Formula E's season came to a close in London with the drivers' title already wrapped up.
But the teams' and manufacturers' championships were still on the line and, with the old adage 'you're only as good as your last race' ringing particularly true with the off-season looming, there were plenty of drivers and teams taking big risks to impress.
Some managed to pull that off but others fell short, giving us our winners and losers from last weekend's 2024-25 finale at the ExCeL.
Winner: Jaguar

Jaguar has rebounded spectacularly after a bruising first half of the season where it initially languished near the foot of the points table amid poor reliability, accidents and mistakes that tested its mettle to the core. The response has been five victories in six races, arguably Formula E's greatest-ever run of form.
Leaving Tokyo in late May, Jaguar was eighth of the 11 teams. Publicly there was a stiff upper lip but privately there must have been genuine concern that its season might delaminate before its own eyes.
Jaguar dug in tenaciously and clawed its way back. Not only into respectability, but also beyond all its rivals bar Oliver Rowland (drivers' championship) and Porsche (teams' and manufacturers' championship). It was a combined performance that deserves a huge amount of respect for its execution, although had it not been for a combination of poor reliability and incidents for Mitch Evans, Jaguar could have sensationally snatched the teams' title away from Porsche.
"We dug really deep. It was very, very difficult early on in the year," departing team principal James Barclay told The Race.
"We knew we had all the ingredients, but we had to bring them together. We looked at everything we could be better at, but we also had some really bad luck early on in the year.
"We said we are not a team that should be ninth or 10th in this championship. We know that.
"It has been just a phenomenal run of results, and I can't think of any other team in modern Formula E history that has been this competitive, who has been able to put together a string of races like that."
Loser: Mitch Evans

Harsh? Possibly. Fair? For Evans at the London E-Prix, definitely, although generally he was super-strong on pure performance only.
Again, Evans appeared to be burdened with the difficult calls, some wrong-footedness on his side of the garage, and misfortune. In a season of hard-luck stories, Evans was put to bed with a night-time nightmare of a narrative, certainly on Saturday.
"You lost me the f***ing race", he said on the radio, criticising his attack mode timing after many others had pulled the trigger earlier.
A day later there seemed to be more indecision, albeit in addition to some mitigating factors.
After gaining a penalty for exceeding the full course yellow speed limit, surely the sensible thing from Jaguar's side would have been for Evans to be told immediately about the sanction and leapfrog team-mate Nick Cassidy - who could then hold up an aggressive Nyck de Vries, allowing Evans to pull a gap - then orchestrate a comfortable 1-2, safe in the knowledge that a compromised Pascal Wehrlein was well short of troubling the runners-up slot?
Well, it was clearly not that simple. It rarely is in Formula E.
"As soon as we had the five-second penalty, we honestly thought there might be an issue with the full course yellow and whether it was triggered on and off and that potentially causes the system to basically disengage," said Barclay.
That meant a period of both consulting with the FIA and also looking into the protocols of their triggering system for FCY speed compliance.
While that was being completed there was also a separate channel of discussion whereby "we should let Mitch get to the lead and then try and build the five-second buffer", according to Barclay.
But with Cassidy up almost 3% on energy to Evans by this time, the risk of pulling Cassidy back into the pack with a feisty De Vries lurking was deemed too great.
"That's what it came down to and personally I really feel for Mitch, because we would have wanted to really help him there," confessed Barclay.
"But if we got that wrong and we dropped Nick back and he'd been lunged at by De Vries, you can imagine the criticisms of the team at that point. So, it was a really very difficult decision."
Did Evans have cause to be grumpy last weekend? Absolutely he did, on Saturday. Did it warrant expletive laden venom? Yes, but preferably behind closed doors and not on the publicly available radio channel.
Irrespective of that, Evans lost out, and although the multi-layer context has to be taken into account it still meant that the deficit to a team-mate who is leaving for pastures new ended up at 79 points.
That will sting a fair bit for the ferociously competitive Jaguar ever-present.
Winner: Nick Cassidy

