Monaco produced two first time 2026 winners and changes at the top of both major title races over a weekend where the destruction levels on-track were a contrast to the glamour off it.

Here's our winners and losers list to shine a light on the best stories from the front and the rear of the grid, as there were some particularly trying weekends for some of Formula E's biggest names, too.

Loser: Porsche (11th, 18th / 6th, 12th)

Eight races in Monaco for the Porsche factory FE team now and not one of its Nomex boots has strayed on to the podium.

The curse deepened last weekend as only Nico Mueller’s sixth place offered a kind of balm to soothe some very sore heads at the German giant.

A great deal of that pain was self-inflicted as Mueller went from hero to villain in the space of a fortnight after he unfathomably drop-kicked his own team-mate Pascal Wehrlein at La Rascasse while the pair were in a decent position to build a strong race one.

The resulting puncture for Wehrlein, and Mueller’s inevitable penalty meant Porsche lost the teams' and drivers' title lead in one grim and painful race.

“He [Mueller] apologised immediately and clearly we reviewed the situation but both cars out of the points, not what we targeted, clearly.” Porsche’s director for the Formula E programme, Florian Modlinger, told The Race.

Sunday wasn't the turnaround they had hoped for. With a paucity of grip for Wehrlein, he faded to not very much at all in a race he finished a totally anaemic 11th place behind even the two Lolas.

Mueller meanwhile took an ultra-early attack mode and cycled through to the lead but then got swallowed and shuffled back by being out-muscled by Jean-Eric Vergne’s Citroen. The loss of momentum was such that he ran 15th and although he then mounted a spirited recovery to get sixth place, ultimately as an aggregate of the weekend that will be slight consolation for driver and team.

Monaco was Wehrlein’s first ever double-header zero points score in a Porsche. That will hurt, just as much as Monaco always seems to hurt Porsche.

Winner: Jaguar (2nd, DNF / 4th, 3rd)

“When I crossed the line, I wasn't sure if I was happy or angry.”

That was Antonio Felix da Costa after what in modern parlance would be described as a bit of a ‘journey’ in Monaco last weekend. Even by Formula E standards this was an odyssey that peaked, dropped and then peaked again to the point where even he struggled to adequately take it all in and articulate it.

“I thought, here we go again!” as he watched the majority of the field drive past his Jaguar, which faced the wrong way at the chicane on lap one of Sunday’s race thanks to a Edoardo Mortara tap.

After a stellar race two qualifying, that was only spoiled by having overly hot rubber in his final against Saturday nemesis Dan Ticktum, the Jaguar driver was in an ideal position as he tailed the Cupra Kiro for the first lap and a half.

He thought it was “over” after the spin but took his first tranche of attack mode and rose spectacularly from 17th on lap 15 of 28 to the lead four laps later in a barely credible ascent that had some confused simply by how he’d got there.

Da Costa’s side of the garage adapted his strategy excellently so that the Plan B crystallised. Third was a very decent compensatory result especially for the team that worked so hard to rebuild his car after the contentious incident with Ticktum on Saturday.

It kept da Costa at least in some touch with the title conversation, although from 19 points behind the leader heading into Berlin earlier this month, da Costa now has a 48-point deficit to new points leader - and his own team-mate - Mitch Evans.

But it was Evans who was the big winner from Monaco. He took a strong and strategically adept second on Saturday and a fourth a day later, after vastly different races. But it was finally appearing to lick his previous trend of erratic one lap pace that will ultimately please both himself and the team.

Yet, Evans was far from impressed with some aspects of his strategy on Sunday, after an early first attack mode of six minutes gained him track position from seventh on the grid. But it also left him feeling exposed in the second half of the race.

Ultimately his 19-point advantage now in the title race gives him an excellent basis to go for that long awaited title in his final Jaguar season, and he may well look back at the bountiful points hauls in the two double headers in May in Berlin and Monaco as real start of some pin-pulling momentum come the London finales in August.

“It's the consistency that we're building now,” Jaguar’s team principal, Ian James told The Race.

“After, as we've spoken before, a pretty miserable start to the season with the first couple of races, we needed not only to get ourselves back in contention but to do it in a consistent manner, and I think Mitch has done that, done that incredibly well.”

Loser: Citroen (9th, 18th / 16th, 18th)

Two points and a demotion from fifth to seventh place in the teams’ standings, and all at the team’s home race, cannot be shined up into anything other than a complete disaster.

Nick Cassidy was at a complete loss to pinpoint precisely why he could not show any pace at all on a track he has so excelled at before.

Two weeks on from an excellent pole position and a podium at Berlin, the Kiwi was left scrabbling around the lower reaches of the field and only got a hard-fought two points for ninth when penalties were applied to Mueller and Maximilian Guenther on Saturday.

After attempting to change prospects overnight on Saturday via “reasoning and data” Cassidy was hopeful for Sunday but knew quickly in free practice on Sunday morning that “we had something weird going on”.

“If I'm a couple of tenths off or something, fair play," said Cassidy. "But I was, at times, like a second or eight tenths.”

