Formula E: Barnard won the race, and Verlaine claimed his second title.

      In the previous stages of the season, Pascal Wehrlein's results varied and were far from always brilliant, but the main thing is that in the London season finale, luck was on his side, and he approached the final race as the leader of the personal standings with a decent points lead.

      The Porsche drivers qualified in the second row on Sunday, with only Nyck de Vries and Edoardo Mortara starting ahead of them, but the Mahindra team drivers were not contenders for the championship, so they did not pose a significant threat.

      The main rivals, Mitch Evans and Jake Dennis, started the race from 5th and 16th positions respectively, so Porsche's task was simply to prevent their opponents from earning too many points.

      At the start, the entire top five maintained their positions, while Dennis dropped to 17th place, which further complicated the already difficult situation for British driver Andretti.

      As expected, de Vries and Mortara led comfortably, with Wehrlein closely following them, while Nico Müller, Pascal's teammate, immediately began to hold up the pack, creating a gap of about one and a half seconds between the two Porsche cars.

      Overtaking on the London track is difficult, but still possible, especially with the use of Attack Mode, a power boost mode. Therefore, following the tactical instructions from the Jaguar team, António Félix da Costa was the first to activate this mode, overtaking Evans and then leaving both Porsche cars behind. He even attempted to squeeze between the two Mahindra electric cars, but was unsuccessful.

      In any case, the Portuguese driver secured third place, which he only relinquished to Taylor Barnard, a DS Penske driver, when Barnard activated Attack Mode. However, when Wehrlein, who was running fifth at that stage of the race, tried to do the same, António defended his position very aggressively and did not let the championship leader pass for a long time. Meanwhile, Evans was running seventh.

      The Sunday race takes place without a mandatory pit stop, meaning no express battery recharge, and its distance is shorter – 35 laps. After ten laps, the Mahindra duo was leading, with Barnard closely behind in his bright golden electric car, but when Wehrlein caught up with the top three, da Costa was able to push him back to 5th place again.

      At the same time, the battery charge on Pascal's car was a couple of percentage points lower than that of Mitch Evans' Jaguar, which suggested that the New Zealander would soon take decisive action. But first, he needed to deal with Nico Müller, and Evans did everything he could for that, but the German resisted until the end.

      On lap 15, Mitch let Sebastian Buemi, who was racing his last Formula E race for the Envision team, pass ahead; the Swiss activated Attack Mode and also overtook Müller. On lap 17, Evans finally managed to pass Müller, although it required a forceful maneuver, resulting in a slight contact between the cars. But Mitch had said he had nothing to lose...

      However, by the halfway point, he was only in 8th place, with Wehrlein separated from him by Buemi and Nick Cassidy's cars, as well as an interval of about 4 seconds. But he had a trump card – the right to use the power boost mode twice, and it became increasingly interesting when Mitch would use it.

      Fewer laps remained until the finish, and Evans still remained in 8th place, while he was caught up by Jean-Éric Vergne, a Citroen driver. Only on lap 26 did Mitch finally receive those additional kilowatts of power and launched an attack.

      Not only did he immediately pass everyone between him and Wehrlein, but Pascal was elegantly slowed down by da Costa, allowing Evans to overtake both and move into 4th place. Meanwhile, the championship leader's situation worsened, as he was overtaken by a whole group of drivers in the general chaos on the track, and he found himself outside the points-scoring top ten!

      Meanwhile, Jake Dennis was making his way forward and had already climbed to 7th place, and if Wehrlein couldn't earn points under these circumstances, the championship would go to the Briton. But Pascal was not going to give up and, thanks to Attack Mode, managed to overtake da Costa and set off in pursuit of Dennis.

      Then the following happened: both title contenders acted too aggressively, collided, blocking half the track, and pieces of carbon flew from their cars... Meanwhile, almost all competitors passed by, Dennis returned to the pits, and Wehrlein found himself in 15th place in his damaged Porsche electric car.

      Evans activated his last Attack Mode and tried to catch up with the top three, but it was already too late, and accomplishing this task was practically impossible. Barnard led, having overtaken the distracted de Vries and Mortara literally on the last lap, while the New Zealander was more than seven seconds behind.

      Thus, the race ended: to the immense joy of the DS Penske team, Taylor Barnard became the youngest race winner in Formula E history, Nyck de Vries took 2nd place, and his teammate finished 3rd. Mitch Evans did everything he could, and thanks to the points earned for 4th place, Jaguar Racing won the championship in the team standings, surpassing Porsche.

      And the title went, of course, to Pascal Wehrlein – although he finished only 14th, his points reserve was enough to become world champion for the second time in his career. Even if today's race ended quite differently than he would have liked.

      The Jaguar team sincerely thanked António Félix da Costa, who did everything he could to help his teammate, and it was not his fault that Mitch Evans could not achieve the maximum program. However, Wehrlein promised that sooner or later he would settle the score with the Portuguese for unsporting methods on the track.

      "Thank you so much to my team! What we achieved this weekend is yet another outstanding accomplishment," Pascal commented after the finish. "We stood firm despite the pressure because when you overcome everything, you only get better.

      As for today's race, the driving style demonstrated by António was the most unsporting and incorrect I've ever seen. When you have enemies in the paddock, it happens like this. And yet we won the title. But I want to add one more thing: I don't forget such things.

      However, the championship is behind us, and now we need to have a good offseason, and I will try to forget what happened today as soon as possible."

      So, the 13th season of the electric series is indeed over, but the era of third-generation Formula E cars has also ended, and the championship is moving to GEN4 technology, so there is still a lot of interesting things ahead.

      Wehrlein scored 169 points this year and became the second Formula E driver after Jean-Éric Vergne to win two titles; Jake Dennis was just 5 points behind him, and Mitch Evans finished the season in third place with 160 points. There is a high probability that all three will be among the main contenders for victories next season as well.