Cassidy's imperious second half of the season form produced a barely believable ascent from 13th position after the Tokyo double-header to second on 153 points just nine weeks later.
Four wins from the last six races and a combined 120 points in that time was a staggering return for the outgoing Jaguar driver. For context, that is three more points than Rowland, Wehrlein and Taylor Barnard - who joined Cassidy in the top four in the standings - managed in the same period combined.
In London, Cassidy and Jaguar were brilliant, ensuring that they were elevated from fourth to second in the teams' standings and from third to second in the manufacturers' rankings.
Cassidy said different geometries and approach to the set-up, which is totally different to what's been used in London before and been successful in the past, was a crucial element in his double success.
"We were kind of a bit scared, a bit apprehensive coming here, but luckily the work that we've been doing the last few events paid off too and we still naturally had a fast car here, which was quite nice."
The only blot? Jaguar will not have Cassidy in one of its cars next season, as he's heading for a Stellantis seat.
Loser: DS Penske

Once a strong third in the teams' standings and with two victories via Maximilian Guenther's Jeddah and Shanghai peaks, DS Penske looked like a shoo-in for that position heading to Jakarta just a month ago.
That all disappeared as a consequence of its own tardiness in reliability and Jaguar's amazing resurgence. From third to fifth it slipped, and in London only a classy fifth place for Jean-Eric Vergne offered anything resembling joy.
That drive, from 15th on the grid in race one, was a kind of elegant shimmy through the field.
While cars shed bits and pieces and featured scrape upon scrape, Vergne's DS Penske was the only car in the field that looked as pristine as it did before it left the grid.
But the team has to be considered a loser again because it was unable to take the fight to those that it has a right to be fighting against. Guenther has been the victim of several bouts of poor reliability this season but on Saturday he was the victim of an opening-lap collision with Mahindra's Edoardo Mortara.
Guenther was then compromised twice while in attack mode on Sunday, the first under FCY and the second via the safety car triggered by a Rowland-Nico Mueller shunt.
Winner: Porsche

The 28 points secured in London were more than enough for Porsche to seal its first teams' title, something that has been a prime focus ever since it gave notice of its intention to enter Formula E in July 2017 (for the 2019-20 season).
Eight years on, that mission was accomplished. And although it hardly achieved it with a flourish, Porsche fully deserved the accolades, the trophies and the respect of its competitors for a strong campaign.
It only notched up a non-score on one occasion, in Shanghai's first encounter in late May. That stacked up very favourably against its main rival Nissan, which failed to trouble the scorers on four occasions - including the London season finale last weekend.
Despite a fractured dynamic among its two drivers, Wehrlein and Antonio Felix da Costa, Porsche was the best team combined, although its performances in the final half of the season were very patchy.
Wehrlein's fighting third place on Saturday was a crucial result, his sixth podium of the campaign essentially putting Nissan on the back foot. It also meant an unlikely smash and grab from a resurgent Jaguar was out of reach.
The start of Wehrlein's (unsuccessful) title defence in Sao Paulo ended with him viewing the world inverted, after an accidental collision with Cassidy's Jaguar, but Porsche was essentially in control of the teams' title race since it took over the lead after leaving Shanghai in early June.
"If you start with such a crash in Sao Paulo, then Pascal reshuffled and came back even stronger," Porsche Formula E boss Florian Modlinger told The Race as he cradled the manufacturers' trophy and a bottle of champagne.
"But both drivers were strong in qualifying, they were both within the top three in qualifying [on average] but again we had issues in the races, which we cannot influence, but also we had some issues which we can influence.
"These weaknesses we need to tackle and to look for the potential we have there and to improve. Yet, I'm really looking forward to next season already because the team we have, the package we have, is very competitive."
Loser: Nissan

