Wehrlein’s London win sets up thrilling three-way title showdown in finale

Pascal Wehrlein set up a thrilling three-way championship showdown for Sunday’s final race of the season by winning the first London EPrix.

The Porsche driver won an incident-filled first race of the weekend at the London ExCel arena to take a slim championship lead and force a close title decider between himself and the two Jaguar drivers, Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy.

Starting from third, Wehrlein passed Evans to take the lead and remained ahead over the later laps to take the chequered flag first ahead of Evans. Maximilian Guenther had overtaken Evans to take second place, but he suddenly lost power in his Maserati after a late Safety Car restart which forced him into retirement and promoted Sebastien Buemi up to the podium in third.

The two Mahindras of Nyck de Vries and Edoardo Mortara finished fourth and fifth, ahead of Nico Mueller. Nick Cassidy looked to be under threat of failing to score any points for the majority of the race before finishing ninth on the road, but was promoted up to seventh thanks to time penalties for Jake Dennis and Sacha Fenestraz ahead of him.

Sam Bird recovered from being caught behind Robin Frijns’ crashed Envision on the opening lap to score points in eighth, while Stoffel Vandoorne and Norman Nato scooped up the final points in ninth and tenth, respectively.

The dramatic race sees Wehrlein head into the climactic final race with a narrow three-point lead in the championship ahead of Evans, with Cassidy just seven points off the top of the table in third. Reigning champion Dennis, Antonio Felix da Costa, Oliver Rowland and Jean-Eric Vergne were all mathematically eliminated from contention with their results.

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Race result

Pos.	No.	Team	Driver	Car
1	94	Porsche	Pascal Wehrlein	Porsche 99X Electric Gen3
2	9	Jaguar	Mitch Evans	Jaguar I-Type 6
3	16	Envision	Sebastien Buemi	Jaguar I-Type 6
4	21	Mahinda	Nyck de Vries	Mahindra M10Electro
5	48	Mahinda	Edoardo Mortara	Mahindra M10Electro
6	51	Abt Cupra	Nico Mueller	Mahindra M10Electro
7	37	Jaguar	Nick Cassidy	Jaguar I-Type 6
8	8	McLaren	Sam Bird	Nissan e-4ORCE 04
9	2	DS Penske	Stoffel Vandoorne	DS E-TENSE FE23
10	17	Andretti	Norman Nato	Porsche 99X Electric Gen3
11	11	Abt Cupra	Lucas di Grassi	Mahindra M9Electro
12	3	ERT	Sergio Sette Camara	ERT X24
13	33	ERT	Dan Ticktum	ERT X24
14	23	Nissan	Sacha Fenestraz	Nissan e-4ORCE 04
15	22	McLaren	Oliver Rowland	Nissan e-4ORCE 04
16	1	Andretti	Jake Dennis	Porsche 99X Electric Gen3
17	25	DS Penske	Jean-Eric Vergne	DS E-TENSE FE23
18	18	Maserati	Jehan Daruvala	Maserati Tipo Folgore
19	7	Maserati	Maximilian Guenther	Maserati Tipo Folgore
20	5	McLaren	Jake Hughes	Nissan e-4ORCE 04
21	13	Porsche	Antonio Felix da Costa	Porsche 99X Electric Gen3
22	4	Envision	Robin Frijns	Jaguar I-Type 6

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