Facts & Figures: The best statistics on the 2024 Formula E races in London

Formula E concluded its tenth season last weekend in London. The two races on the indoor-outdoor circuit at the ExCeL produced some interesting statistics, milestones and curiosities.

Statistical peculiarities at the London E-Prix

• Mitch Evans achieved his ninth pole position in Formula E on Saturday, moving up to third place in the eternal leaderboard behind Jean-Eric Vergne and Sebastien Buemi. Nick Cassidy achieved his sixth pole position on Sunday, his first since the 2023 season finale, and Jaguar's tenth and eleventh poles, which equalled Mahindra's tally. It was the first time that Jaguar had achieved first place on the grid in both races of a double-header.
• Pascal Wehrlein celebrated his seventh race win in Formula E on Saturday, drawing level with Nick Cassidy. It was the fourth Porsche victory in a row and the seventh win of the season for the team. No other team has won so many races in a Formula E season. It was the eighth season victory for a Porsche-powered car. It was also the first race win for Porsche and for a German driver in London.
• Oliver Rowland celebrated his second win of the season and the 3rd victory of his Formula E career on Sunday. It was also the 19th race win for the Nissan team (including predecessor team e.dams). It was the first time since Season 3 that the team (then still under the name Renault e.dams) had won more than one race in a single season.
• Rowland is therefore the fourth Briton to win his home race in Formula E: Sam Bird, Jake Dennis and Alex Lynn achieved this before him.
• Sebastien Buemi scored his 32nd podium in Formula E on Saturday. For Mitch Evans it was podiums number 30 and 31, for Wehrlein number 11 and 12.
• In each of the six London E-Prix double headers, at least one driver has stood on the podium in both races. This year there were even two, as in 2023: Back then, Jake Dennis and Mitch Evans took part in both podium ceremonies.
• On Saturday, three Swiss drivers finished in the top 6 for the first time in Formula E history.
• The pole-setter has now gone 15 races in a row without a race win. The last time Pascal Wehrlein achieved this was at the Mexico City E-Prix.
• For the first time since the Tokyo E-Prix, no Porsche driver was in front in Sunday's race. The team had previously clocked up leading laps in ten consecutive races, a new record! This was previously held by Renault e.dams in seasons 2 and 3, when the team collected nine consecutive lead laps from the Berlin E-Prix 2016 to the Paris E-Prix 2017.
• Pascal Wehrlein won his first Formula E title on Sunday. He thus became the ninth driver to win the drivers' title in the electric series. It was Wehrlein's first title win since he won the DTM in 2015. He thus became the first German Formula World Champion since Nico Rosberg, who became Formula 1 World Champion in 2016.
• Mitch Evans became runner-up for the second time in Formula E.
• After two second places, Jaguar became team world champion for the first time. Porsche also achieved its best result since entering Formula E with second place in the teams' championship. For Penske, third place was the best result since season 1 - when the team finished runners-up.
• For Sam Bird, Lucas di Grassi and Edoardo Mortara, it was the worst Formula E season of their careers in terms of points. Mortara achieved the same number of points as in season 4, when he made his debut in the racing series.
• Jaguar set a new record with 368 points - never before has a team scored so many championship points in one season!
• With 121 points, Envision scored exactly as many points as in season 6. The team has never scored fewer points in Formula E history.
• ERT again failed to score points in London and has now gone nine races in a row without scoring points. It is the longest drought of any team this season.
• Sam Bird drove his 4,000th race lap in Formula E in Sunday's race. This puts him in 5th place in the all-time best lists.

Average qualifying position (season)

The best driver in qualifying this season was Pascal Wehrlein, who was the only driver to make it into the duels 13 times. However, Mitch Evans, Jean-Eric Vergne and Nick Cassidy are also doing very well on average. The weakest regular driver was Dan Ticktum, who also only made it into the duels once in the entire season.

Average race result (season)

It was just as close here as in the European Championship battle: Evans wins by a wafer-thin margin against Wehrlein in this classification, however. Behind them, Vergne and Rowland are on a par, while Cassidy and Dennis have lost significant ground with their results in the last few races.