Cassidy’s miserable weekend ended with a salt in wound shove by a fitful Pepe Marti which resulted in both entangled at La Rascasse and the crocked Citroen toured in a distant 18th and the final classified finisher.

Jean-Eric Vergne at least got it together on Sunday and started fourth, just missing out on the final to former team-mate da Costa by a slender 0.015s. He was looking good in the race, running second at one stage, until he was spun out by Taylor Barnard. More on that later...

Winner: Oliver Rowland (15th / 1st)

“Oliver has this umbrella view on the race and he has kind of an amazing reading of the races,” Nissan’s Tommaso Volpe told The Race as he watched his star driver plummet into the famous Monaco pool as part of Formula E’s on-brand dive-bombing tradition on Sunday evening.

A remarkable example of Oliver Rowland’s scanner-like working of races is easy to come across according to Volpe because “at one point he asked ‘what is Nyck de Vries doing?'".

That seems extraordinary as de Vries was in 17th position, although with one of the quickest cars beneath him.

“Oliver just wanted to know what the Mahindra was doing down there,” expressed an astonished Volpe.

“That takes a lot of brain capacity, shows you how wide he covers the races. I think it is amazing.”

It certainly is. The reward, exactly 12 months on from his last victory (at the second Tokyo E-Prix last year), witnessed Rowland picking everyone’s pocket with an exquisitely built race that had roots in the early decision to go for that two and six minute attack mode strategy.

With Mortara forced into a ‘hail mary’ effort after his 10-second penalty for hitting da Costa was confirmed, and Mueller in a similar off-strategy pace busting push, Roland didn’t panic and stayed calm.

“I knew it [the pace] wasn't sustainable,” Rowland explained to The Race.

“The energy took longer to build than the short attack mode, the first one. I still used it as a 'save' in attack mode, because I still didn't have the energy.

"So, I said ‘I'm going to go do two minutes and at least get one activation out of the way’, so just keep building, not do too much attacking, and then leave it all for the big attack later.”

He’d almost gone the other way, six and two minutes. In fact, his team was expecting him to do so, but at the last moment the Rowland multiple mental-move machine whirred into life below that familiar yellow, red and blue helmet, although there was a provision for him to change the 350kW cocktail to suit his taste, according to Volpe.

“To be honest, it was an option that we discussed before,” he said.

“So, it's not that he changed our strategy completely. We discussed that we could start with a plan, but accordingly with how he was feeling and how the race was going, it could have changed.”

It was the right decision because Rowland was able to start conducting the pace more and also use the ‘ghost car’ of Mortara’s Mahindra (at the sharp end but due that 10-second penalty) to his advantage as a shield after he completed that crucial final six minutes of all-wheel drive power.

Had it not been for Norman Nato getting dumped into the wall by an erratic Taylor Barnard on lap five, Nissan may have had a double podium as Nato initially rode shotgun with his team-mate and was looking at a similar strategy.

Rowland’s win made up for a lousy Saturday twhere Nato come in a delayed 14th after serving a penalty for a team-error inspired tyre pressure infraction, and Rowland just behind him in 15th after getting a puncture.

But the Sunday masterclass has ensured that Rowland is putting himself into an ominous position for what could be an unforgettable back-to-back title charge.

Winner: Mahindra (1st, 17th / 8th, 5th)

It was 1758 days since Alex Lynn took his only Formula E win at the first ever London ExCeL Formula E race. That was Mahindra's last win before Saturday in Monaco. De Vries ended his own four-year famine with that conclusive win too.

For Mahindra this day had been a long time coming. Its Gen3 project started wretchedly in 2023 and hit a very firm rock-bottom at that year’s Cape Town E-Prix when it didn’t even start the race due to a suspension issue.

A rebuilding took place through that season and the subsequent two, to the point where this season many feel it has the best handling all-round package. But delivering on that promise has not come easily and despite two podiums and two poles for Mortara, the win was still elusive until de Vries took victory in his own back yard.

“I think the victory was probably what was missing, because the impact is clearly there for the people in India and in [UK base] Brackley,” Mahindra team principal Frederic Bertrand told The Race.

“Up to now we had good results with podiums showing the way for us, but we were missing that win, so it's good that it happened, it took a little bit of time, but it's very, very good."

De Vries also really needed the win after a fractious season where he has thrown away big points, notably at Sao Paulo and Jarama.

The 2021 champion had a weekend of two halves though, with a tricky qualifying in which he chased grip in qualifying to no avail. That left him 16th on the grid but a clever drive through to eighth was at least some compensation, although his swipe on da Costa’s Jaguar early doors was deeply unpopular with the Portuguese.

Mortara’s Saturday was largely ruined by a water pump failure just as he was about to go out for qualifying. That rooted him to a back row start and his race fell apart when he had to serve a drive-through penalty for a minimum tyre pressure violation.

A day later and Mortara was back in more familiar territory with a fine qualifying only ended by Ticktum’s lap of the season in the semi-final duel. He should have fought for a Mahindra clean sweep in the race but his rash clip of da Costa spoiled all that.

