Race Highlights | 2026 TDK Tokyo E-Prix Round 15 Highlights | Formula E

The five red lights come on. The lights come on and we go racing. Mortara away well, likewise. Antonio Fins da Costa, keep an eye out for Mitch Evans and also Dan Tickton coming through on the outside. Da Costa looks to try and tackle Mortara, can't quite manage it down into Turn 1. So the pole sitter holds the race lead as they funnel their way through the first couple of corners. They're scrabbling for grip and trying to find traction as they head down the hill in towards Turn 3 through the left of Turn 4. The top three or four places staying pretty much as you were there. As we see Mortara have a huge slide through 9 there. We mentioned about how that could be a tricky corner with the water on the inside of the apex and that has caught him out slightly with that moment of oversteer. Didn't get close to the barrier, didn't make any contact. Now we're back on board with Pascal Wehrleiner who again picks off the Nissan who was holding up that bottleneck effectively. Norman Nato seems to be struggling for grip out there. Bahn has a massive energy advantage over the top two. Massive. And look at him, more pace as well. Massive pace advantage. Here we go into Turn 9 on the inside of Evoile Mortara. That's a brave move there, especially in these conditions. Costa tries to defend it into Turn 16. Can he invent something into the final couple of corners? He ducks his way to the inside. That's a brave move there from Taylor Barnard but he gets it done. That's going to push Da Costa into the clutches of Evoile Mortara potentially here as well. Over the line we go. New race leader is Taylor Barnard just as he comes to the end of attack mode. Da Costa down to second. Mortara down into P3. Evans does finally go for his first attack mode. Where's he going to come out here? This is going to be really, really close. Rowland's on the outside then. Wehrlein looking for the move on the inside there as well. Here comes Evans through on Wehrlein. Can he get through on Rowland as well? Not quite into Turn 7. And the championship rivals really getting into it. This is so tight here. Rowland defends the line through into Turn 9. Evans is going to try and send it through into Turn 10. But Rowland's going to block the line on the inside. He's going to force Evans to go the long way around the outside. Side by side they go through into Turn 10. Rowland holds off the challenge from the championship leader here in Tokyo. But surely it's only a case of when and not if. Evans is going to be able to find his way past into Turn 15. We know how much more traction the four-wheel drive gives you and how much more punch and drive you have coming out of the corner. The leader's coming through. But where is Oliver Rowland in all of this? And crucially, where is Mitch Evans? Pulls to the inside. Can't make it stick into Turn 16 there either. Rowland through for third position then here. Nine laps to go. And it's game on for the victory all of a sudden here for Oliver Rowland who's been at sea all weekend. He's had no pace underneath him. And suddenly now, in these conditions, his race is coming alive once again. We saw this last time out in Shanghai. We saw how important tyre pressures were as the circuit drives up during the race. If you go the wrong way, you could be punished. He's attacking the Costa. Here we go. Sorry, Billy, on the inside. He goes through for second position down into Turn 10. He made it look easy, Oliver Rowland. Now into second into Nissan. He won't get a free attack mode here. Rowland's too close. If he goes for it, Rowland will take the lead of this race. It sounds like that's the risk they're prepared to take here. I think they want to manage their risk against the rest of the field. He's gone for it. He has to. He's gone in for it. But here's Rowland. He's gone through for the race lead. Rowland, to remind you, still got one attack mode remaining. Look at the gap. De Vries is on the back of Rowland. Rowland's got four minutes of attack mode to use compared to De Vries who's got just over two and a half minutes at the minute now. But this is De Vries' race now. He looks like he's arrived in the Shinkansen. Here we go then, side by side with De Vries versus Rowland. He makes it look easy and goes through for the lead. De Vries on attack mode behind. Keep cool. We love him. He's struggling like hell. Cassidy is the man you need to watch there as well. You've got Verne who has got one attack mode left. Rowland who has got one attack mode left. Cassidy's in his final attack mode deployment as it stands for now. He's going to have a lot more pace. He's right on the back of his fellow Citroën racing driver, Dennis, meanwhile. We were talking about him a lap or so ago. He was in 10th place. He's now through and into 6th position. Oliver Rowland, he should have taken that attack mode on the last. He's still not taking that attack mode. I'm not quite sure what the strategy at Nissan is here for him to not take attack mode because that's his only form of defense when he's got these cars that are flying up to the back of him. Dennis has gone in for his final attack mode deployment and it's a healthy one. Six minutes. What's the gap between himself and the rest of the field? Two and a half seconds off the back of Taylor Barnard. So it's not insurmountable. It's a tall