A very well attended maiden Madrid E-prix gave Formula E plenty to be happy about, and the drama on the Jarama circuit - much more old school in layout than many of the series regular races - delivered a feisty affair.

The pole winner sinking like a rock, anger over team orders at the front, another nightmare for the team that powered last year's champion and a last corner overtake for the podium were just some of the highlights for the viewers.

Here are our winners and losers from round six of the season.

Winner - Jaguar TCS Racing (1-2)

The Big Cat’s first 1-2 finish since its famous 2024 Monaco clean sweep was a much more hard-earned affair than that dominant day in the Principality.

Antonio Felix da Costa’s second Jaguar win in as many races came thanks to a conclusive strategy that edged him 10 points nearer to his 2025 nemesis Pascal Wehrlein.

A qualifying semi-final defeat by Nyck de Vries came after an awesome final sector from the Mahindra driver. But da Costa and his crew stuck to their pre-race plan, which emphasised a relatively early pit boost stop after keeping a close eye on the state of charge window on da Costa’s car in order for him to duck in to execute the strategy.

Da Costa became the equal second most winning Formula E driver with Sebastien Buemi on 14 wins.

Team boss Ian James told The Race that Jaguar’s race was “interesting, because when you come into it after qualifying and you've got one car towards the front and one car towards the back (Evans started 16th), of course you'd rather both cars out the front, but in a way I quite enjoy playing different strategies for each car".

From Evans, it was nothing less than a sensational display, one where he, his engineer Alan Cocks and the #9 side of the Jaguar garage, were on-point throughout.

But it was also one that was bad tempered in the final laps as a late call for the drivers to hold position clearly irritated Evans in initially a similar manner to his infamous London E-Prix hauntings of the last two seasons.

The Kiwi had struggled in qualifying for any consistent grip in the damp conditions, which was an unpleasant shock after his Miami heroics.

In the race his attack mode plan was initially aborted which “hurt me a little bit” and he then got “pushed off by (Nico) Mueller twice, which I thought was very average driving”.

That cost him a bit of momentum to Ticktum and his team-mate at the front, but he eventually dispatched the former with a sumptuous around the outside of Turn 10 move.

Yet, with his team-mate up ahead, it was that scrapping that potentially cost him the race win because he would likely have caught him slightly earlier before the team call to hold station came at the end of the penultimate lap.

“I get why the call came, but it's just not the first time these things happen,” a clearly riled Evans told The Race.

“I worked my arse off all race to get that energy advantage and then I couldn't use it when it mattered the most to get the victory. I understand [the team] want to protect the 1-2, but in the car it's hard to hear those words.”

That was underlined by his initial damning verdict on the radio, although it was said by his team boss Ian James that he had cooled down a little after the post-race debrief:

Mitch Evans: You guys are lucky I like Antonio.
Alan Cocks: Yeah completely understood mate.
Mitch Evans: You guys don’t talk to me. Well, done Antonio.
Ian James: Mitch from the bottom of my heart thank you...
Mitch Evans: Don’t want to hear it! Don’t want to hear it!
Ian James: We’ll talk when you get back.

As hard as those words were to hear for Evans, the fact is Jaguar took an excellent 1-2 and gained a net 24 points on rivals Porsche in the teams’ standings.

Without the call it could easily have been a much less bountiful haul and much more destructive outcome such was the intensity of the fight, especially with Ticktum in the mix for a home hero style last lap ‘Hail Mary' move.

Winner - Pascal Wehrlein (3rd)

Wehrlein drove a very wily race for Porsche at Jarama to increase his title points lead to 11 over Edoardo Mortara in a weekend in which he fought back from considerable adversity after a mysterious failure of his spec front-powertrain just before his quarter-final qualifying duel against former team-mate da Costa.

A replacement was quickly fitted and Wehrlein started the race from sixth place, when had it not been for the issue, a crack at pole may have been on the cards such was Wehrlein’s confidence in his car.

