Jaguar driver Mitch Evans claimed an unlikely Components E win from seventeenth on the grid in Sunday’s Berlin E-Prix, whereas Pascal Wehrlein completed third to retake the factors lead.
Having missed out on the duels in what gave the impression to be a tactical transfer, Evans bided his time within the early phases of the race, with Saturday’s opener proving that conserving vitality on the again would pay dividends in a while.
Though he spent a significant chunk of the race outdoors the highest 15, he rapidly moved to the entrance after arming his first assault mode, taking the lead on lap 25 of 37.
He finally crossed the road eight tenths away from Nissan’s Oliver Rowland to say his second win of the 2025/26 season, as Wehrlein rounded out the rostrum positions for Porsche.
Firstly of the race, Wehrlein pulled away cleanly from pole place however relinquished the lead quickly after, placing Taylor Barnard on the entrance of the sector on lap 2. Nonetheless, the lead continued to vary palms within the opening-thirds of the race, with Nick Cassidy, Edoardo Mortara, Sebastien Buemi and Joel Eriksson all taking turns on the entrance.
The highest 18 vehicles had been separated by simply 4 seconds after lap 14, as a typical pack-style contest ensued at Berlin Tempelhof earlier than the primary assault mode cycle.
By lap 18, Rowland had surged to the entrance of the sector, regardless of a poor launch from the penultimate row of the grid.
A particular order started to emerge on lap 25, when Evans hit the entrance with assault mode after saving as a lot as 4% vitality over his rivals.
The ultimate 12 laps featured a three-horse race for victory, with Evans, Rowland and Wehrlein pulling away from the chasing pack.
Wehrlein initially grabbed the lead after arming his second assault mode, however Evans pulled off what gave the impression to be the decisive transfer with 4 laps to run en path to a record-extending sixteenth Components E win.
Shortly afterwards, Rowland additionally demoted Wehrlein at first/end straight amid a particles warning on monitor, however escaped investigation to say a double podium over the Berlin weekend.
Third-place for Wehrlein put him again on the high of the leaderboards, with Evans transferring as much as second after in a single day chief Mortara may solely muster seventh within the Mahindra.
Nissan driver Norman Nato secured his finest results of the season in fifth with the same technique to team-mate Rowland, with Jake Dennis bagging one other strong haul of factors for Andretti in sixth forward of Mortara.
Jean-Eric Vergne was categorized eighth within the sole-surviving Citroen, with Andretti’s Felipe Drugovich scoring his first factors of the yr in ninth forward of Envision’s Erikson.
Saturday winner Nico Muller (Porsche) completed outdoors the factors in thirteenth after a late collision with Jaguar driver Antonio Felix da Costa that triggered the one full-course yellow interval of the weekend.
Citroen star Cassidy was eradicated from competition after being concerned in two incidents early within the race. The Kiwi was compelled out extensive by Mahindra driver Nyck de Vries at Flip 6-7 on lap 4, a transfer that dropped him outdoors of the highest 10. Whereas attempting to recuperate misplaced floor, he got here to blows with Envision driver Buemi, with the influence forcing an unscheduled pitstop for a change of entrance wings.
De Vries was the one different retiree from the race, with the incident with Cassidy leaving him with terminal harm.
Components E Berlin Race 2 outcomes
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