Kicking off the anniversary year: customer and factory teams level at the top of the standings
Porsche enters the new year celebrating 75 years of motor racing history. The Mexico City E-Prix on 10 January, the second round of Season 12 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, marks the start of the anniversary campaign. After the season opener in São Paulo in December, two Porsche teams share the lead in the standings: Andretti Formula E and the Porsche Formula E Team. Porsche has enjoyed success in motorsport together with its customer teams for three-quarters of a century. The first chapter dates back to the 1951 24 Hours of Le Mans, where a factory-prepared 356 SL scored a class win in customer hands.
“Motorsport has been at the heart of our brand for 75 years,” says Thomas Laudenbach, Vice President Porsche Motorsport. “Since then, we have used it as a development platform for future technologies and a place to demonstrate the potential of our sports cars. Andretti and our factory team entering the anniversary year level on points symbolises a key principle: customer racing and our customer teams hold outstanding importance for Porsche. They are the foundation of our motorsport activities.”
Porsche’s record in Mexico City
Porsche can look back on several milestones in its Formula E history in the Mexican capital. In 2022, the highly efficient Porsche 99X Electric topped the podium at an E-Prix for the first time, with Pascal Wehrlein and his then team-mate André Lotterer securing a one-two finish. Lotterer had already taken the maiden pole position in Formula E for Porsche at the Mexico event in 2020. In 2023, Jake Dennis claimed another victory for a Porsche-powered car with the Andretti customer team. Wehrlein won again in 2024, followed by a double podium in 2025 with António Félix da Costa in second and Wehrlein in third. Former World Champion Wehrlein also holds a Formula E record in Mexico as the only driver to have taken four pole positions at the same venue.
Formula E races on a 2.548-kilometre section of the Formula 1 circuit in Mexico City, passing through the Foro Sol baseball stadium as its iconic highlight, and up to 40,000 fans cheer the electric single-seaters in the Autódromo. Unlike combustion-engine racing cars, the high altitude of the venue (2,285 metres above sea level) has no direct impact on the power output of the highly efficient Porsche 99X Electric. Porsche celebrated victories in Mexico City even before the start of its Formula E programme, as in 2016, Timo Bernhard, Mark Webber and Brendon Hartley dominated the FIA World Endurance Championship round in the Porsche 919 Hybrid. The following year, Bernhard and Hartley repeated the win alongside Earl Bamber.
Standings after 1 of 17 races
Drivers’ Championship
1. Jake Dennis (GBR), 25 points
2. Oliver Rowland (GBR), 19 points
3. Nick Cassidy (NZL), 15 points
4. Pascal Wehrlein (GER), 15 points
5. Nico Müller (SUI), 10 points
12. Felipe Drugovich (BRA), 0 points
14. Pepe Martí (ESP), 0 points
20. Dan Ticktum (GBR), 0 points
Teams’ Championship
1. Andretti Formula E (USA), 25 points
2. Porsche Formula E Team (GER), 25 points
3. Nissan Formula E Team (JPN), 19 points
10. CUPRA KIRO (USA), 0 points
Manufacturers’ Championship
1. Porsche, 37 points
2. Stellantis, 25 points
3. Nissan, 18 points
The official points’ standings can be found on the Formula E website.
Formula E live on TV and online
The second race of the season begins on 10 January at 14:05 local time (21:05 CET), with qualifying at 9:40 local time (16:40 CET).