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REPORT: Mitch Evans wins enthralling Hankook Berlin E-Prix Round 8

REPORT 03 May 2026 3 Mins

Jaguar TCS Racing's Mitch Evans timed his push to perfection to take victory at Tempelhof ahead of reigning champion Oliver Rowland (Nissan) and Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein.

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The New Zealander started 17th and clambered to the top six by the end of the first round of ATTACK MODE activations with energy in-hand on those around him.

His initial six-minute 50kW, all-wheel drive ATTACK saw him hit the front on Lap 27 and take control from there, building a gap of two seconds to those behind.

RESULTS: The 2026 Hankook Berlin E-Prix Round 8

He swatted the advances of two World Champions in Rowland and Wehrlein away through the second round of ATTACK MODE as the race reached its climax to seal the deal and his 16th race win in Formula E - more than any other driver in the series' history.

Rowland rounded second - a double podium in Berlin after yesterday's third-placed finish for the reigning champion. He now has more silverware than any other driver so far this season. Wehrlein failed to score yesterday after a puncture prematurely ended his chances, but third today sees him regain his standings lead on home soil.

That rounded out a strong weekend for Porsche and the 'Pink Pig' liveried cars, after Nico Mueller's Round 7 win, ensuring the Stuttgart firm continue to head the way in the Teams' and Manufacturers' tables leaving home soil.

We travel to Monaco in two weeks' time for Rounds 9 and 10 of the campaign.

As it happened...

Wehrlein and Barnard steered the pack away through Turn 1 with the pair swapping spots half way around the lap in what was set to be a properly tactical encounter with strategy to the fore.

With 20 cars scrapping for the same square of Tempelhof's concrete apron, and track position, contact looked inevitable and it did come at the Hairpin with Buemi squeezing the Mahindras into Cassidy's Citroen - leaving de Vries out and Cassidy down the order.

Lap 7 and Envision pair Eriksson and Buemi led the way, with Mortara, Vergne, Drugovich, Barnard, Wehrlein, Mueller, da Costa and Guenther the top 10. Cassidy then found himself caught in contact again - clipping Buemi's Envision, leacing Cassidy to take a pit stop for a replacement Citroen front wing.

Lap 12 saw Rowland pull the pin and push - setting the fastest lap of the race having banked three or four percentage points of usable energy on the rest back in the pack. The Brit clambered from the back of the pack to sixth and looked to be pushing hard to the front.

Maloney was the first to jump for his initial of two mandatory 50kW, all-wheel drive ATTACK MODE boosts - firing the Lola Yamaha ABT driver to the top six. Vergne followed a lap later with an early activation - firing himself up into the top six, too on Lap 17.

Rowland made it all the way to the front of the field and started to manage a gap to Buemi in P2 - the Nissan three percent to the good on remaining energy.

Nato then took ATTACK to slice into P1 on Lap 21, with a similar energy advantage on the pack to that of Rowland - and using it to steer to a two-second lead. Both he and Rowland had clambered 15 positions from the start.

Rowland then responded with ATTACK on Lap 22, dropping the Nissan driver to the back end of the top 10 as the pack's pace began to pick up - some six seconds a lap quicker than the first third of the race.

By the end of his activation Rowland shook out second behind Nato, with only Mitch Evans in the Jaguar looking better placed on remaining energy - the Kiwi sitting third just behind Nato and Rowland. A lap later on 27, Evans hit the front with energy in-hand. It looked like he'd timed things perfectly with a six-minute initial ATTACK MODE boost to take P1.

With six laps left Evans started to try and build a gap to Rowland behind - 1.6 seconds. Vergne followed in third with Nato, Wehrlein, Buemi, da Costa, Mueller, Barnard and Ticktum rounded out the top 10.

The second ATTACK MODE activations saw Evans blink last with now a two-second gap in first spot. Lap 32 and Evans did jump - with Wehrlein now out front but with a minute's less ATTACK MODE to play with. Rowland, however, in fourth had a further minute of that 50kW, all-wheel drive boost on even Evans, as well as a percent of energy in hand.

Mitch made the move for the lead out of the final turn on Lap 32, and it looked like Rowland would follow by Wehrlein's Porsche - and he did across the start/finish a lap later, although seemingly under Yellow Flag conditions.

After a Full Course Yellow to recover the debris that threw that Yellow Flag, two racing laps were left with the drivers pinned. Evans was able to hold fast and keep Rowland at bay with Wehrlein sealing another home podium for Porsche on home soil.