Hello all! Another thing of note is that the Cupra Kiro team have a new livery for this weekend to promote the new 'Masters of the Universe' film which stars team co-owner Idris Elba and releases on June 3rd (this is all I know about the film). Will this race be full of incidents like race 1? Lets find out.
The next Formula E race will be the 2026 Sanya ePrix, the last single race venue this season, with the race on 20th June 2026 at 07:00 UTC. You can find out where to watch it here.

Qualifying

Group A consisted of: Mitch Evans, Edoardo Mortara, Nico Mueller, Jake Dennis, Sebastien Buemi, Nyck de Vries, Dan Ticktum, Felipe Drugovich, Norman Nato, and Lucas Di Grassi. There were no issues in this group, although Lucas would change his MCU inverter and gearbox prior to the race and pick up a 40 place grid penalty. The top 4 in group A and thus made it to the Duel stage were: Dan, Edoardo, Mitch, and Felipe.
Group B went next and consisted of Pascal Wehrlein, Oliver Rowland, Nick Cassidy, Antonio Felix da Costa, Josep Maria 'Pepe' Marti, Joel Eriksson, Taylor Barnard, Jean-Eric Vergne, Max Guenther, and Zane Maloney. Nothing of note happened during this session, except Max falling foul of track limits on his first push lap, which would have seen him make it through to the Duel stage in 2nd if that lap was legal. The 4 that made it into Duel stage from group B were: Taylor, Oliver, Jean-Eric, and Antonio.
The 1st Quarter-Final was between Mitch and Edoardo, with the latter winning by 0.221 seconds while the 2nd Quarter-Final was between Felipe and Dan with the latter winning by 0.142 seconds after Felipe's rear got loose through the final corner costing him about 0.326 seconds. Quarter-Final 3 was between Jean-Eric and Oliver, which saw the former advance by 0.245 seconds and the final Quarter-Final was between Antonio and Taylor which saw the former moving on by 0.001 seconds. Semi-Final 1 was between Edoardo and Dan, which the latter won by 0.197 seconds and Semi-Final 2 was between Antonio and Jean-Eric, with the latter winning by 0.015 seconds. The Final saw Dan winning by a ginormous 0.676 seconds to claim his 2nd pole position in a row.

Race

Overall Drivers' Championship

Oliver Rowland wins the ePrix from Felipe Drugovich in 2nd and Antonio Felix da Costa in 3rd. Like with yesterday's race, there are a lot of incidents this race, although most are not immediately race-ending. The first incident happens on lap 1 where Edoardo Mortara's front nose catches the rear of Antonio's car through turn 10 and spins the latter around, while the former picks up a 10-second time penalty. The next one comes at the end of lap 5, where Taylor Barnard tries to lunge Norman Nato into turn 19, but isn't far enough along as he thinks he is and the 2 make contact, pushing Norman wide which smacks the barrier with rear of his car and damages the left-rear suspension, forcing retirement. Taylor picks up a 10 time penalty for the incident, but that is not his last penalty this race. Incident number 3 is on lap 10 (I think, we never see it live and the penalty notice only states the time of the incident rather than the lap it occurred on) when Max Guenther and Sebastien Buemi collide on the exit of turn 6 after Sebastien takes a wide entry, in an effort not to run into the back Jake Dennis, before cutting back to the apex while Max sees the door open and takes the tightest possible line through the corner, contact is made and Sebastien's car is lifted to near 45 degree angle. Max Guenther is awarded a 5-second penalty. The next set of incidents sees no penalties applied as Mueller is sent wide through turn 17 after contact with Jean-Eric on lap 17, which damages Jean-Eric's front wing and then at some point before turn 2 on lap 18, Sebastien Buemi picked up a puncture although we do not know who inflicted that upon him, although the likely suspects are Antonio and Pascal Wehrlein (the former is behind into turn 19 on lap 17 and the latter is behind into turn 1 on lap 18). At the end of lap 18, Nick Cassidy overtakes Pepe Marti in the brake zone for turn 17, only for Pepe to try to take the conventional line through the corner and connects with Nick and sends both of them wide and into the barriers. Nick can reverse out and continue, Pepe can't and a Full Course Yellow (FCY) is called on lap 19 and to rub salt in the wound for Pepe, he gets a 10-second penalty converted to a 5-place gird penalty as he doesn't finish the e Prix and thus cannot serve the time penalty. However, before the FCY is called, Taylor spins Jean-Eric around through turn 10 and earns another 10-second penalty (if you are wondering how, see Edoardo/Antonio incident on lap 1). 2 drivers speed under this FCY, Dan Ticktum and Max, with the latter seeing his 5-second penalty be later converted to a 3-place grid penalty and as to why? - he does end up finishing outside the top 10 (the points scoring places in real life) and is 5 over seconds ahead of the car behind (a whole 17.084 seconds to be exact) but his other penalty isn't converted. Taylor's 2 penalties are converted, but that is probably because he finishes 45.359 seconds of the winner after out-braking himself into turn 8 in attempt to overtake Mitch Evans on lap 26. Dear Stewards, I'd like some consistency on which penalties are converted into grid penalties and which drivers it gets applied to. Signed, Me The final set of incidents occur on lap 25 when Jake squeezes Dan on the exit of turn 6, into the outside barrier, causing damage to the front right corner of Dan's car which hurts him through all fast left handers, such as turn 12, where he, Jake, and Nyck de Vries make contact on the same lap because he has to slow down more for it because he hasn't got the downforce on his front right to take it at the conventional speed.
While there were a lot of penalty-worthy incidents this week, I do feel like some of the penalties were harsher than normal and I think this the Stewards reaction to the Drivers' complaint about their standards, seeing as the 2 groups had a talk out in Berlin last time. Will this clean up the racing? Probably, but I fear a driver is going to have a race ruined by an overly harsh penalty or the racing becomes too clean and drivers don't make moves out of fear of getting over-penalised and so they start to let more things slide in an effort to generate more overtakes and then we cycle back to square one - again.

