Formula E Driver Power Rankings after 2019 Santiago ePrix
By Asher Fair
How do the 22 full-time Formula E drivers stack up against one another with three races on the 2018-2019 schedule now in the books?
Envision Virgin Racing’s Sam Bird earned his first victory of the 2018-2019 Formula E season by winning the third race on the 13-race schedule, the Santiago ePrix.
By winning the 36-lap race around the 14-turn, 1.492-mile (2.401-kilometer) Parque O’Higgins Circuit in Santiago, Chile, Bird became the third different driver to win a race so far this season.
BMW i Andretti Motorsport’s Antonio Felix da Costa opened up the season by winning the Ad Diriyah ePrix, snapping his 38-race win drought, and Mahindra Racing’s Jerome d’Ambrosio won the season’s second race, the Marrakesh ePrix, snapping his 30-race win drought.
Bird’s win drought was only at seven races coming into the Santiago ePrix, as he won last season’s Rome ePrix.
How did the action from Parque O’Higgins Circuit affect the Formula E Driver Power Rankings? Here are the non-formulated Formula E Driver Power Rankings with three of the 13 races on the 2018-2019 schedule having been completed.
Non-formulated Formula E Driver Power Rankings
Rank – Driver – Car, Team, Manufacturer – [Last Rank (Trend)]
1st – Sam Bird – #2, Envision Virgin Racing, Spark-Audi – [5th (+4)]
2nd – Jerome d’Ambrosio – #64, Mahindra Racing, Spark-Mahindra – [1st (-1)]
3rd – Robin Frijns – #4, Envision Virgin Racing, Spark-Audi – [4th (+1)]
4th – Pascal Wehrlein – #94, Mahindra Racing, Spark-Mahindra – [22nd (+18)]
5th – Daniel Abt – #66, Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler, Spark-Audi – [11th (+6)]
6th – Mitch Evans – #20, Panasonic Jaguar Racing, Spark-Jaguar – [9th (+3)]
7th – Jean-Eric Vergne – #25, DS Techeetah, Spark-DS Automobiles – [2nd (-5)]
8th – Antonio Felix da Costa – #28, BMW i Andretti Motorsport, Spark-BMW – [3rd (-5)]
9th – Alexander Sims – #27, BMW i Andretti Motorsport, Spark-BMW – [7th (-2)]
10th – Andre Lotterer – #36, DS Techeetah, Spark-DS Automobiles – [6th (-4)]
11th – Edoardo Mortara – #48, Venturi, Spark-Venturi – [16th (+5)]
12th – Sebastien Buemi – #23, Nissan e.dams, Spark-Nissan – [8th (-4)]
13th – Lucas di Grassi – #11, Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler, Spark-Audi – [10th (-3)]
14th – Oliver Turvey – #16, NIO, Spark-NIO – [17th (+3)]
15th – Oliver Rowland – #22, Nissan e.dams, Spark-Nissan – [12th (-3)]
16th – Jose Maria Lopez – #7, Geox Dragon Racing, Spark-Penske – [14th (-2)]
17th – Nelson Piquet Jr. – #3, Panasonic Jaguar Racing, Spark-Jaguar – [13th (-4)]
18th – Maximilian Gunther – #6, Geox Dragon Racing, Spark-Penske – [15th (-3)]
19th – Gary Paffett – #17, HWA Racelab, Spark-Venturi – [21st (+2)]
20th – Tom Dillmann – #8, NIO, Spark-NIO – [18th (-2)]
21st – Felipe Massa – #19, Venturi, Spark-Venturi – [19th (-2)]
22nd – Stoffel Vandoorne – #5, HWA Racelab, Spark-Venturi – [20th (-2)]
Biggest Movers
Up: Pascal Wehrlein (+18)
Down: Jean-Eric Vergne, Antonio Felix da Costa (-5)
Here are the formulated Formula E Driver Power Rankings following the Santiago ePrix. To see how the formulated Formula E Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.