Formula E: Barnard won the race, and Verlaine took the 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 individual 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 drivers of the Indian team Mahindra were not contenders for the championship, so they posed no 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 scoring 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 the British Andretti driver.

      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, executing the tactical setup 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 tried to wedge himself between the two Mahindra electric cars, but was unsuccessful.

      In any case, the Portuguese secured third place, which he only relinquished to Taylor Barnard, a DS Penske driver, when Barnard activated Attack Mode. But 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 gold 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 percent lower than on Mitch Evans' Jaguar, which foreshadowed 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 the 15th lap, 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 the 17th lap, 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, when half the distance was behind him, he was only in 8th place, and Wehrlein was 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 was still in 8th place, while he was caught up by Jean-Éric Vergne, a Citroen driver. Only on the 26th lap did Mitch finally receive those additional kilowatts of power and launched an attack.

      Not only did he immediately pass everyone who was between him and Wehrlein, but Pascal was elegantly slowed down by da Costa, allowing Evans to overtake both and move up to 4th place. Meanwhile, the situation for the championship leader worsened, as a whole group of drivers passed him 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 position, and if Wehrlein couldn't score points under such 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 the 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 team championship, 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 far from how 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 become 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 still, 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 much interesting ahead.

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