2025 Jeddah E-Prix II

2025 Jeddah E-Prix II
The modified Jeddah Corniche Circuit debuted in 2025.
Race Information
Date	15 February 2025
E-Prix No.	136 (4 of 2024/25)
Official Name	2025 ABB Formula E Jeddah E-Prix
Location	Jeddah Corniche E-Prix Circuit Jeddah, Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia
Format	100 km (60 mins)
Lap length	3.001 km (1.865 mi)
Distance	31 laps / 93.031 km (57.807 mi)
Support Race
Qualifying Result
Pole Sitter	Taylor Barnard
Team	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team
Time	1:14.804 (144.425 km/h)
Fastest Lap
Driver	Jake Hughes
Team	Maserati MSG Racing
Fastest Lap	1:18.110 on lap 28
ePrix Result
First	Second	Third
Oliver Rowland	Taylor Barnard	Jake Hughes
Winner Team	Nissan Formula E Team
Time	42:45.212 (130.559 km/h)
ePrix Guide
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Post-Race Test

The 2025 Jeddah E-Prix II, officially the 2025 ABB Formula E Jeddah E-Prix, was the fourth race of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, held at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Jeddah, Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia on 15 February 2025. The race would see Oliver Rowland storm to a dominant victory after taking control of the race late on, as Taylor Barnard made history as the youngest ever pole sitter.

Indeed, Barnard and Rowland would begin the day contesting pole position, and it would be the 20 year old in the customer NEOM McLaren run Nissan e-4ORCE 05 that defeated his former mentor in the factory Nissan in qualifying, beating Rowland by four tenths. En-route to his historic pole Barnard dominated Group B before elbowing António Félix da Costa and Jake Hughes out of contention, while Rowland claimed second in Group A before he defeated the challenges of Maximilian Günther and then Stoffel Vandoorne.

At the start a clean getaway for Barnard saw him lead unopposed into the first corner, as instead all eyes fell on Hughes as the blue Maserati stormed into second elbowing Rowland out of the way as he did so into the first corner. Race one winner Günther was also on the move, sending the #7 DS Penske barreling down the inside of turn four, which would only succeed in taking out both himself and da Costa as the German pilot was unable to prevent his car from taking out the #13 Porsche out in the process.

That early drama, combined with a lack of Pit Boost during the second race, resulted in the field quickly settling down into a peleton-style race, albeit not one to the extremes of previous races. Indeed, the early laps saw Barnard seem quite content to lead the race without worrying about those behind, with Hughes, an aggressive Jean-Éric Vergne and Rowland making up an early top four, while Lucas di Grassi ran in a strong seventh and began the Attack Mode fun on lap four.

di Grassi would subsequently elbow his way up onto the tail of Barnard over the following laps, while Pascal Wehrlein also went early with AM, climbing into the top three after an unusually poor qualifying result left him towards the back of the grid. di Grassi then slipped back as AM was activated by others, while Barnard would slip back behind Rowland, Vergne and Wehrlein in quick succession, wit Nick Cassidy also harrying the #5 McLaren having climbed up from seventeenth on the grid.

Robin Frijns was the next to use AM to its full effect, ascending from seventh to the lead in short order, dragging Mitch Evans in his wake as the Jaguars enjoyed a strong mid-race phase, while Rowland waited longest to take his first AM, and saved energy as he did so. Rowland duly used a quick 2 minute boost to climb back from fourth to the lead and build a two second cushion, prompting Barnard to use his second boost to try and eliminate that gap.

Jake Dennis then joined the fray, storming up to second to lead the hunt of Rowland, just as the race entered its non-conservative phase with the wave of the second AM boosts elevating everyone's pace. With six laps to go the #27 Andretti was firing down the inside of Rowland to claim the lead, although that was soon nulified by Rowland arming his second AM boost and quickly pulling back onto the tail of the former Champion.

