Formula E Season 12 Round 3: Evans Secures Race Win Record with Victory in Miami

Formula E returned to the sunside state of Miami on January 31st 2026 and the race brought new records, a divide on setups and a difference from Mexico.

In between Qualifying and the race, the weather changed and the track was made wet. Due to this, teams and drivers decided to change setups to adapt to the wet while others stayed on the dry setups. The weather change led to the race also having 5 of the 39 laps behind the safety car before the race director called for a standing start.

Once the race got going under green flag conditions, Drugovich immediately went for attack mode to get to the front of the pack. Other drivers like Evans, Da Costa and De Vries followed him while others opted for a different strategy. While they were on the wet setups this was the ideal setup and strategy as the track never dried up.

The drivers who were further down the field on the start such as Dan Ticktum and Max Guenther opted for a dry setup in order to try and get up the field incase the track dried up. As a result, they ended up getting lapped with Ticktum retiring from the race and scoring 0 points again as a result.

As a result of these 2 groups during the race, all 3 championships have had shifts.

While Cassidy maintains the lead in the championship, Wehrlein has closed up to only 2 points behind him, Dennis is 1 point behind the German driver, Rowland is then 3 points behind Dennis with Mueller 1 point behind Rowland. To put it simply: the top 5 in the championship are within 1 race win between each other. Every other driver has scored at least 1 point this season apart from Drugovich, Di Grassi and Ticktum.

In his first home race for Andretti, Felipe Drugovich brought his Andretti (with the TWG AI livery) onto the front row of the grid and led the race for a few laps before remaining in a high points paying position throughout most of the racre.

However, towards turn 13, the Brazilian crashed with the Jaguar of Da Costa and ended up falling down the grid, pitted for a new wing for received a 10 second time penalty which ultimately cost himself and Da Costa a better haul of points, considering Drugovich has scored…0.

With a run of tracks Felipe has somewhat experience at (Jeddah is a modified version of F1/F2 layout), Madrid and Berlin(Where Felipe raced last year) he has to capitalise on these opportunities.

Lets see how the predictions did for the Miami E-Prix…

Pole Position: Taylor Barnard ❌
Barnard was showing speed in the group stages but sadly he couldn’t capitalise during the duels so he got knocked out early on.

1st Place: Pepe Marti ❌
I’m sorry if I jinxed Pepe for this prediction. He made some good moves during the race and had some good battles to score points again.

2nd Place: Oliver Rowland ❌
A weekend to forget for Rowland and Nissan in general. They just couldn’t get into the groove throughout the race whereas Nato made it through to the duels so that is some level of optimism.

Position	Driver	Team	Championship Position
1st	Mitch Evans	Jaguar TCS Racing	6th (+26pts)
2nd	Nico Mueller	Porsche Formula E Team	P5 (+21pts)
3rd	Padcal Wehrlein	Porsche Formula E Team	2nd (+15pts)
4th	Joel Eriksson	Envision Racing	P8(+12pts)
5th	Nyck De Vries	Mahindra Racing	P11 (+10pts)
6th	Edoardo Mortara	Mahindra Racing	P7 (+8pts)
7th	Sebastian Buemi	Envision Racing	P9 (+6pts)
8th	Antonio Felix Da Costa	Jaguar TCS Racing	P14 (+4pts)
9th	Pepe Marti	Cupra Kiro	P13 (+2pts)
10th	Jake Dennis	Andretti Formula E	3rd(1pts)
11th	Zane Maloney	Lola Yamaha Abt	P16 (+0pts)
12th	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E	4th (+0pts)
13th	Lucas Di Grassi	Lola Yamaha Abt	P19 (+0pts)
14th	Taylor Barnard	DS Penske	P10 (+0pts)
15th	Jean-Eric Vergne	Citreon Racing	P15 (+0pts)
16th	Nick Cassidy	Citreon Racing	P1 (+0pts)
17th	Norman Nato	Nissan Formula E	P17 (+0pts)
18th	Felipe Drugovich	Andretti Formula E	P18 (+0pts)
19th	Maximilian Guenther	DS Penske	P12 (+0pts)
DNF	Dan Ticktum	Cupra Kiro	P20 (+0pts)