Müller Claims Maiden Victory as Porsche Celebrates 75 Years at the 2026 Hankook Berlin E-Prix

Nico Müller claimed his maiden ABB FIA Formula E World Championship victory at the 2026 Hankook Berlin E-Prix, timing his PIT BOOST and ATTACK MODE perfectly across 39 laps of the Tempelhof circuit to win on the 75th anniversary of Porsche Motorsport. The Swiss driver started sixth, stayed invisible through the opening phase, and led from Lap 29 to the flag. Nick Cassidy charged from fifth to second for Citroën Racing. Oliver Rowland took third for Nissan. Fourteen points separate the top four. The second Berlin race runs tomorrow.

Key Points – 2026 Hankook Berlin E-Prix Round 7 Race Report

• Müller wins at the 69th attempt, maiden Formula E victory on Porsche’s home race weekend, the 75th anniversary of their motorsport programme
• Cassidy P2 from P5, one of his cleanest drives this season, managing a lower back issue throughout
• Rowland P3, fourth podium in seven races
• Mortara leads the Drivers’ Championship after Round 7. Fourteen points split the top four
• Wehrlein classified P19 after a puncture ended any chance of points. Championship lead gone, now second, three behind Mortara
• Ticktum classified P20 for CUPRA KIRO after a technical issue ended a likely podium. Martí recovers from P15 to P7

Tempelhof’s Demands

Berlin always does this. The Tempelhof circuit is abrasive, energy-sensitive, and does not forgive anything that is slightly off. Elevated track temperatures across the race weekend added another layer, with tyre degradation and energy management proving decisive from the moment qualifying ended. The PIT BOOST format was fully in play, and engineers spent the race balancing outright pace against what the track surface and the battery were willing to give back. Berlin’s peloton racing opened the race up. Whoever timed their strategic moves correctly would win. Müller timed everything correctly.

Müller’s Perfect Lap 29

Starting sixth, Müller ran inside the top ten through the opening phase without drawing attention to himself. He came in for his PIT BOOST, pushed hard when he rejoined, then took six minutes of ATTACK MODE and sliced through the top six to reach the front on Lap 29. That was the race won. He emerged with a four-second lead and four percentage points of usable energy over the drivers around him. Cassidy had the pace to pressure him but never the margin to make it a fight. Müller drove to the flag cleanly.

Müller had led more laps than any other driver in Season 12 before Berlin without converting. The 69th attempt ended that wait, at home, on a day Porsche had circled long before the season started. He was not shy about what comes next. Porsche are fighting for all three championships heading into the second half of the season, and the Drivers’ title is explicitly on his list.

Cassidy’s Controlled Climb

Nick Cassidy started fifth and finished second. He said afterwards it was one of his cleanest drives this season. Managing a lower back issue across recent rounds, he took his PIT BOOST on Lap 21, activated ATTACK MODE on Lap 29, and extracted every point the race had to offer. His pace was not enough to challenge Müller in the final phase but it was enough to hold everyone else. After Madrid, where the qualifying speed was there and the result was not, Berlin gave Cassidy the result his recent drives have deserved.

The result moves Cassidy to fifth in the Drivers’ Championship and takes Citroën Racing to fourth in the Teams’ standings. Teammate Jean-Éric Vergne had strong pace in Free Practice 2, nearly topped the timesheets, but tyre issues in qualifying left him starting P16. He fought through to P14, his PIT BOOST on Lap 22 and ATTACK MODE on Lap 32 not generating the track position the first stint had promised. The team leaves Race 1 with 18 points and clear work to do to give Vergne a cleaner platform on Sunday.

Rowland Challenges for Second

Oliver Rowland qualified third, ran in the front group through the opening exchanges, and led the race before coming in for his PIT BOOST at the end of Lap 26. He took ATTACK MODE late, found the pace to challenge Cassidy for second in the closing laps, and fell just short. The Lola cars reaching the front mid-race changed the energy picture in a way Nissan had not scripted, leaving Rowland slightly short at exactly the wrong moment. He pushed anyway. Fourth podium in seven races. The reigning champion is scoring consistently while the contenders above him drop points.