His subsequent drive in a void of his own, although he clearly tried to get those around him to overspend on energy. He was rightly rewarded with a fifth place points score, despite finishing the race second on the road to Rowland.

All in all, it was a decent damage limitation drive from Mortara, who maintains touch with new points leader Evans, and is still very much in the title reckoning despite having yet to take a victory this season.

Loser: Cupra Kiro (3rd, 12th / DNF, 14th)

Paranormal dexterity, smooth as silk execution of multiple qualifying laps that got him a brace of superb poles, but familiar radio rants, chucking things around his driver room on Saturday and not getting what he probably deserved results wise was a very Dan Ticktum 2026 script to follow last weekend.

His qualifying pace and execution was clearly brilliant on both days but the completion of his races and only the six points gained from the two pole positions was a poor haul considering the pace he and the Cupra Kiro team had. In some ways it wasn’t too far off his 2025 audit of amazing pace but limited reward across the Monaco weekend.

“The laps were pretty special all through qualifying, to be honest,” a rightly gratified Ticktum told The Race on Sunday evening, after actually gracing the media with his presence, a refreshing change to the hair-trigger combination of disappointment and petulance that saw him skulk away from the track 24 hours before.

“I'm never normally proud of myself, but I have to say, I think that's some of the best driving I’ve done since Tokyo last year, before I put it in the wall. If you slow down the final lap and go to Turn 10, where the barrier sticks out, I cannot believe I didn't hit it.”

On one of Formula E’s smoothest track surfaces, Ticktum’s deft touch and otherworldly feel for a car on the limit was an unbeatable combination and one that showed not only one of motorsport’s most naturally talented performer's skills at work but also just how he can access pace via simple vehicle dynamics and adhesion understanding that others simply cannot.

But in the races overheating tyres, some strategic confusion on both days and incidents (da Costa on Saturday and a first course yellow penalty and Jake Dennis contretemps on Sunday) spoiled any notion of Ticktum beginning to salvage a pace rich, but results poor season so far.

Ticktum’s penalty for the da Costa incident on Saturday benefitted team-mate Pepe Marti as he took a surprise but well deserved podium after a race that team principal Russell O’Hagan described as representing “a very special moment, and although inheriting a podium because of a penalty is never the ideal way to experience it, the reality is that he absolutely earned his place in the top three".

He added: “Fighting from 15th to the podium in Monaco takes composure, intelligence, and confidence and since joining the team, he’s shown all three in abundance. It always felt like a matter of not if, but when, he would finish on the podium.”

That podium canme from 15th on the grid and was a “very special moment” which took "composure, intelligence, and confidence" reckoned O'Hagan.

Winner: Felipe Drugovich (4th / 2nd)

Drugovich showed a flash of what he could achieve in Formula E in Miami in January but since then his form has been noticeably spiky at best. But it properly picked up in Berlin with two solid points scores and in Monaco, another track he knows well, he finally delivered what Andretti invested in when they signed him to a multiple-season deal last summer.

Relatively clean runs to fourth and a second place was justification of the faith shown by each the team and driver because there has been an almost palpable feeling from each that it would come together.

“He's just sort of settled down into the team now,” said team boss Roger Griffiths.

“He's understanding where to reach for support within the team. It's not like we’re trying to hide it, but he's building relationships, and he's getting more confident and more comfortable with those that are around him.

“Obviously, every time he drives the car, he learns something new about it. You hear it in his feedback. He's becoming more confident with the feedback that he’s given us.”

Drugovich is still developing as a Formula E driver. That’s not to say he underestimated the very different driver skill armoury needed compared to the junior single-seater series, just that it really tests the strength of character of a driver, and Drugovich is becoming more and more aware of this.

“I can be a hard-headed guy, you know, like difficult to change mentality sometimes,” he told The Race.

“I really had to do this championship, it's so different, and I think things are starting to come together.”

Loser: Taylor Barnard (7th / 15th)

As ever Barnard was very quick indeed, especially on Sunday when he lined up sixth and initially shaped up nicely for a potential crack at a first DS Penske podium.

But a worrying trend is emerging with one of Formula E’s homegrown talents. His overly aggressive moves at times look desperate and while his first of two penalties for swiping Nato might have been debatable, his wipe out of Stellantis cousin Vergne at the Nouvelle Chicane definitely wasn’t.

Barnard did apologise for that one but questioned the Nato pinch at Anthony Nogues corner, telling The Race that he felt it was “very harsh” as he was “completely alongside, but the regulations say front wheel to wing mirror.

“He also didn't leave me enough space, so the initial contact was actually for me to have enough space to make the corner, so I think that one was unjustified," he added.

Then there was also a bizarre divebomb on Evans, at Portier, that simply underlined his race as a kind of self-created war zone in which not only he but also two other competitors saw their races ruined.

Barnard will serve a 10-place grid penalty at Sanya next month for his Vergne shove but the only real reimbursement across the Monaco weekend was a fighting seventh on Saturday. But all-in-all both he and the team expect much more.