But that disappointment was quickly forgotten when he instantly made progress through the field by putting sublime moves on Dan Ticktum and then Nyck de Vries, before the latter then tagged the back of the Porsche causing some minor damage.

Undeterred, Wehrlein knuckled down to build a strong race which was rewarded by an opportunist last corner move on Ticktum to sneak a welcome podium and put further air between himself and fifth place finisher Mortara in the title race.

Winner - Cupra Kiro (4th & 9th)

Big race and big pressure for Cupra Kiro at the VW-owned manufacturer's home ground.

For a team that in the past has sometimes cracked under similar pressures, this was a major test. But it pretty much thrived this time.

Dan Ticktum excavated one of his best races in Formula E with an excellent ascent from ninth place after just missing out on getting into the duels by 0.042s.

He vaulted up to fifth on the first lap and was then up to second, forging a strong foundation for a race long challenge for what at several stages looked like a genuine crack at victory.

Ultimately though, despite some excellent attacking and defensive driving, Ticktum got mugged on the final corner by a prowling Wehrlein, while trying to attack Evans himself.

“I think whichever way I went, I was pretty f*****, to be honest,” Ticktum told The Race.

“In hindsight, looking at the replay, maybe it would have been better to follow Mitch [Evans]. But because of how slow da Costa was into the corner, I just feel like I would have got done up the inside by Pascal [anyway].”

Team-mate and local favourite Pepe Marti recovered from a shaky start to the race and went on a bit of a 'glory run' to lead between laps 10 and 13 with an early attack mode. It sent the large local crowd in to raptures, but a curiously slow approach to his pit stop ultimately cost him.

Marti wasn’t as quick as Ticktum at Jarama but was at least able to score points with ninth place, meaning that a fourth points score from the first six races of his Formula E career should be viewed as a very positive start indeed.

Winner - Sebastien Buemi (7th)

Sixth on the road but ultimately seventh in the final standings doesn’t sound like a mighty ‘win’ for Sebastien Buemi, but in the context of his qualifying performance, his race execution it was, in fact, every bit as impressive as most of his his season to date.

The recent upsurge in pace of the Envision Jaguar appeared to tail off in practice and qualifying with Buemi struggling hugely for any adequate grip in either dry or damp conditions. This left him anchored in a disappointing 14th on the grid.

But Buemi and Envision finally found something approaching a sweet spot in the car and moved up the field, accordingly, timing his pit stop and attack mode well he was able to surge through to the leading group.

But a ’place swap’ penalty after a brawny fight with Jake Dennis meant his sixth-place finish became seventh after a long deliberation with stewards after the race. Team boss Sylvain Filippi was particularly unimpressed with that particular verdict.

But his driver, in the context of his tough start to the Jarama week, was overall reasonably positive as he maintained his status as one of only two drivers (Wehrlein being the other) to score points in each of the six races held so far.

“I’m quite happy with that (result), even if I have the feeling that we could have achieved even more,” Buemi said after the race.

“Now let us try to understand why it was a bit more difficult this weekend and move on to Berlin, which is a track I used to like quite a bit.

"Difficult conditions, obviously, but I survived.”

Winner - Madrid E-Prix

Exiting the circuit late on Saturday evening, a jubilantly weary Alberto Longo, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Formula E, puffed on a well-earned cigar. He was rightly savouring that a first ever Madrid E-Prix had been pulled off so successfully.

A bumper crowd, a superb atmosphere, a brief local hero cameo from Pepe Marti and a stupendous race were several very ripe cherries on the cake of Formula E’s newest race and one in which is special to Formula E Operations strong Spanish heritage.

Jarama is an old school track but you wouldn’t have known it last weekend as the branding and marketing departments pulled off some serious coups. As a result, It should now be viewed as a race now which has just as much potential to grow into a regular big crowd pleaser event like Mexico City and Monaco E-Prixs.

