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

• On Saturday, Pascal Wehrlein secured the twelfth pole position of his Formula E career. In doing so, he overtook Mitch Evans and Oliver Rowland in the all-time rankings. For Porsche, it was their 13th pole position.
• On Sunday, Felipe Drugovich celebrated his first pole position in Formula E. He is the 33rd driver in Formula E history to secure the top spot on the grid.
• On Saturday, Wehrlein won his tenth Formula E race. It was the third time he had won from pole position – he had achieved his other two victories from pole in Mexico (2022 and 2024).
• Antonio Felix da Costa secured his 31st career podium, whilst for Jake Dennis it was his 26th podium.
• Lucas di Grassi claimed his 14th Formula E victory on Sunday. It was the first for Lola Yamaha and the 15th overall for the ABT team. His last victory came at the 2022 London E-Prix, when he was still racing for Venturi. 1,435 days, or the equivalent of 3 years, 11 months and 5 days, had passed since his last win. It was the longest gap between two wins for a Formula E driver, although Edoardo Mortara had to wait a similar length of time – 1,421 days. For ABT, it was their first Formula E victory since 14 August 2021. At that time, the team was still competing under the name Audi, and di Grassi was also victorious.
• Di Grassi has now won an E-Prix in eleven different cities. He shares this record with Jean-Eric Vergne. Interestingly, both have won on many different circuits so far – the only ones they have in common are Berlin, Montreal, New York City and Paris.
• This is only the second time in Formula E history that pole position and race victory have been secured by a Brazilian. The first time this happened was in the second race of the 2017 Montreal E-Prix, when di Grassi won from pole position.
• Following his victory on Sunday, di Grassi, aged 41 years and 328 days, is the oldest race winner in Formula E history – a record he had previously held. At the same time, he became the oldest driver ever to stand on the podium. He thus surpassed Stephane Sarrazin, who was exactly 58 days younger than the Brazilian at the 2017 Montreal E-Prix than he was on that Sunday in Shanghai.
• Di Grassi thus became the fifth driver to win a race in each of the first three generations of cars. Apart from him, only Sam Bird, Felix da Costa, Sebastien Buemi and Jean-Eric Vergne have achieved this.
• It was also di Grassi’s 42nd podium in Formula E – a record! It was his first podium since the 2025 Miami E-Prix, when he finished second. Vergne secured his 39th Formula E podium, thereby overtaking Mitch Evans.
• Joel Eriksson secured his first podium on Sunday in his 23rd Formula E race. Only four drivers in the history of the electric racing series have needed more races to finish in the top three for the first time, all of them British: Dan Ticktum (57 races), Alex Lynn (33), Oliver Turvey (29) and Jake Hughes (28).
• Overall, the podium on Sunday in Shanghai was the oldest in the history of the racing series: the average age at the ceremony was 35 years and 135 days. This surpassed the average age at the 2021 Puebla E-Prix – where di Grassi, Rene Rast and Edoardo Mortara stood on the podium – by 21 days.
• Thanks to di Grassi’s victory for Lola Yamaha ABT, nine out of ten teams have had a driver on the podium this season. Only DS Penske has failed to do so so far.
• For only the second time in Jaguar’s 140-race Formula E history, the team started a race without Mitch Evans. The first time was at the 2025 Tokyo E-Prix, when Evans suffered a heavy crash in qualifying.
• Having failed to score any points in the first seven races of the season, Drugovich has now finished in the top 10 for the sixth consecutive time.
• With an 8th-place finish and the bonus point for Rowland’s fastest lap of the race, Nissan (including e.dams) has become the first team in Formula E history to break the 2,000-point mark. ABT broke the 1,500-point mark with di Grassi’s victory.
• On Sunday, for the first time since the Mexico City E-Prix in January, Jaguar failed to score points in a race.
• Citroen (including Venturi and Maserati) became the seventh team overall to surpass the 10,000 race lap mark in Formula E.
• On Saturday, Taylor Barnard completed his 1,000th race lap in Formula E. He was the 34th driver to reach this milestone.
• For the third time this season – following the two races in Jeddah (Saturday) and Madrid – there was not a single retirement in Saturday’s race in Shanghai. Anyone who thinks this is nothing special is in for a surprise: In the 152 Formula E races prior to Saturday’s race at the 2026 Jeddah E-Prix, this has also happened exactly three times: in Berlin in 2018, Berlin in 2021 (Sunday) and London in 2023 (Sunday)!
• On Sunday, Pascal Wehrlein completed his 28th consecutive Formula E race. The last time he failed to see the chequered flag was at the 2025 Sao Paulo E-Prix, the season opener of Season 11. Only Norman Nato (38 races), Robin Frijns (31) and Jean-Eric Vergne (29) have finished more consecutive races.

