Mahindra Racing’s Nyck de Vries acquired his setup good to fireplace from fifth to victory within the 2026 TDK Tokyo E-Prix Spherical 15 in blended circumstances, heading residence Citroen Racing’s Nick Cassidy and Andretti’s Jake Dennis, with title contenders Pascal Wehrlein (Porsche) and Mitch Evans (Jaguar TCS Racing) failing to attain.
De Vries made a well timed soar for ATTACK on Lap 28 and picked off these forward to achieve reigning champion Oliver Rowland in P1; the Nissan driver himself on a cost late on.
The Brit elected to not match de Vries up along with his personal last of two obligatory 50kW all-wheel drive ATTACK MODE activations, and that proved pricey as de Vries made it by Rowland by way of the center sector of that very same tour.
Mahindra had opted to set the automobile up for a drying floor, playing on additional rain holding off – after a deluge earlier within the afternoon. De Vries navigated a late Purple Flag for a second win of 2025/26 and Mahindra’s second of the season; a feat the staff haven’t achieved since 2017/18.
Cassidy and Citroen made the identical wager, and it paid off; the New Zealander scything from thirteenth to second and extra silverware after yesterday’s poignant third-place end.
Dennis, staggeringly, clambered from seventeenth to the ultimate spot on the rostrum because of a late ATTACK MODE cost. That sees him prime of the Drivers’ World Championship heading to the location of his first title victory in London and the finale weekend.
The Season 9 champion was in a position to benefit from Pascal Werhlein’s distress, with a second non-score for the Porsche driver in as many rounds in Tokyo leaving him third within the working. Mitch Evans (Jaguar TCS Racing) failed to complete right this moment, too, and having provisionally led the working earlier within the race, he leaves Tokyo two factors behind Dennis in second.
Simply 5 factors break up the highest three drivers within the factors desk, whereas that consequence from Dennis sees Porsche over the road because the 2025/26 Producers’ World Champions. Jaguar nonetheless head Porsche within the Groups’ desk, which, just like the drivers, will go right down to the wire in London.
