Formula E Season 12 Rounds 4 and 5: Wehrlein and Da Costa claim victories across the weekend

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Rounds 4 and 5 have come and gone from Formula E A few days ago with many storylines happening and coming out of the race weekend.

Round 4:

Mahindra Highs and Lows
Oh boy, what a wild race for the Mahindra guys. Before we even went racing, De Vires had an issue that he could not even do a burnout or engage drive so that delayed the start and reduced the grid down to 19. Once the race got going though, Mortara had a MASSIVE amount of wheelspin and fell down a few places off the start. Thankfully for the Indian team and Swiss driver he climbed back up to P2, although it was a big “what might have been” for Mortara.

Marti vs Maloney Part 1:
First lap and first contact between the full time rookie and sophomore rookie in the electric pinnacle of motorsport. On lap 1, Marti was fighting for position but Maloney went up the inside, Marti didn’t see him and ended up causing the boy from Barbados to DNF on lap 1 of race 1 of the weekend while Marti finished outside the points.

Pit Boost Change of Positions:
Due to the safety car for Maloney’s Lola Yamaha Abt stuck at the side of the road, pit boost activation didn’t occur until lap 16. Rowland, Eriksson and Barnard were the first to take their pit boost but Eriksson went too far wide in his pitstop and received a penalty due to this.

Wehrlein Takes Off:
After all of the pit boosts and attack modes were taken, Wehrlein had already reached a large gap between himself and the eventual P2 finisher of Mortara. Wehrlein eventually built an 8 second gap before Mortara took a late attack mode to get within 3 seconds of Wehrlein.

Position	Driver	Team
1st	Pascal Wehrlein	Porsche Formula E Team
2nd	Edoardo Mortara	Mahindra Racing
3rd	Mitch Evans	Jaguar TCS Racing
4th	Nico Mueller	Porsche Formula E Team
5th	Antonio Felix Da Costa	Jaguar TCS Racing
6th	Nick Cassidy	Citroen Racing
7th	Sebastian Buemi	Envision Racing
8th	Jean-Eric Vergne	Citroen Racing
9th	Jake Dennis	Andretti Formula E
10th	Taylor Barnard	DS Penske
11th	Max Guenther	DS Penske
12th	Dan Ticktum	Cupra Kiro
13th	Norman Nato	Nissan Formula E Team
14th	Pepe Marti	Cupra Kiro
15th	Felipe Drugovich	Andretti Formula E
16th	Lucas Di Grassi	Lola Yamaha Abt Formula E Team
17th	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E Team
18th	Joel Eriksson	Envision Racing
DNF	Zane Maloney	Lola Yamaha Abt Formula E Team
DNS	Nyck De Vries	Mahindra Racing

Round 5:
Maloney vs Marti Part 2
The battle of the 2 F2 graduates from 2024 has taken shape as they both had small contact going into the final chicane. It wasn’t as big as yesterday but this battle could rage on.

Cupra Kiro Controversy:
At the latter stages of the race, the two cupra kiro teammates Dan Ticktum and Pepe Marti nearly collided and threw away a double points finish for the team. Marti used an expletive which was not good but he seemed very heated about it. Thankfully the situation didn’t result in either teammates DNFing but the debrief should have been spicy.

Championship Heats up
Da Costa’s Jaguar journey had a slow start with not scoring points until Miami at the previous venue. However, his form has returned with Jaguar now winning 2 of the past 3 races and the battle for the championships heating up.

With Wehrlein then scoring 4 points in the final race of the weekend, the top 2 in the championship are seperated by 6 points with P3, P4 ,P5 and P6 seperated by 4 points.

Position	Driver	Team	Championship Position
1st	Antonio Felix Da Costa	Jaguar TCS Racing	7th (+26pts)
2nd	Sebastian Buemi	Envision Racing	9th (+18 pts)
3rd	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E Team	3rd (+15 pts)
4th	Edoardo Mortara	Mahindra Racing	2nd (+15pts)
5th	Dan Ticktum	Cupra Kiro	14th (+10pts)
6th	Pepe Marti	Cupra Kiro	11th (+9pts)
7th	Mitch Evans	Jaguar TCS Racing	5h (+6pts)
8th	Pascal Wehrlein	Porsche Formula E Team	1st(+4pts)
9th	Jean-Eric Vergne	Citroen Racing	15th (+2pts)
10th	Taylor Barnard	DS Penske	12th (+1pt)
11th	Max Guenther	DS Penske	16th
12th	Felipe Drugovich	Andretti Formula E	19th
13th	Joel Eriksson	Envision Racing	10th
14th	Nick Cassidy	Citroen Racing	4th
15th	Lucas Di Grassi	Lola Yamaha Abt Formula E	20th
16th	Nico Mueller	Porsche Formula E Team	6th
17th	Norman Nato	Nissan Formula E Team	18th
18th	Zane Maloney	Lola Yamaha Abt Formula E	17th
19th	Jake Dennis	Andretti Formula E	8th
20th	Nyck De Vries	Mahindra Racing	13th