Pascal Wehrlein ended a three‑race streak without scoring with a victory in Shanghai that leaves him just three points behind championship leader Mitch Evans. The Porsche driver arrived in China with a 19‑point deficit, hampered by a 14th place in Sanya and a blank weekend in Monaco, but the first race of the E‑Prix brought him back into the title conversation. He started from pole, held off Jake Dennis in the opening laps, got the PIT BOOST right one lap before the Safety Car, and pulled away from António Félix da Costa on the restart to score his 10th victory in Formula E.

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Wehrlein and Dennis swapped the lead in the early laps with instructions from the Porsche pit wall to push without reserve even if energy consumption spiked. Dennis led on lap 6, but Wehrlein retook the position at the end of lap 7 and never gave it up. The PIT BOOST window opened on lap 13 with a group led by Felipe Drugovich pitting one lap later. Wehrlein, Da Costa and Oliver Rowland stopped on lap 15, and Dennis on lap 16.

When the order settled, the Porsche was at the front with Da Costa and Jean‑Éric Vergne behind, just before the rain intensified and forced the Safety Car out. Edoardo Mortara was running third at that moment and was left with no chance to use the ATTACK MODE he had just activated, dropping him to 15th place. The restart came on lap 22, with Wehrlein activating ATTACK MODE immediately to pull away from Da Costa, who finished 1.6 seconds behind. Dennis and Drugovich coordinated positions in the final laps to secure third and fourth for Andretti. Nyck de Vries staged the comeback of the day, climbing from 16th to fifth in the Mahindra, followed by Vergne, Joel Eriksson and Evans, who could only manage eighth.

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The 19‑point gap that Evans brought to Shanghai was cut to three. Wehrlein now has 129 points, Evans 132, Da Costa moves up to third with 111, Dennis is fourth with 109, and Rowland drops to fifth with the same total. Porsche leads the manufacturers' standings with 364 points to Jaguar's 309. The second race of the Shanghai E‑Prix takes place on Sunday.