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.

Formula E is back after a few weeks off with a new-ish circuit on the calendar, new drivers in the rookie Free Practice Sessions and more!

Rookie Free Practice Session:

The first rookie session of 2026 takes place this week at the Hardrock Stadium ahead of this week’s Miami E-Prix. These is a mixture of male and female competitors which is amazing for the sport. Here are the lineups:


A vast range of talent across this rookie grid including champions, podium sitters and more! The future is bright for Formula E

3 vowles in Miami, the 3rd time Formula E has raced in Miami. First at the Biscayne Bay Street Circuit where Nico Prost won the race with e.dams Renault! Last year was the second running with chaos towards the latter stage of the race and attack mode resulting in penalties for many drivers which led to Wehrlein taking the win.

Now, we return to the circuit that hosted the evo sessions last year during Formula E’s massive mid season break. Although the layout is different, the tension is high.

The layout consists of 14 turns with a 2.32km length. The layout is somewhat similar to Formula One but the majority of sector 1 is gone for Formula E. Sector 2 and 3 can be similar in parts but it will be interesting to see how this goes!

Pole Position: Taylor Barnard

The young Briton has shown some very strong pace in just 2 races for his new team at DS Penske this year. Around a new track where most of the drivers will be new to this circuit, I think this will put most of the drivers on an even playing field….well most of them.

Race Podium
1st Place:
Pepe Marti
Is this a bold claim? Yes. However, as it was mentioned previously, Pepe Marti will be the only driver to take part in the the rookie test who is also a full time driver! This gives him an extra 40 minutes of driving time which is CRITICAL for all drivers. My gut is saying to go for this so I’m trusting my gut.

2nd Place
Oliver Rowland
The reigning champion is quietly going about his journey of collecting podiums in every race this year. Sao Paulo and Mexico City are done now next on his list will be Miami.

3rd Place
Edoardo Mortara
Initially, I was going to go for Dennis (which I could regret) but I think Mahindra could come alive at Miami. Of course, I could be right and I could be wrong but Mortara found form in Mexico to finish P2 so a step down on the podium after a chaotic race could happen.