The winners and losers from the 2024-2025 Formula E season

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There have been many highs and lows for drivers, teams and the Formula E championship across the 2024-25 season. From rain-soaked races and incredible comebacks to disappointing debuts, these are the biggest winners and losers from the all-electric championship's latest season.
Winner: Oliver Rowland
The first person in our winners list has to be Oliver Rowland, the newly-crowned Formula E World Champion. Rowland became the 10th different champ from all 11 seasons, and delivered a dominant display that is not often seen in the electric championship.
Four wins and a further three podiums across the first nine races cemented Rowland as the clear favourite as the season passed its halfway point, but a slip in results followed and Rowland didn't find himself on the podium again after winning Nissan's home race in Tokyo.
Still, it's a big achievement for the boy from Barnsley, who is currently celebrating by taking his team to Ibiza for some well-earned merriment.
Loser: Zane Maloney
First in the losers list has to be Zane Maloney, the only full-time driver on the grid not to score a single point. Not only that, but he sits 24th in a 22-driver championship, with reserve drivers Felipe Drugovich and Sergio Sette Camara both managing lock in top-10 results during the Berlin weekend.
Zane Maloney, Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team
It was his rookie season, and the Lola Yamaha ABT hasn't looked like the easiest beast to tame, but it's still a disappointing end to his debut campaign.
Winner: Taylor Barnard
McLaren's Taylor Barnard enjoyed a very impressive debut season in Formula E, even if he said he didn't 'feel like a rookie' as early as the second round in Mexico City. The youngster got the call up to deputise for Sam Bird last year following an injury, replacing him for three rounds, but after Jake Hughes' departure got the full-time seat at the team for 2024-25.
He started his campaign in style by securing his first podium at round one in Sao Paulo, before achieving back-to-back podium finishes in Jeddah, and claimed his first pole position. More silverware in Tokyo and Shanghai followed, and Barnard finished the season fourth in the drivers' table.
Despite McLaren's departure from the championship, Barnard is expected to join one of the Stellantis-powered teams for the upcoming 2025-26 season.
Loser: Robin Frijns
Finishing 19th in the drivers' championship is not what I expect from Robin Frijns. The Envision driver has participated in 117 E-Prix, winning two races and picking up 16 podiums in that time, but this season was one of his worst.
Robin Frijns, Envision Racing
His best result was seventh place in London, which doesn't look great when you consider that his team-mate Sebastien Buemi won in Monaco and achieved a further two podiums in London and Jakarta.
Winner: Mahindra
Last season was a rough one for Mahindra. Gone were its winning ways, but the team remained optimistic about the change in regulations that was around the corner… and it was right to be.
Hard work and a commitment to redesign almost every element of its car for Gen3 evo, as well as the feedback from both Edoardo Mortara and Nyck de Vries, meant that this season it almost quadrupled its points haul year-on-year to end on a very respectable 186.
Five podiums across the 2024-25 season, and lots of consistency, meant the team finished the season fourth in the championship and left one very happy team boss in Frederic Bertrand.
Loser: Norman Nato
Although penalties and luck might have got in Norman Nato's way this season, the Nissan driver was still in a sorry state. A maiden pole position in Miami was quickly forgotten as his team-mate Oliver Rowland dominated proceedings – with the two ending the year with a 163-point difference in the standings.
Norman Nato, Nissan Formula E Team
His disappointing performances also hit the team's chances at the championship, which slipped away and into Porsche's hands. What's more, there's still no official announcement yet on whether he'll retain his seat for next season.
Winner: Cupra Kiro
Talking of turnarounds, it doesn't get much better than Cupra Kiro. After finishing last in the standings a year ago, the team had a huge cash injection over the off-season courtesy of Forest Road and made a deal with Porsche to use its previous generation powertrains. The result? The team's best season in Formula E in a decade.
Dan Ticktum was the star of the show, using his talent to secure his first career podium in Tokyo before then collecting a maiden win in Jakarta and finishing off the season with a debut pole position. The only downside to its season was David Beckmann, who only scored a single point in London.
Loser: Hankook
Formula E's tyre supplier took quite the battering this year in conversations between teams and drivers, after the all-weather tyre proved unsuitable at the high number of rain-affected races this year.
With wet races in Shanghai, Monaco, Tokyo and Berlin, as well as soggy sessions in Miami and Mexico, the Hankook iON tyres received plenty of criticism.
Maximilian Guenther, DS Penske
'It is not a wet tyre, it doesn't work in the wet at any point,' McLaren's Sam Bird explained after Monaco. 'Even the guys at the front can say it doesn't even work in the wet. All the drivers have said similar things [about introducing a full wet tyre] for quite a while, not just with the current supplier. The cars are getting so quick now, I think Formula E should consider bringing a form of wet tyre to the races.'
Motorsport.com understands that Bridgestone will be introducing both a slick and a wet compound when it takes over as the championship's official tyre supplier from the 2026-2027 season.
Winner: Porsche
The German manufacturer' took home both the teams' and manufacturers' honours in London, a first for it in Formula E. It was a solid effort from both Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Felix da Costa across the 16 rounds, but despite the pair's 10 podium finishes there was a feeling that there could have been more on the table.
Da Costa was the victim of bad luck across several races, with Wehrlein involved in a heavy shunt during the first race in Sao Paulo that saw his car flip and impact the barrier. However, there have been moments of weakness at the team in terms of strategy, and speculation that the two team-mates don't see eye to eye.
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