Indeed, a lap later and the #23 Nissan was back into the lead and away, not looking back as he powered into a strong three second lead, while Dennis was blindsided by Barnard, who fired past both the #27 Andretti and Vergne to claim second. He would then be surprised by a late charge from Hughes in the closing stages, with the #55 Maserati holding onto its final AM until the last moment to make a late bid for the podium, before setting up a late challenge to Barnard on the final tour.

That fight, combined with his strong pace and well timed use of energy, saw Rowland simply ease away to claim a comfortable victory, his second of the season and one that left him in command on the Championship with a quarter of the season done. Barnard held off Hughes for second, while Hughes himself had to resist a late challenge from Dennis to earn his maiden podium finish for Maserati. Cassidy chased the British quartet across the line to secure his best finish of the season in fifth ahead of Vandoorne, with Vergne on his tail in seventh. Wehrlein tried to make ground with a late AM boost but got caught behind slower traffic so could only manage eighth ahead of Dan Ticktum, while Edoardo Mortara claimed the final point to continue Mahindra's 100% scoring record in season 11.

Background

There were no changes to the field ahead of the second battle of Jeddah although there was a rule change as Pit Boost, which had debuted in the Friday evening race, was not to be used in the Saturday race. Likewise, there would be no extra session for rookie drivers ahead of the second race of the weekend, and the race distance and Attack Mode would remain as they had before, set at 93.031 km and 2x boosts lasting a total of 8 minutes as it had before.

Pit Plays

Oliver Rowland had ended the opening bout in Jeddah at the head of the Championship hunt, the British ace having moved onto 43 points after the opening three races after his second consecutive podium finish. António Félix da Costa had made way for him, but had only slipped four points behind after his recovery drive, while victory had launched Maximilian Günther into third ahead of Taylor Barnard. Mitch Evans then completed the top five ahead of Nyck de Vries and Pascal Wehrlein, with no new names on the scoresheet after race three.

In the Teams' Championship TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team had retained the lead in the title hunt, albeit only because of their healthy haul of points across the opening two races instead of their race three earnings. Indeed, DS Penske had moved up to second after Günther's heroics, leaving them just three off the lead, while NEOM McLaren Formula E Team had kept the pace up in third. Nissan Formula E Team, meanwhile, had retained fourth but moved closer to the title fight, matched by Mahindra Racing, while Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team had retained their status as the only pointless team in Season 11.

For the Manufacturers' Championship it had been a positive day for Nissan, the Japanese manufacturer having jumped ahead of Porsche and established a 25 point lead to boot. Stellantis, meanwhile, had claimed the biggest points haul of the day as they ascended to third ahead of Jaguar, with Mahindra also eyeing up a move up the order, sat just a point behind the British marque.

Entry List

The full entry list for the 2025 Jeddah E-Prix II is displayed below:

2025 Jeddah E-Prix II Entry List
No.	Name	Entrant	Constructor	Car
1	Pascal Wehrlein	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	Porsche	99X Electric
2	Stoffel Vandoorne	Maserati MSG Racing	Maserati	Tipo Folgore
3	David Beckmann	Kiro Race Co.	Porsche	99X Electric WCG3
4	Robin Frijns	Envision Racing	Jaguar	I-Type 7
5	Taylor Barnard	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	Nissan	e-4ORCE 05
7	Maximilian Günther	DS Penske	DS	E-Tense FE25
8	Sam Bird	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	Nissan	e-4ORCE 05
9	Mitch Evans	Jaguar TCS Racing	Jaguar	I-Type 7
11	Lucas di Grassi	Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team	Lola Yamaha	T001
13	António Félix da Costa	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	Porsche	99X Electric
16	Sébastien Buemi	Envision Racing	Jaguar	I-Type 7
17	Norman Nato	Nissan Formula E Team	Nissan	e-4ORCE 05
21	Nyck de Vries	Mahindra Racing	Mahindra	M11Electro
22	Zane Maloney	Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team	Lola Yamaha	T001
23	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E Team	Nissan	e-4ORCE 05
25	Jean-Éric Vergne	DS Penske	DS	E-Tense FE25
27	Jake Dennis	Andretti Formula E	Porsche	99X Electric
33	Dan Ticktum	Kiro Race Co.	Porsche	99X Electric WCG3
37	Nick Cassidy	Jaguar TCS Racing	Jaguar	I-Type 7
48	Edoardo Mortara	Mahindra Racing	Mahindra	M11Electro
51	Nico Müller	Andretti Formula E	Porsche	99X Electric
55	Jake Hughes	Maserati MSG Racing	Maserati	Tipo Folgore
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Practice

