Season-opening analysis: How Formula E's teams have stacked up across the first 6 races of the 2025/26 season

With six of 17 races now in the books, the 2025/26 Formula E World Championship has headed into an extended break. After a race-free April, the series will not return until May 2, when the Berlin E-Prix brings an end to a six-week gap in the calendar. That makes this the perfect moment to take stock of how the teams have performed over the opening third of the season.

Championship points

At the top of the teams' standings, the fight could hardly be any closer after the Madrid E-Prix: just four points separate Porsche and Jaguar after six races.

Porsche undoubtedly made the stronger start to the campaign, but Jaguar has hit back impressively over the past two rounds and significantly reduced the gap. Mahindra Racing, in third, already has a more substantial deficit to the leading duo, while the battle behind is tight once again: Andretti, currently seventh, sits only 15 points behind Envision Racing in fourth.

DS Penske and Lola Yamaha ABT, meanwhile, have already lost touch slightly.

A comparison with the standings after six races last season shows just how much Jaguar has improved after its difficult start to Season 10. DS Penske and Nissan, on the other hand, are both trailing well behind the level they showed a year ago.

One particularly striking detail: despite the grid being reduced by one team following McLaren's exit - a team that had scored 70 points from the first six races of 2024/25 - four of the remaining teams have failed to capitalise and are actually worse off than they were at the same stage last season.

Qualifying performance

Qualifying has produced no standout force so far this season. The field is incredibly tightly packed, meaning even a single poor session can have a noticeable impact on the overall picture. One exception, however, is Lola Yamaha ABT, which has once again been comfortably the weakest team over one lap - much as it was last season.

The numbers from the first six qualifying sessions underline that point perfectly: six different teams have already reached the Duel stage at least six times. Lola Yamaha ABT, by contrast, is still waiting for its first appearance in the quarter-finals.

Race performance

The picture in the races looks rather different.

Porsche and Jaguar have clearly set the benchmark, while Envision's two drivers have established themselves as the best of the rest. In fact, they have arguably been the standout overachievers in the races: ranking third in race performance despite sitting only ninth in qualifying highlights just how efficiently the customer Jaguar package has been used.

At the other end of the field, Lola Yamaha ABT also finds itself rooted to the bottom in race trim.