Average qualifying position (season)

Wehrlein has regained the lead in this standings thanks to his two strong qualifying performances in Shanghai and now sits just ahead of Felix da Costa, Mortara and Barnard. At the back of the field, some way behind, is di Grassi, who once again finished 20th and 19th in Shanghai.

Pole positions (season)

Average race result (season)

Evans remains at the top of this statistic. Wehrlein has managed to overtake Müller and is now in second place. Ticktum, Maloney and Nato continue to be found only at the back of the field.

Race wins (season)

Podium finishes (season)

Position changes (Shanghai E-Prix)

The driver who made the biggest leap up the field was Eriksson: having moved up eight places on Saturday, he gained a full 13 places on Sunday – having started the race in 16th, he finished third. But di Grassi (+17, all on Sunday) and Vergne (+16) also made significant gains. Apart from these three drivers, no other driver made up more than two places in total!

At the bottom of the list is Taylor Barnard (-13), who fell well back in the race after two good qualifying results.

Laps completed (season)

Furthermore, five of the 20 drivers have managed to complete the full distance in every race so far. Envision and Porsche even managed this with both their cars.

Laps in the lead (season)

In this statistic, Wehrlein takes the lead ahead of his team-mate Müller after clocking up many kilometres in the lead (40 laps) in Shanghai, takes the lead ahead of his team-mate Müller. The driver with the second-highest number of laps led in Shanghai was Eriksson, who spent five laps at the front. Apart from Wehrlein, Vergne also racked up laps in the lead in both races. The Frenchman now has four laps in the lead, which he accumulated across four different races (Sao Paulo, Berlin and twice in Shanghai).

In total, all 20 drivers have at least one lap in the lead to their name this season.

The ‘others’ category includes: Noman Nato (19), Dan Ticktum (17), Nyck de Vries (12), Felipe Drugovich (11), Maximilian Günther (10), Joel Eriksson (9), Taylor Barnard (8), Sébastien Buemi, Lucas di Grassi (7 each), Pepe Martí (5), Jean-Eric Vergne (4) and Zane Maloney (2).

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

Wehrlein was the fastest driver in Shanghai: the Porsche driver set the fastest lap of the weekend (1:08.995 minutes) in the quarter-final on Saturday morning. He was followed by Mortara, Felix da Costa, Dennis, Evans, Eriksson, Günther and Ticktum. With the exception of Nyck de Vries, who was unable to drive on Saturday morning due to a technical problem, all drivers set their fastest times in the second free practice session or during the duel phase of Saturday’s qualifying. At the back of the field were di Grassi, Maloney, de Vries and Nato, although the latter did not even attempt a run at 350 kW on Saturday due to his grid penalty.

The fastest team over a single lap was therefore Porsche, ahead of Mahindra. They were followed by Jaguar, Andretti and Envision. The slowest team in Shanghai was once again Lola Yamaha ABT. In terms of the manufacturers’ ranking, this translates to: Porsche >>> Mahindra >>> Jaguar >>> Stellantis >>> Nissan >>> Lola Yamaha

Lap time analysis (Shanghai E-Prix)

In our lap time analysis this time, due to the varying weather conditions, the safety car period on Saturday and the full-course yellow on Sunday, we can only examine part of Sunday’s race.

Sunday

The lap time analysis shows that Porsche pushed the pace early on: Müller and Wehrlein were the fastest in the opening stages, before Felix da Costa moved up to third place using Attack Mode. Buemi was also very quick in the early stages.

It is very clear that di Grassi and Vergne, who opted for a full dry-weather set-up, were cautious in the early stages but then gradually got faster. From lap 16 onwards, they were the fastest drivers on the grid – only Eriksson, who had also partly opted for a dry-weather set-up, was able to keep up using Attack Mode. However, once this had run out, even he stood no chance against the two veteran stars.

Felix da Costa, the two Mahindra drivers and Müller, on the other hand, appear to have opted for a full wet set-up. Although the track was drying out significantly, their lap times actually got slower.