Free Practice Results

Outlined below are the results from the Free Practice sessions held as part of the 2025 Jeddah E-Prix II:

Qualifying

Qualifying for the 2025 Jeddah E-Prix II would be conducted according to the knockout format, introduced ahead of season eight. The field would be split into two groups of eleven drivers, based on Championship position, with each group then getting ten minutes on track to complete as many laps as they wished at 300 kW. The fastest eight overall would then proceed to the knockout phase, now running at the maximum 350 kW qualifying mode and with AWD active, with the fastest from group A against the fourth fastest from group A and so on, until four drivers were left.

Those four would move on to the Semi-Final, with the winner of A1/A4 taking on the victor of A2/A3, while the triumphant driver of B3/B2 would take on B4/B1's winner. The winners from those duels would then go into the final, with the winner of that duel taking pole ahead of the runner-up, with any grid penalties applied after the conclusion of the final.

Post Qualifying

The final qualifying result for the 2025 Jeddah E-Prix II are outlined below:

2025 Jeddah E-Prix II Qualifying Results
Final
Heat	Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Time	Gap	Grid
I	Win	5	Taylor Barnard	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	1:14.804 (144.425 km/h)	—	1
	Lose	23	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E Team	1:15.243 (143.583 km/h)	+0.439s	2
Semi-Finals
Heat	Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Time	Gap	Grid
I	Win	23	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E Team	1:15.071 (143.912 km/h)	—	F
	DSQ*	2*	Stoffel Vandoorne	Maserati MSG Racing	1:15.247 (143.575 km/h)	+0.176s	22*
II	Win	5	Taylor Barnard	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	1:15.029 (143.992 km/h)	—	F
	Lose	55	Jake Hughes	Maserati MSG Racing	1:15.460 (143.170 km/h)	+0.431s	3
Quarter Finals
Heat	Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Time	Gap	Grid
QF 1	Win	23	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E Team	1:15.122 (143.814 km/h)	—	SF
	Lose	7	Maximilian Günther	DS Penske	1:15.402 (143.280 km/h)	+0.280s	6
QF 2	DSQ*	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	Maserati MSG Racing	1:15.336 (143.406 km/h)	—	SF
	Lose	8	Sam Bird	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	1:15.418 (143.250 km/h)	+0.088s	7
QF 3	Win	55	Jake Hughes	Maserati MSG Racing	1:15.384 (143.314 km/h)	—	SF
	Lose	48	Edoardo Mortara	Mahindra Racing	1:15.392 (143.299 km/h)	+0.008s	5
QF 4	Win	5	Taylor Barnard	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	1:14.840 (144.356 km/h)	—	SF
	Lose	13	António Félix da Costa	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	1:15.067 (143.919 km/h)	+0.227s	4

