António Félix da Costa won the inaugural Madrid E-Prix with precise use of Pit Boost and held off attacks from his teammate Mitch Evans in the closing laps to give Jaguar a 1-2 finish that cuts Porsche's lead in the teams' championship to just four points.

The Portuguese driver secured his second consecutive victory by repeating the same logic that worked for him in Jeddah two weeks ago, pitting earlier than everyone else to run in clean air and arrive at the end of the race with energy and track position. That victory in Saudi Arabia had broken a 20-month winless streak dating back to Portland 2024, and now in Madrid he added another 25 points to jump to fourth in the championship with 64 units, 19 behind Pascal Wehrlein.

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Porsche's lead reduced to four points

Jaguar arrived at Jarama 27 points behind Porsche in the teams' standings and leaves with a four-point deficit, a turnaround that makes sense when looking at the points contributed by each driver pairing. Da Costa and Evans combined for 43 points between them, while Wehrlein with his third place and Müller with eighth managed just 20 for Porsche. In the manufacturers' standings, the gap is even smaller, with just three points separating the two programs.

Wehrlein retains the individual lead with 83 points, and Mortara remains second with 72, despite finishing fifth in a race where his pace suggested more. Evans moved up to third with 65 units, just one more than da Costa. The top four in the championship are separated by 19 points.

Da Costa repeats the Jeddah strategy

Da Costa was the first among the front-runners to take his Pit Boost stop, something that carries more weight when compared to what he did in Jeddah. In that race, he copied the Attack Mode window that Wehrlein had found to be winning on Friday and built a 3.5-second advantage that no one could close.

In Madrid, the gain was smaller because the Pit Boost format compresses the gaps, but the principle was the same. The laps he ran in clean air before the rest of the field made their mandatory stop gave him the energy cushion to arrive at the final phase from the front. Once everyone had completed their stops and activated Attack Mode in the final laps, da Costa already had the track position he needed to manage his advantage rather than having to create it.

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Four cars within less than a second at the finish

All that advantage nearly evaporated when the top four activated their Attack Mode in the final laps. Ticktum in the Cupra Kiro made an outside pass on Wehrlein that opened the door for Evans to also advance in the final chicane, leaving the fight for victory between the two Jaguars with Wehrlein and Ticktum close behind.

Evans moved into second at the hairpin and for a moment seemed to have the speed to complete the pass on his own teammate, but da Costa covered the inside on every corner during the final lap and left no room for the move to materialize. They finished separated by 0.386 seconds, with Wehrlein reclaiming third place from Ticktum in the final meters. All four crossed the line within less than a second.

Cassidy qualifies first and finishes 17th

Nick Cassidy gave Citroën Racing its first Formula E pole position by winning the knockout duels on a track where wet conditions complicated the session for several drivers. It is Cassidy's eighth pole in the category, and the three points place him fifth in the championship with 51 units, but that single-lap speed did not translate into the race.

Cassidy dropped positions as the laps went on and finished 17th. The team has been fast in qualifying several times this season but has not been able to sustain that performance in the race, a discrepancy that continues to cost them points.

Nyck de Vries had the second-fastest qualifying time and everything to fight for the top three, but contact with Wehrlein's Porsche in the early laps cost him his front wing and a five-second penalty that dropped him to 18th place, more than 53 seconds behind the winner.

Pepe Martí finished ninth, scoring two points for Cupra Kiro on an afternoon where the Circuito de Madrid Jarama filled its grandstands to welcome Formula E for the first time, with King Felipe VI among the attendees. The category returns to action on May 2nd and 3rd in Berlin for rounds 7 and 8 of the championship.

 2026 CUPRA Raval Madrid E-Prix 2026

Pos	#	driver	team	Delay
1	#13	António Félix Da Costa	JAGUAR TCS RACING	-
2	#9	Mitch Evans	JAGUAR TCS RACING	+0.386s
3	#94	Pascal Wehrlein	PORSCHE FORMULA E TEAM	+0.799s
4	#33	Dan Ticktum	CUPRA KIRO	+0.985s
5	#48	Edoardo Mortara	MAHINDRA RACING	+1.570s
6	#16	Sébastien Buemi	ENVISION RACING	+1.922s
7	#27	Jake Dennis	ANDRETTI FORMULA E	+3.760s
8	#51	Nico Müller	PORSCHE FORMULA E TEAM	+3.884s
9	#3	Josep Maria Martí	CUPRA KIRO	+4.117s
10	#14	Joel Eriksson	ENVISION RACING	+6.576s
11	#23	Norman Nato	NISSAN FORMULA E TEAM	+7.182s
12	#11	Lucas Di Grassi	LOLA YAMAHA ABT FORMULA E TEAM	+10.216s
13	#7	Maximilian Günther	DS PENSKE	+15.686s
14	#25	Jean-Éric Vergne	CITROËN RACING	+16.345s
15	#28	Felipe Drugovich	ANDRETTI FORMULA E	+26.016s
16	#1	Oliver Rowland	NISSAN FORMULA E TEAM	+26.917s
17	#37	Nick Cassidy	CITROËN RACING	+29.372s
18	#21	Nyck De Vries	MAHINDRA RACING	+53.664s
19	#77	Taylor Barnard	DS PENSKE	+55.751s
20	#22	Zane Maloney	LOLA YAMAHA ABT FORMULA E TEAM	+55.889s