Position changes (London E-Prix)

The winner in this classification at the London E-Prix is Sergio Sette Camara: Two weak qualifying sessions in conjunction with a grid penalty, but quite acceptable race pace, resulted in 17 positions that the Brazilian was able to make up. But Nyck de Vries (+16), Lucas di Grassi (+13), Sebastien Buemi (+12) and Nico Müller (+10) also made double-digit gains. Max Günther (-24) lost the most positions after his two retirements, but Robin Frijns (-16) and Antonio Felix da Costa (-15) are also well down after an early retirement each.

Race laps completed (season)

At the end of the season, three drivers have completed all 538 race laps driven this season: Evans, Vergne and Wehrlein. Edo Mortara is the driver who has completed the fewest race laps of all drivers with 16 starts - he is still behind Nico Müller, although the Swiss had to skip the Berlin E-Prix.

Leading laps (season)

In London, five of the 22 drivers collected further lead laps. Pascal Wehrlein has led the most laps this season, followed by the two Jaguar drivers and four-time race winner Antonio Felix da Costa.

In total, 17 of the 22 regular drivers have led at least one lap this season. This was not the case for the ERT duo of Sette Camara and Ticktum, Lucas di Grassi, Jehan Daruvala and Sacha Fenestraz.

Summarised under "other" are: Sebastien Buemi (22), Sam Bird (21), Norman Nato, Stoffel Vandoorne (15 each), Robin Frijns, Max Günther (12 each), Nico Müller (10), Jake Hughes (9), Edoardo Mortara (3) and Nyck de Vries (2).

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

The winner of our performance analysis of the London E-Prix is Nick Cassidy. In the final duel on Sunday, the Jaguar driver set the fastest lap of the weekend (1:09.871 minutes) - the only lap under the barrier of 70 seconds. He was followed by Max Günther and Oliver Rowland, just ahead of Pascal Wehrlein and Jean-Eric Vergne. At the back of the field are Norman Nato (1:10.745), Sergio Sette Camara (1:10.786) and Jake Hughes (1:10.797).

The relatively short lap distance of 2.080 kilometres also meant that the gaps were small: Hughes separated Cassidy by less than a second. It was noticeable that the track became significantly faster over the course of the weekend, with each of the 22 drivers setting their fastest lap on Sunday. Felix da Costa, Nato and Hughes even set their fastest lap in the group phase of qualifying, where they were only allowed to use 300 kW of power instead of 350 kW.

The fastest team on one lap was Jaguar ahead of Maserati. They were followed by Nissan, Porsche and DS. The slowest team was Mahindra. Adjusted for the manufacturer ranking, this means Jaguar >>> Stellantis >>> Nissan >>> Porsche >>> ERT >>> Mahindra

Lap time analysis

Saturday

On Saturday, where the race distance was three laps longer than on Sunday, it was once again noticeable how slow the pace was in the first half of the race. It was only from lap 21 onwards that the lap times got faster and faster.

It is easy to see how Pascal Wehrlein used his energy advantage in this phase and was the fastest driver in the entire field. You can see that Evans was able to keep up with Wehrlein's pace for a long time, but then had to save energy and even fell behind Günther. It is also clear how good Rowland's pace was - if he had not collided with Felix da Costa at the start of the race and lost a lot of time due to the collision, he could definitely have had a say in the podium places.

Sunday

In contrast, the pace is not as slow in the first half of the race on Sunday. However, you can also see how the drivers at the front tacticked to hope for a gap behind them, which they wanted to use to activate the attack mode.

The intermediate sprint by Antonio Felix da Costa and Oliver Rowland, with which they wanted to get into good positions, is clearly visible. At the right-hand end of the graphic, you can see that Cassidy lost a lot of time after his tyre puncture before he drove into the pits.

This also led to the collision with Max Günther, which meant the end of the race for the German (and later also for Cassidy) and triggered the next safety car.