Group Stage
Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Time	Gap	Grid	Group
1st	5	Taylor Barnard	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	1:16.922	—	QF 4	GB
2nd	55	Jake Hughes	Maserati MSG Racing	1:16.990	+0.068s	QF 3	GB
3rd	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	Maserati MSG Racing	1:17.020	+0.098s	QF 2	GA
4th	48	Edoardo Mortara	Mahindra Racing	1:17.028	+0.106s	QF 3	GB
5th	13	António Félix da Costa	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	1:17.068	+0.146s	QF 4	GB
6th	23	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E Team	1:17.115	+0.193s	QF 1	GA
7th	21	Nyck de Vries	Mahindra Racing	1:17.156	+0.234s	8	GB
8th	17	Norman Nato	Nissan Formula E Team	1:17.189	+0.267s	10	GB
9th	7	Maximilian Günther	DS Penske	1:17.194	+0.272s	QF 1	GA
10th	8	Sam Bird	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	1:17.196	+0.274s	QF 2	GA
11th	25	Jean-Éric Vergne	DS Penske	1:17.237	+0.315s	12	GB
12th	33	Dan Ticktum	Cupra Kiro	1:17.240	+0.318s	9	GA
13th	3	David Beckmann	Cupra Kiro	1:17.267	+0.345s	11	GA
14th	1	Pascal Wehrlein	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	1:17.298	+0.376s	13	GA
15th	9	Mitch Evans	Jaguar TCS Racing	1:17.300	+0.378s	15	GA
16th	37	Nick Cassidy	Jaguar TCS Racing	1:17.479	+0.557s	17	GA
17th	27	Jake Dennis	Andretti Formula E	1:17.481	+0.559s	19	GA
18th	4	Robin Frijns	Envision Racing	1:17.482	+0.560s	14	GB
19th	11	Lucas di Grassi	Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team	1:17.668	+0.746s	16	GB
20th	23	Sébastien Buemi	Envision Racing	1:17.686	+0.764s	18	GB
21st†	51	Nico Müller	Andretti Formula E	1:17.798	+0.876s	21†	GB
22nd	22	Zane Maloney	Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team	1:18.246	+1.324s	20	GA
Group A 110% Time: 1:24.722
Group B 110% Time: 1:24.614
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• * Vandoorne was disqualified from the results of qualifying for failing post-qualifying scrutineering as the on-board extinguisher was not armed during qualifying.
• ^† Müller earned a three place grid penalty for causing a collision with da Costa during the 2025 Jeddah E-Prix I.

Race

Result

The final classification of the 2025 Jeddah E-Prix II is displayed below, with the fastest lap setter indicated in italics, and the pole sitter shown in bold.

2025 Jeddah E-Prix II Race Result
Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Laps	Race Time	Fastest lap	Pts.
1st	23	Oliver Rowland	Nissan Formula E Team	31	42:45.212	1:18.546	25
2nd	5	Taylor Barnard	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	31	+5.844s	1:18.395	21
3rd	55	Jake Hughes	Maserati MSG Racing	31	+6.855s	1:18.110	16
4th	27	Jake Dennis	Andretti Formula E	31	+7.214s	1:18.949	12
5th	37	Nick Cassidy	Jaguar TCS Racing	31	+7.487s	1:19.032	10
6th	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	Maserati MSG Racing	31	+8.005s	1:18.372	8
7th	25	Jean-Éric Vergne	DS Penske	31	+8.409s	1:18.518	6
8th	1	Pascal Wehrlein	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	31	+11.517s	1:18.692	4
9th	33	Dan Ticktum	Cupra Kiro	31	+14.910s	1:18.703	2
10th	48	Edoardo Mortara	Mahindra Racing	31	+15.964s	1:19.248	1
11th	51	Nico Müller	Andretti Formula E	31	+16.284s	1:19.492
12th*	8	Sam Bird	NEOM McLaren Formula E Team	31	+17.179s	1:17.521*
13th	21	Nyck de Vries	Mahindra Racing	31	+20.788s	1:19.045
14th	4	Robin Frijns	Envision Racing	31	+21.164s	1:20.326
15th	17	Norman Nato	Nissan Formula E Team	31	+21.511s	1:19.105
16th	11	Lucas di Grassi	Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team	31	+22.961s	1:19.309
17th	3	David Beckmann	Cupra Kiro	31	+31.035s	1:20.592
18th	22	Zane Maloney	Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team	31	+1:14.502	1:18.308
19th	16	Sébastien Buemi	Envision Racing	31	+1:18.601	1:18.500
Ret	9	Mitch Evans	Jaguar TCS Racing	22	Retired	1:20.490
Ret	13	António Félix da Costa	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	1	Damage	2:21.568
Ret	7	Maximilian Günther	DS Penske	0	Collision	—
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• * Bird was handed a five second time penalty for not following the race director's instructions. Bird also set the fastest lap of the race (1:17.521) but was ineligible to claim the bonus point as he was not classified in the top ten.

Milestones

• 100th entry for Edoardo Mortara.
• Taylor Barnard claimed his maiden pole position.
  • Barnard also set a new record for youngest ever pole sitter aged 20 years, 259 days.
  • This broke the record set by Daniel Abt at the 2015 Long Beach ePrix (22 years, 112 days).
• Oliver Rowland earned his fifth victory.
• Nissan Formula E Team secured their fourth victory.
  • Seventh win for Nissan as a powertrain manufacturer.

Standings

Oliver Rowland had made his mark on the title hunt with his second victory of the campaign, the British ace leaving Jeddah with 68 points to his credit and a healthy seventeen point lead over his closest challenger. Taylor Barnard was that challenger, the British youth's impressive start to the season having continued after his record breaking evening, while António Félix da Costa had fallen 29 points off the lead in third. Maximilian Günther was next up ahead of Jake Hughes as they completed the top five, while Nick Cassidy had claimed his first points of the campaign to become the season's seventeenth point scorer.

In contrast the Teams' Championship had seriously hotted up with a quarter of the season completed, with the Nissan Formula E Team leaving Jeddah at the head of the hunt, although their lead, entirely due to Rowland's points haul, was just a solitary point. Indeed, their customers the NEOM McLaren Formula E Team had leapt back up to second, while the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team having lost the lead and dropped to third, but remained just four points behind the Japanese factory squad. DS Penske were also within striking distance, just a point further back, while Maserati MSG Racing had moved into the top five with their first podium of the campaign.

For the Manufacturers' Championship, meanwhile, the success of both their factory and customer teams had meant that Nissan had danced away from the rest of the field, the Japanese manufacturer having moved 47 points clear at the head of the field. Likewise, it was a combination of their two factory-esque brands that left Stellantis in second on 83 points, albeit just three ahead of former leaders Porsche. Jaguar, meanwhile, had lost more ground in fourth ahead of Mahindra, while Lola remained at the foot of the table with just a solitary point.

 

2024/25 Drivers Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Oliver Rowland 68 ◄0 2nd Taylor Barnard 51 ▲2 3rd António Félix da Costa 39 ▼1 4th Maximilian Günther 37 ▼1 5th Jake Hughes 27 ▲7 6th Jean-Éric Vergne 26 ▲2 7th Mitch Evans 25 ▼2 8th Pascal Wehrlein 25 ▼1 9th Jake Dennis 25 ▲2 10th Nyck de Vries 24 ▼4 11th Edoardo Mortara 17 ▼1 12th Sam Bird 16 ▼3 13th Stoffel Vandoorne 16 ◄0 14th Nick Cassidy 10 ▲3 15th Sébastien Buemi 6 ▼1 16th Dan Ticktum 6 ▼1 17th Nico Müller 2 ▼1 18th Robin Frijns 0 ◄0 19th Zane Maloney 0 ◄0 20th Norman Nato 0 ◄0 21st David Beckmann 0 ◄0 22nd Lucas di Grassi 0 ◄0

2024/25 Teams Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Nissan Formula E Team 68 ▲3 2nd NEOM McLaren Formula E Team 67 ▲1 3rd TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team 64 ▼2 4th DS Penske 63 ▼2 5th Maserati MSG Racing 43 ▲2 6th Mahindra Racing 41 ▼1 7th Jaguar TCS Racing 35 ▼1 8th Andretti Formula E 27 ◄0 9th Envision Racing 6 ◄0 10th Cupra Kiro 6 ◄0 11th Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team 0 ◄0 2024/25 Manufacturers' Trophy Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Nissan 130 ◄0 2nd Stellantis 83 ▲1 3rd Porsche 80 ▼1 4th Jaguar 58 ◄0 5th Mahindra 52 ◄0 6th Lola 1 ◄0

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