Nissan stumbled over the season's finishing line, having taken the main headlines in Berlin a fortnight ago with Rowland's well-deserved title triumph.
All the legwork was done in the first half of the season, which was just as well because the second half has been close to disastrous from a points perspective.
Rowland's excellent Tokyo E-Prix victory aside, Nissan took just 35 points from the final seven races. That is 14 less than eighth-placed Envision Racing, and a gargantuan 140 adrift of the freakishly prolific Jaguar in the same timeframe.
Any notion of challenging Porsche for top team status was just a distant memory on Sunday evening as team principal Tommaso Volpe surveyed a curious, bitter-sweet scene as Rowland picked up his title trophy.
"We lacked traction the whole time here," he told The Race.
"I think our car has something in the control system that is not right for this surface. We missed traction and pace, especially on the 350kW lap. So qualifying was always not good, and on this track qualifying is so important.
"We had to take risks because of the bad results in qualifying, and when you take risks, you have accidents."
That was a bit of an understatement as Rowland, who was 11th in race one, clumsily shunted with Mueller on Sunday, which will rightly mean his title defence begins in Sao Paulo with a grid penalty.
Team-mate Norman Nato had an equally difficult time and was involved in a skirmish with Dan Ticktum that cost him several positions to come away from London with the only two points that Nissan could muster - from a ninth in race one - during a very forgettable crowning weekend.
Winner: Nyck de Vries

Prior to London, De Vries had scored just four points in the second half of the 2025-26 season - although he missed two of the eight races, in Berlin, due to an Interlagos World Endurance Championship clash.
But an impressive 44-point total haul (36 for De Vries and eight for Mortara) in London was Mahindra's best combined score since the Berlin E-Prix weekend in June 2017.
That was just desserts for a much improved campaign where it claimed fourth place in the standings ahead of a sloppy and unreliable DS Penske, an erratic McLaren, and a lacklustre (although occasionally unlucky) Andretti.
De Vries has generally always been quick at the ExCeL, having scored two seconds, a third and fourth in his previous races.
Last weekend, several on-point qualifying laps and strong race calculations with his attack mode meant he took probably the maximum results he could achieve considering that Cassidy was in such devastating form over both days.
Sunday's race was marginally the better of the two performances as De Vries mixed strong race reading with his typically forceful style in both defence and attack.
It almost cost him as a very marginal defence of second position against Rowland made the latter fume as he slid wildly across De Vries' bows and into the wall, his front-wing cascading carbon fibre as he did so.
De Vries acknowledged to The Race that double-winner Cassidy was in a "different league" and that the double podium and fourth in the teams' championship "is something we didn't dare to wish for going into this weekend".
Loser: CUPRA Kiro

After a succession of strong results, peaking with Ticktum's Jakarta win, CUPRA Kiro had a sobering weekend in London.
Ticktum was, as ever, quick on both days but his races both ended in damaged cars after incidents.
He held his hands up fully after collecting Mitch Evans on Saturday and then stuffing his car into the wall terminally. Then on Sunday, a spirited fightback after suffering a puncture preceded contact with Nato and a second penalty of the race, after being pinged for not keeping close enough to the traffic snake under safety car.
The one redeeming feature for CUPRA Kiro was David Beckmann taking his only point of the season for 10th place, ironically captured after team-mate Ticktum's penalty for his contentious shunt with Nato was applied.
It was all quite scrappy for a team that just fell shy of its 100-point target this season.
On balance, a victory, a pole position and one other podium has to be seen as mostly positive considering the state the team was in this time last year.
Winner: Sebastien Buemi

Buemi has had a strong season masked by ill-fortune on occasion but there is little doubting that he deserved to be higher in the final points table than eventual 12th.
London was a microcosm of his season as a whole. A penalty-affected run on Saturday, after failing to keep within 10-car lengths of the field under the safety car, spoiled any prospect of points. But Sunday was an altogether different story.
From a lowly 19th on the grid, that included a five-place grid drop for tipping Andretti's Mueller in to the barriers at Turn 17 on Saturday, Buemi went on a spirited mission, scything his way through the field to complete one of his most memorable E-Prix performances.
Yes, there were an abnormal amount of retirements, and yes, Buemi did get the rub of the green. But he was able to navigate the mayhem and pick off several rivals to take a third podium of the season.
"We took attack mode at the right time, so yes, it's been a great race and I'm happy with that, but you need some luck as well and I think I'm lucky to be able to use my attack modes," he told The Race.
"I took the most out of the car, the strategy was good, we didn't make mistakes, I positioned myself well at the right place, so the team gave me a good strategy and I'm very thankful for that."
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