Yes, Cupra's title partnership and investment helped, and the importance of the Spanish market to Citroen, Nissan and Porsche in particular attracted extra corporates and dealership guests. But that’s exactly what a manufacturer-led world championship should be doing consistently.

But it was really the challenge of the track itself that stood out with Cupra Kiro’s Dan Ticktum waxing lyrical to The Race on what he considered to be a “fantastic circuit and great event”.

“This reminds me of Mexico, really, a very, very, very good vibe, although the track's a lot better than Mexico and is a lot of fun," he said. "There was enough overtaking here I think.”

With the King of Spain, Felipe VI, allied to sporting royalty such as Roberto Carlos, Thibault Courtois and Carlos Sainz Sr in attendance, it had a genuine feeling of a big event as the spectator banks filled quickly on race morning and were added to and sustained throughout the day

The great irony of it all was that such an extravaganza was set amid one of Madrid’s coolest springs in decades and the knowledge that in a few months’ time F1 would be racing on the city streets of the Spanish capital.

That apart, the 2026 Madrid E-Prix was a very memorable event, and one in which all who made it work so well, would be quite justified in also having a celebratory toot on Longo’s post-race cigar.

Loser - Nick Cassidy (17th)

For a third successive event the Stellantis quartet of cars flattered to deceive, and there was perhaps no starker example than Nick Cassidy in the #37 Citroen-run car.

A sensational pole position from the Kiwi in treacherously damp conditions - with a highlight being the captivating qualifying final against Nyck de Vries – was Cassidy at his absolute finest.

The Kiwi’s deft sector two and sector three performance was a masterclass in feel and poise as he clawed back an initial 0.258s deficit. It must surely rank closely to his jaw-dropping London 2024 final round qualifying heroics where he set pole despite having missed the entire preceding free practice session.

While that ticked off another milestone for Cassidy, to go alongside his first Citroen win in Mexico at the start of the year, those three points for pole later felt a bit hollow in the context of a hugely disappointing race.

Leading for the first seven laps, he initially seemed reasonably happy at the front, but all was far from well in the bigger picture of the race and the Citroen ace felt that getting stuck behind attack-mode boosted Pepe Marti’s Cupra Kiro became a major factor in how he slipped out of contention.

“If you see my energy with the others I was over-consuming when I was following cars but I couldn't really keep up and I didn't have the efficiency when I was in the tow, but when I was actually leading the race I was kind of OK,” he told The Race.

“Strategy-wise, I think the team did a good job, all the calls were right, within our control, but the two Kiros were so slow in the pit window.”

Cassidy clearly felt that Marti was a clear cork in a bottle, and the Spanish rookie's in-lap to his pit boost lap massively irritated Cassidy.

“I don't know if they knew it was a pit window race,” he said deadpan.

“You can really see what manufacturer drivers and paid professionals are and what guys are just pure amateurs.

“And, unfortunately, we got behind the amateurs today. Jake Dennis just messaged me [and wrote] ‘I've never seen someone brake so early for a pit lane entry’ and I think we lost maybe two or two and a half seconds on the pit lane entry itself.”

Doomed words for a doomed scenario, which got Cassidy out of the track position window for the second half of the race and consigned him to a dejected 17th position finish - despite having got back up to fifth before consuming too much energy and falling back.

Loser - Taylor Barnard (19th)

Generally, Taylor Barnard has settled into the DS Penske squad very well in only his second Formula E season. But after a difficult weekend in Jeddah last month, he had his toughest E-Prix this season at Jarama.

A strong FP2 session in the wet was encouraging but then some changes to his car for the qualifying period backfired and he was rooted to a 15th-place start.

The race was disastrous as Barnard made a wildly optimistic move on Stellantis stablemate Jean-Eric Vergne’s Citroen. The messy outcome resulted in a 10-second time penalty for Barnard, meaning that bar a race neutralisation his afternoon was completely done results wise.

