Mitch Evans and Jaguar's decade-long Formula E relationship will end with Evans leaving the team in August.

He will move on to race for the new Opel team for the Gen4 era starting later this year. 

The Race understands that Evans' seat at Jaguar is set to be taken by 2022 Formula E champion and current Jaguar test and development driver Stoffel Vandoorne, although an official confirmation of that is not expected to come until the summer. 

Jaguar confirmed on Monday that Evans will leave the team with which he has scored 15 E-Prix wins and  38 podium finishes in his 132 starts. He is presently third in this season's standings after taking a win in Miami and two further podiums in Jeddah and Jarama. 

"To have been with Jaguar TCS Racing right from the beginning and achieved so much success throughout the last 10 years in Formula E has been incredible," said Evans.

"It has been a memorable experience and there have been so many highlights throughout our journey together, but the time is right to embark on a new challenge for next season.

"I am grateful to Jaguar for the opportunity to race for such an iconic brand and will be giving my all to win the drivers' world championship this season, and will continue to work closely with my team-mate and friend Antonio [Felix da Costa] as we battle for the teams' and manufacturers' world titles." 

The Race revealed last month that Evans was set to move on to race for Stellantis-owned Opel, which confirmed its entry at the last race at Jarama.

A deal is believed to have been finalised last month and is expected to be confirmed at the end of the present season. Theo Pourchaire, who has tested the Stellantis test car on several occasions, remains the favourite to fill the other seat at Opel. 

Speaking to The Race about Evans' upcoming departure, Jaguar team principal Ian James said that it was "quite incredible for anybody, let alone a driver, to be with a team for 10 years".

"Mitch was one of the drivers that I'd had sort of in my crosshairs as a potential target for the previous teams I'd worked for,  so I've always held him in incredibly high regard and I think his record very much speaks for itself," James added.

"It's about not only the successes that he's had in terms of his championship positions and his race wins but actually the contribution that he's made to this team over those 10 years and throughout four generations of rules, it has been absolutely phenomenal.

"As with any sort of relationship you're constantly evaluating where the future lies and what opportunities there are going forward and I think that actually part of the catalyst for this is the fact that we're going to a new generation, a new car, we've got four years plus of that generation so it's one of those natural points in time where you can maybe take that evaluation a little bit more seriously."

Evans has not been able to drive the Jaguar test and development car due to his contract coming to an end this summer and the possibility of him driving elsewhere.

Discussions between Evans and Jaguar about the possibility of a new deal appear to have ceased some time ago, and The Race understands that plans for Vandoorne to take over the race seat were always baked into his reserve deal that was completed last summer.

Talking about the specific timings of Evans' exit from the team, James said that "we had some very open discussions about as soon as I came into the team [in September 2025] and I'm actually really glad about how those discussions progressed and although the conclusion that they've come to may surprise a few people, at the same time I think that for Mitch in particular it opens up a new chapter in his career and I think that's always something which is an exciting opportunity."

Evans' time at Jaguar has been tumultuous, occasionally irascible, as well as highly successful.

He has three times entered the last event with a chance of becoming champion – in 2021, 2022 and 2024. He was chosen to drive for Jaguar as it entered Formula E at the end of 2016 when he took part in a shoot-out with Harry Tincknell, Alex Lynn and Adam Carroll. Evans was joined by the last of those drivers for the inaugural campaign in 2016-17. 

But while Carroll, then Nelson Piquet Jr, then James Calado, Alex Lynn, Sam Bird and Nick Cassidy cycled through the team, Evans became synonymous with Jaguar as it built itself up into a championship-winning entry during the Gen2 and Gen3 periods and he was able to sign lucrative new deals.

Evans was a favourite to take the 2021 title on the final day at Berlin, but a failure of the inverter on his car meant he failed to get off the line and was hit by Edoardo Mortara's Venturi Mercedes. 

But his best chance of title glory came at the London ExCeL finale in July 2024 when he and team-mate Cassidy battled it out against Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein.

However a shaky strategic execution of that race by Jaguar, in which Evans had to comply with his own team's attempts at orchestration with title rival and team-mate Cassidy, coupled with Evans missing his attack mode loops late in the race, ensured that the drivers' title went to Wehrlein amid a multitude of recriminations by Evans in particular over how his title chance was handled. Jaguar did though wrap up the teams' and manufacturers' titles on that occasion.

Evans also had to be subservient to the team at the recent Madrid E-Prix when his charging drive from 16th on the grid to a position of challenging his current team-mate da Costa for the victory was halted on the penultimate lap by a team call to hold position.