noticeable here because they lost a lot of time in the process.

The influence of the spray can be seen by observing the lap times of race winner Cassidy and runner-up Wehrlein: They were consistently the fastest drivers in the entire field (apart from Wehrlein's mistake just before the halfway point of the race). However, you can see very clearly that the track continued to dry out as the race progressed and the times in the final laps were therefore three to four seconds faster than after the start.

It is also clear to see that energy management played virtually no role in these weather conditions: hardly any drivers had to noticeably reduce their pace towards the end of the race. Only the two Porsche drivers, who had already consumed a conspicuous amount of energy behind the safety car, showed a slight drop in the last two or three laps.