While Barnard owned responsibility for that contretemps, a second incident with Nico Mueller’s Porsche added an extra five-seconds to his race time, yet Barnard believed this penalty was “on the limit, because of course when I'm sideways, it was a bit difficult”.

Overall, he cut a very frustrated individual afterwards, adding to The Race that he “never gets red mist in the car, but it led me to the point where, at what point do I just let everyone push me around?".

He added: “I'm not a driver who is just going to sit and take it, I need to send a message and of course when I do the dive bomb, I don't want to crash and take people out, but look, I'm not going to be pushed around.

"Unfortunately, the outcome was not as I wanted, but I think the message was heard.”

Barnard’s team-mate Maximilian Guenther also had a race to forget, which was especially galling after a very strong qualifying performance delivered a strong seventh.

But Guenther, who was in the earlier lap 11 Pit Boost window group, then faded badly on pace and efficiency after gambling on an early attack mode deployment, and came in a battling but disconsolate 13th.

That disappointment and fifth consecutive non-score for Guenther meant that DS Penske slipped to ninth in the teams’ standings, its lowest position in the entire history of the Gen3 era.

On a weekend when DS formally announced its exit from Formula E, after an 11 year programme, it felt like it had reached a new nadir – results wise at least – from which it can only ascend in the coming races.

Loser - Nissan (11th & 16th)

There is simply no escaping the fact that the team that took Oliver Rowland to last year’s title looks like a much blunter force this season.

Its third complete non-score from the first six races means that it is hugely underperforming down in a languid sixth position in the teams’ standings, already a huge 82 points adrift of leaders Porsche.

A suspected front powertrain issue ruined any decent prospect of Oliver Rowland capitalising on his eighth place grid start and making up for spinning in his quarter-final duel against Nyck de Vries.

Rowland’s race was immediately ruined by an overpower penalty off the start line, which is suspected to have been due to a front powertrain abnormality.

Team-mate Norman Nato again showed some exceptional pace in practice and qualifying but came away with nothing to show for his efforts.

A Turn 7 spin in his semi-final qualifying bout with Cassidy and then running wide at Turn 1 on cold tyres were errors Nato could have well done without. But it was more his complete drop off of pace in the second half of the race that was a real concern for team boss Tommaso Volpe.

“It is concerning and we need to understand what happened to Norman, because he looked very similar to Jeddah, that after the attack mode, after the pit stop, his pace dropped,” Volpe told The Race.

“We need to understand if there is an issue with the FPK or something like that.”

The non-score means Nato has scored just three points from the last 12 races, a fact that for whatever the reasons behind such a run, puts an enormous amount of pressure on him and his side of the garage as Formula E enters a six week break to Berlin in May.

Loser - Nyck de Vries (18th)

Fast but wild.

It was almost a neat encapsulation of 2021 champion Nyck de Vries’ season so far as the Mahindra driver bookended an otherwise brilliantly driven practice and qualifying with two shunts in the race.

The first was reasonably unimportant at the start of FP1 on Friday afternoon. But the second when he swiped the back of Pascal Wehrlein’s Porsche was more consequential for a race in which he should by rights have been at least challenging for a podium and was at the time.

Instead, de Vries registered his fifth non-score from six races, and he knew he had to own his latest error, although he also felt there were mitigating circumstances that blindsided him somewhat.

“My fault,” de Vries told The Race of his Wehrlein contact.

“If you hit someone in the back, you're at fault, so, I was 100% at fault. I was dealing with a lot of other issues that I was trying to sort out. I was fully distracted by them, but that doesn't take away that it's my fault.”

Compromised on handling with the detachment of his front wing, de Vries took a five-second penalty in addition to a spare nose assembly.

But any hope of a result was annulled when he got a second sanction for crossing the second line of the pit-lane positioning area and he was classified a distant 18th.