Wehrlein’s race ended with a puncture. Classified P19, scoreless, from a round where any result would have kept him in a commanding championship position. He drops to second in the standings, three points behind Mortara. The German came to Berlin as the leader. He leaves it chasing.

Mortara, CUPRA KIRO and the Rest

Edoardo Mortara took pole, adding three bonus points to his tally, and finished fourth for Mahindra. Not the conversion he needed, but Wehrlein’s puncture hands him the championship lead regardless. Jake Dennis had the most frustrating afternoon in the field. He ran fifth for Andretti with a strategy that was working, then failed to deploy ATTACK MODE twice at crucial moments and paid for it. Dan Ticktum for CUPRA KIRO had a similar story: starting fourth, strong through the opening phase, his PIT BOOST put him in net podium contention, then a technical issue ended his race. Classified P20 when fifth or better was the likely return. Mitch Evans rounded out the top six for Jaguar TCS Racing.

Pepe Martí finished seventh for CUPRA KIRO, climbing from P15 through conservative energy management early and a well-timed PIT BOOST on Lap 25. A piece of plastic in the radiator caused the battery to overheat in the closing phase, costing him a likely top five. Taylor Barnard scored eighth for DS Penske, four points from a car that showed race-leading pace in free practice. Nyck de Vries crossed the line ninth for Mahindra and António Félix da Costa completed the top ten for Jaguar. Maximilian Günther finished eleventh, having led the race briefly from P11 on the grid before a Pit Boost issue complicated his second stint. Sébastien Buemi crossed the line twelfth for Envision. Drugovich thirteenth for Andretti, Vergne fourteenth, Maloney fifteenth, Eriksson sixteenth, di Grassi seventeenth. Nato finished eighteenth for Nissan.

Away From the Track

The racing finished at Tempelhof but the day carried weight beyond the result. Formula E’s Berlin round has grown into one of the fixtures on the calendar, and Round 7 brought a crowd that reflected it. Former Formula 1 race winner Mark Webber attended alongside 2023 F1 Academy champion Marta García, German driver Sophia Flörsch, and racing driver-turned-actor Richy Müller. Olympic gold medallist Laura Nolte and fellow Olympian Deborah Levi joined driver meet-and-greets and Citroën Racing garage tours. German pop singer Zah1de headlined the Saturday evening entertainment before watching from the Formula E EMOTION CLUB. Formula E confirmed their B Corp Certification this season, marking the series’ position as the benchmark for sustainable innovation in motorsport. Round 8 runs tomorrow at 16:05 local time.

Final Classification – 2026 Hankook Berlin E-Prix Round 7

Standings Snapshot – After Round 7

Coffee Corner Take

Nico Müller waited 69 races for this. He got it at home, on a weekend Porsche had circled long before the season started, in a car he has put at the front all year without the win to show for it. The 75th anniversary, Tempelhof, family in the grandstands. He delivered everything the occasion demanded and said clearly afterwards that the Drivers’ Championship is the next target. That isn’t a modest statement. It is a statement about where Porsche think this is going.

Wehrlein’s puncture reshapes the season. He came to Berlin as the most consistent scorer in Season 12. One mechanical failure and he leaves in second. Mortara leads now, but he was the polesitter who finished fourth. The conversion question around the Mahindra driver is still there. He now has to answer it from the top of the standings.

Fourteen points cover the top four. Evans is third, and he won in Madrid. If Müller and Wehrlein take points off each other tomorrow, Jaguar will be back in this conversation by Sunday evening. Da Costa is fourth. Berlin is the kind of weekend that resets everything, and that reset has not finished yet.

Cassidy’s podium is the quietly important result. He said he took responsibility for not delivering in recent rounds. Berlin was the response. Back on the podium, managing pain, extracting everything the strategy offered. His championship gap is large but his momentum is real.

Ticktum and Dennis both had podiums taken away by failures that had nothing to do with their driving. CUPRA KIRO’s pace is there. The results are not reflecting it. That cannot keep happening. Round 8 is tomorrow. This season still hasn’t settled.