order. But Barnard, he's five seconds a lap faster. So I expect Barnard to be gone in half a lap. But can he get into the podium position? Jake's having a great run here, up to 5th. I mean, he started in 18th place. This is an unbelievable drive. I cannot tell you how difficult it must have been to make those decisions, to make all those moves, which we haven't seen on camera. And now he's up into top five. Right. Now we've been focusing so much on these battles at the sharp end of the field. Let's take stock because, as we see, Dennis going through for 4th place. Oliver Rowland into Turn 10. That was a nice move there from the Season 9 World Champion. Dennis last time around, a 1.14.528. Jean-Éric Vergne, a 1.16.5. But Cassidy, who's in attack mode, just to give you an idea of the offset there, a 1.15.2. He was eight tenths of a second faster than another driver who's in the same circumstances. If the leaders start fighting, Dennis can win this race. Absolutely right. Cassidy comes to the end of his attack mode. We're on board then here with Dennis, who's looking at the other Citroen of Jean-Éric Vergne. He's going to have the inside line and blast past him on the exit of Turn 8 The gap is closing. Two minutes, so he's got just under two laps, really, in terms of the ability to use that attack mode. Sure, but he's also got more energy when he gets there as well. He's got 9% relative to 7% and 8% for De Vries and Cassidy. Yeah, but you want to get there quickly. You almost want to overspend now. Get the move done. It's going to be easier for him to defend, or more to the point, it's going to be easier for him to overtake. He's still got the attack mode. Got a double yellow at Turn 5, though, and another yellow flag at Turn 8. Look at this. It's a car park. Huge drama then here. Mortara's out. You've got Joel Eriksson out. You've got Antonio Finster-Costa. The two lonely Yamaha apps are out. This could be a red flag, and it is a red flag. Jake Dennis' charge for victory amounts to nothing here then. Right, let's work out what happened then. So we've got Joel Eriksson here on Mortara going through into the left-hander of four. Behind them is Antonio Finster-Costa, so I think it's going to be Eriksson and Mortara that are going to connect. They go on the inside through into the right-hander, then through into the left. Mortara gives a shove there to Eriksson, and then it all concertinas up. Nobody else has got anywhere to go. It's a one-lap sprint to the chequered flag here in Tokyo. De Vries leads them across the line, followed by Cassidy, followed by Jake Dennis. Down and towards the first corner we go. Can anybody think about sending it through on the inside? No, they're too far away as it stands for now. De Vries holds firm at the sharp end of this one, followed by Cassidy, Dennis, Roland, and then Jonny Revern completing your top five. Vern looking for the attack here on Roland, looking to get through into fourth place, but not quite able to find his way through. Into turn 16 we go. Dennis looks for the inside line there on Nick Cassidy. Can't quite do it though. Behind you've got Vern and Roland, but Roland is absolutely critical and energy in fourth place. That might leave him vulnerable to Vern. Out of the final corner we go now. It's a second win of the season for Nick De Vries here in Tokyo. As Cassidy comes over the line in second, Dennis holds on to third place. And Roland, did he hold on to fourth against Jonny Revern? He did by just under three-tenths of a second. Well, what a treat here in Tokyo. Nick De Vries takes the win by six-tenths of a second from Nick Cassidy and Jake Dennis on the podium. Two races in succession for both Cassidy and Dennis ahead of Roland, then Vern, Natto, Buemi, Muller, Barnard, and Günther completing your point scorers here. I do want to thank the gods because I think we were a little bit lucky today as well. Obviously, we had a poor start. I think we opted for a drying track. In hindsight, that obviously worked out in our favor. I think it was very important to save energy in the beginning of the race because once the track dried, you needed the energy. I think we were a little bit lucky with the red flag at the end because Jake was coming on strong in attack. But very, very happy and proud of my team who executed a great race and scored our second win of the season. So, very happy. And the upshot is with third place for Jake Dennis and a double non-score for both Evans and Pascal Wehrlein here tonight. It's now Dennis who leads the championship by two points with just two races remaining. You see Roland still very much in contention there in fourth place as well. Mortara, despite the fact that TDNF from this race is in P5. Cassidy also moving up and likewise Nick de Vries in the championship order. And now time for Her Imperial Highness Princess Yoko of Mikasa who gave a rousing speech to the crowd and the drivers and the teams here before the start of this race. She presents the winner's trophy to Nick de Vries, his sixth career win in Formula E, his second of Season 12 and in the final year of the Gen 3 era of this championship. It is now time to spray the champagne here in Tokyo where we have been treated under the lights to two phenomenal races. The upshot is Nick de Vries leads it but we've got a new championship leader in Jake Dennis with two races left to go in 26.