Pascal Wehrlein secured pole position for Race 1 of the London E-Prix on Saturday, August 15, 2026. Facing teammate Nico M\u00fcller in the final duel, the German lagged behind throughout the lap but saw his route simplified when M\u00fcller lifted off through the final sector. The tactical move handed the #94 Porsche driver pole position alongside 3 bonus points\u2014drawing him level with Jaguar’s Mitch Evans in second place in the Drivers’ Championship standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mitch Evans and Cupra Kiro’s Dan Ticktum were eliminated in the semi-finals, securing the second row of the grid. Jake Dennis, Joel Eriksson, Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa, and Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne completed the top eight drivers who progressed to the duel stage. Oliver Rowland was the sole title contender eliminated during the group phase, placing 7th in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brazilian drivers Felipe Drugovich and Lucas Di Grassi failed to advance from Group A. Drugovich placed eighth in the group, while veteran Di Grassi finished tenth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Group A featured Jake Dennis, Pascal Wehrlein, Edoardo Mortara, Nick Cassidy, Nyck de Vries, Felipe Drugovich, Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne, Dan Ticktum, Lucas Di Grassi, and Norman Nato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Title rivals tangled early in the session when De Vries chopped across Dennis at Turn 19, making contact with the Andretti car. Dennis complained over team radio that the Dutchman hampered his opening flying lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once clear, Dennis surged to the top, displacing Wehrlein. Lucas Di Grassi temporarily moved up to third before Wehrlein reclaimed top spot, accompanied by Ticktum. Mortara lost rear stability at Turn 16, returning to the pits without completing a final run. Vergne made late improvements to snatch the final duel spot, while Mortara, De Vries, Cassidy, Drugovich, Nato, and Di Grassi were eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Group B comprised Mitch Evans, Oliver Rowland, Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa, Nico M\u00fcller, S\u00e9bastien Buemi, Pepe Mart\u00ed, Joel Eriksson, Taylor Barnard, Maximilian G\u00fcnther, and Zane Maloney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
M\u00fcller set early pace before Eriksson and Barnard registered competitive times. Evans aborted a promising lap in sector two before responding with the fastest time, only to be overhauled by M\u00fcller and Eriksson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rowland opened the final runs but failed to improve, missing the duels. Evans jumped to second, while Da Costa claimed fourth from Buemi to join M\u00fcller, Evans, and Eriksson in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pascal Wehrlein<\/strong> def. Nico M\u00fcller (M\u00fcller lifted in the final sector to hand pole and 3 bonus points to Wehrlein)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nico M\u00fcller proved faster than Pascal Wehrlein during the final duel, but backed off in the final corner to hand pole position to his teammate, who continues his World Championship push alongside Jake Dennis and Mitch Evans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1020311924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"42wp_featured_image_caption":"Pascal Wehrlein starts on pole","42wp_featured_image_credits":"Formula E","42wp_featured_video":"","42wp_featured_image_hidden":false,"42wp_authors_list":[],"footnotes":"","42wp_breaking_news":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[205,135],"42wp_author":[93],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-e","tag-london-e-prix","tag-pascal-werhlein","42wp_author-marcos-gil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020311924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"42wp_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/42wp_author?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}London E-Prix Race 1 Starting Grid<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
POS<\/td> Driver<\/td> Team<\/td> Diff<\/td><\/tr> 1<\/td> P WEHRLEIN<\/td> Porsche<\/td> 1:07.587<\/td><\/tr> 2<\/td> N M\u00dcLLER<\/td> Porsche<\/td> 1:08.730<\/td><\/tr> 3<\/td> M EVANS<\/td> Jaguar<\/td> 1:07.767<\/td><\/tr> 4<\/td> D TICKTUM<\/td> Cupra Kiro<\/td> 1:10.125<\/td><\/tr> 5<\/td> J DENNIS<\/td> Andretti<\/td> 1:07.605<\/td><\/tr> 6<\/td> J ERIKSSON<\/td> Envision<\/td> 1:07.820<\/td><\/tr> 7<\/td> A F\u00c9LIX DA COSTA<\/td> Jaguar<\/td> 1:07.883<\/td><\/tr> 8<\/td> JE VERGNE<\/td> Citro\u00ebn<\/td> 1:07.957<\/td><\/tr> 9<\/td> N DE VRIES<\/td> Mahindra<\/td> 1:09.470<\/td><\/tr> 10<\/td> S BUEMI<\/td> Envision<\/td> 1:09.278<\/td><\/tr> 11<\/td> N CASSIDY<\/td> Citro\u00ebn<\/td> 1:09.542<\/td><\/tr> 12<\/td> T BARNARD<\/td> DS Penske<\/td> 1:09.299<\/td><\/tr> 13<\/td> O ROWLAND<\/td> Nissan<\/td> 1:09.400<\/td><\/tr> 14<\/td> F DRUGOVICH<\/td> Andretti<\/td> 1:09.569<\/td><\/tr> 15<\/td> JM MART\u00cd<\/td> Cupra Kiro<\/td> 1:09.643<\/td><\/tr> 16<\/td> N NATO<\/td> Nissan<\/td> 1:09.637<\/td><\/tr> 17<\/td> Z MALONEY<\/td> Lola Yamaha<\/td> 1:09.735<\/td><\/tr> 18<\/td> E MORTARA<\/td> Mahindra<\/td> 1:09.544<\/td><\/tr> 19<\/td> L DI GRASSI<\/td> Lola Yamaha<\/td> 1:09.728<\/td><\/tr> 20<\/td> M G\u00dcNTHER<\/td> DS Penske<\/td> 1:15.347<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"