1. Mitch Evans (=0)
2. Oliver Rowland (+2)
3. Edoardo Mortara (=0)
4. Pascal Wehrlein (-2)
5. Nico Mueller (=0)
6. Antonio Felix da Costa (+3)

All drivers have more points under the alternative format compared to their real life totals, with the one who has the most points compared to real life is Max Guenther, who has 37 more points under the alternative format (47) compared to real life (10). There are differences between the standings and the driver who gains the most position's under the alternative format is Max who gains 3 places to be 15th under alternative format compared to 18th in real life, while the drivers who loses the most positions are Nick Cassidy, Nyck De Vries, and Dan Ticktum who all drop 2 places to be 9th, 12th, and 16th respectively under the alternative format, but are 7th, 10th, and 14th respectively in real life. Also, this now the first time in Formula E that Mitch Evans has lead the standings in 2 consecutive races (in real life).
Below are the overall Drivers' Championship standings:

Customer Trophy for Drivers

The class is won by Felipe Drugovich with 2nd in class going to Joel Eriksson, and 3rd to Jake Dennis. This means for the first time since Season 7, all full-time competitors in the class have scored a class win in the season. Dan Ticktum leads from the opening set of corners until lap 13, where Jake blasts past him up Beau Rivage (turn 2) using his Attack Mode and then Jake relinquishes the lead to his teammate a lap later into turn 1. Dan retakes the lead on lap 17, when he overtakes Felipe through turn 2 via the extra power of Attack Mode, although loses it when Felipe overtakes him into turn 10 on lap 20 for the final overtake for the class lead. Pepe Marti's DNF costs him 4th in the standings to Felipe and we have now hit the point of mathematical ineligibility for the top 3, because there are 140 points left on the table which is less than 3rd place's points total. This means that if you were to enter the championship from the next race onwards, you would not be able to win the title even if you scored maximum points on whomever was leading the standings.
Below are the Customer Trophy for Drivers standings:

Nelson Piquet Jr Trophy

The winner of the class is Felipe Drugovich, with 2nd going to Joel Eriksson and 3rd to Nico Mueller. Felipe leads after the first corner until lap 5, where Nico passes him through turn 12 thanks to Attack Mode. Felipe regains the lead on lap 14 when he passes Nico up through turn 2 after the latter slowed down by Edoardo's lunge through turn 1 and holds on to take his 2nd class win. Like in the Customer Trophy for Drivers, Pepe's DNF has forced him to swap places with Felipe in the standings and has allowed Nico to grow his lead on 2nd places by 4 points. Also we have reached the point of mathematical ineligibility for the top 4, so any new entrant can only right now outscore Zane Maloney.
Below are the Nelson Piquet Jr Trophy standings:

Overall Teams' Championship

Jaguar TCS Racing continue lead the standings under both formats from Porsche Formula E Team and Mahindra Racing, who are 2nd and 3rd respectively in the standings under both formats. All teams have more points under the alternative format compared to real life and There are 2 changes between the 2 formats in terms of the standings as that Envision Racing are ahead of Nissan Formula E Team under the alternative format but are behind in real life and the same applies for Andretti Formula E and Citroen Racing Formula E Team respectively. The biggest gainer in terms of points is DS Penske who have 44 more points under the alternative format (70) compared to real life (26).
Below are the overall Teams' Championship standings:

Customer Teams' Championship

Andretti Formula E return to the lead of the standings, courtesy of their 4th class win and their 4 class 2nd places, as they tie Envision Racing on points. It is mathematically impossible for a new entrant to make any direct difference to the standings, as we have hit the point of mathematical ineligibility (see Customer Trophy Drivers section for details) for all three teams.
Below are the Customer Teams' Championship standings:

Manufacturers' Cup

Jaguar now lead the Manufacturers standings, but only under the alternative format, as Porsche still rule the roost in real life, so are 2nd in real life. Porsche are 2nd under alternative format and 3rd under alternative format is Stellantis but they are 5th in real life, as Mahindra are 3rd in real life. Porsche and Jaguar are the only manufacturers to have less points under the alternative format, with Porsche having the biggest discrepancy at 43 points. The biggest gainer in terms of points is still Lola-Yamaha, whose 117 points under the alternative format is 79 points greater than their real life total of 38.
Below are the Manufacturers' Cup standings: