Oliver Rowland may have wrapped up the title with two races to spare, but there's plenty to still get excited about as the 2024-25 Formula E world championship comes to a close at the ExCeL in London this weekend.
Teams' + manufacturers' titles up for grabs
Porsche enjoys a 23-point advantage over Nissan in their season-long teams' championship race.
Nissan's paucity of points in the last three events has tipped the balance Porsche's way, and largely it is down to the lopsided ratio of points scored at Nissan - with Rowland taking 184 of the 205 it's scored this season.
Porsche covets this title greatly and should it win it will go some way to appeasing the slight disappointment it felt last season when Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Felix da Costa's combined seven wins were not enough to stop Jaguar beating Porsche to the teams' title.
In the manufacturers' race, the first absolutely official one as a world championship, Porsche has a slightly condensed lead of seven points over Nissan. With customer Andretti usually very strong in London it makes Porsche the favourite for a double-title haul come Sunday afternoon.
Other battles in the teams' race include the possibility that Jaguar, in recent red-hot form, could usurp the DS Penske operation for third. That gap stands at just six points in DS Penske's favour, although that team's reliability has been sketchy so far this season in races.
McLaren and Mahindra are in a fight for fifth position, with the outgoing McLaren a single point ahead of the resurgent Mahindra operation.
A mini lower-league battle will also conclude with Maserati MSG, Envision Racing and Cupra Kiro separated by just eight points in the battle for eighth position.
Tight runner-up scrap
While Rowland kicks back and flicks proverbial cards into a top hat from the top table, those behind him are entwined in a reasonably tight fight for the rest of the positions.
Nick Cassidy's recent points haul of 69 from the last four races has elevated him from the depths of 13th to a heady fifth position in the drivers' championship with Wehrlein, Taylor Barnard and da Costa in his sights in second through fourth.
Cassidy, who will bow out of Jaguar this weekend before he joins Stellantis for next season, is 23 points behind Wehrlein, while da Costa and Barnard are 22 and 13 off the outgoing champion.
Behind Cassidy, five drivers are squabbling over the remaining top 10 positions with Jean-Eric Vergne in sixth just 12 points ahead of Jake Dennis in 10th, and Dan Ticktum, Edoardo Mortara and Maximilian Guenther between them.
More Wehrlein and da Costa fireworks?
The degraded relationship between Porsche pair Wehrlein and da Costa feels like it is in the final knockings of its sometimes fruitful, often fitful partnership now.
The fallout from their free practice collision in Berlin two weeks ago was kept internal but it will not have done anything for the permafrost-like aura around them that has festered all season.
Da Costa's future with the team is still not decided and it will be an interesting briefing ahead of the London E-Prix this weekend because if Porsche is to win the teams' and manufacturers' titles it can't afford for personal recriminations to come to the fore.
Drivers' careers on the line
Several drivers are in need of big results this weekend to reaffirm to the paddock that they are worthy of consideration for drives next season.
Some are stalled while the da Costa and Porsche situation is sorted out, but they still have the power to make their cases on track in London.
Among those who could do with big points to make big points are Norman Nato, Jake Hughes, Robin Frijns, Stoffel Vandoorne and Nico Mueller. Each is in the mix for a seat next season but a big, confidence-boosting result would help things along hugely.
McLaren and Maserati farewells
Final races for McLaren and Maserati this weekend will mean a valedictory feel in the air as the two teams share an endgame of sorts, albeit with very different outcomes.
McLaren will close its doors later this month with its entrants' licence returning to Formula E. With it will go three seasons of regular frontrunning but with just one win to its name. An elusive second win would be an amazingly sweet yet slightly sour way to go out.
Sam Bird at present is very likely to be also racing in his final E-Prix after a decade-long career in which he has - more often than not - been one of the grid's top performers.
That Bird has not been consistently at the top for a few seasons now should not sully an otherwise positive career, one which has gained him huge respect from his fellow competitors along the way.
Maserati's involvement in Formula E started off making sense, until it didn't.
It appears set to be replaced by Citroen for next season and, while the business side of things made less and less sense with Maserati's troubled automotive situation, it at least achieved three wins via Guenther and Vandoorne. Additionally, its lovely blue livery (minus the dreadful copper bits) will also be missed.
David Beckmann will also likely not be on the starting grid come Sao Paulo in December, although he would deserve a point or two after a few hard-luck stories along the way during a generally sub-par first full campaign with Kiro.
