Mitch Evans took a commanding victory in a rain-affected Miami Formula E race to get his and Jaguar's 2025-26 campaign up and running.
Rain that began around 45 minutes before the start of Formula E's first race at the Miami International Autodrome - on a shorter version of the Formula 1 circuit - had stopped before the start, but race control still took the decision to run the first four laps behind the safety car before cars returned to the grid.
From the standing start that followed Porsche's polesitter Nico Mueller did hold the lead into Turn 1 from the customer Andretti-run Porsche of Felipe Drugovich, though the full-season rookie did grab the lead later on the same lap after opting to take attack mode at the first available opportunity.
The others in the top five - Mueller, Nyck de Vries (Mahindra), Joel Eriksson (Envision-Jaguar) and Pascal Wehrlein (Porsche) - opted to do the same in subsequent laps and soon formed a breakaway group, one that Jaguar duo Antonio Felix da Costa and Evans subsequently joined then infiltrated once they took attack mode for the first time.
Evans had cycled through into the top three by the time he'd used his first two-minute allocation and then passed his team-mate for second around the outside into Turn 1, having got a good run off off the Turn 13 hairpin where a lap earlier da Costa had relinquished the lead to Mueller.
And things only got worse for da Costa from there, as he was slammed into on the approach to the hairpin by Drugovich as the Andretti driver appeared to snatch a brake.
Drugovich broke his front wing in the incident and immediately headed for the pits - he later received a 10-second penalty that dropped him to 18th in the final classification - and while da Costa was able to continue, he fell away from the lead pack and slumped to eighth by the finish via what appeared to be more contact on the penultimate lap from the second Mahindra of Edoardo Mortara.
That clash allowed Mueller and Evans to make a break at the front and Evans made what was ultimately his race-winning move on lap 27 of the extended 41-lap race distance with a well-executed switch back underneath Mueller exiting the hairpin.
Though Mueller got closer again in the final stages this was largely because he took his second attack mode activation a lap before Evans took his, with the Jaguar driver eventually winning by 3.151s to finally get off the mark for the season after retiring from the Sao Paulo season opener and an 11th-place finish in Mexico.
Wehrlein made it two Porsches on the podium with third, having used his second attack mode activation to finally break De Vries's dogged defence. Eriksson was also able to make use of that tactic and claimed a career-best fourth with an impressive drive.
De Vries was lower on energy than those around him in the closing laps but he clung onto fifth ahead of team-mate Mortara, with Sebastien Buemi advancing from last on the grid to seventh, despite not using his full attack mode allocation before the chequered flag, courtesy of a pass on da Costa on the final lap.
There was a second points finish in a row for the only full rookie, Pepe Marti (Cupra Kiro-Porsche), while Andretti scored only a solitary point at its home race through Jake Dennis.
Defending champion Oliver Rowland had a big energy advantage in the first half of the race but could only finish 12th, while points leader Nick Cassidy endured a miserable race for Citroen, finishing a lapped 16th after starting in the top seven.
