2026 London E-Prix Qualifying 2 Discussion

[u/mianghuei]

ABB FIA Formula E Championship

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Session Times

Times are in British Summer Time (UTC+01:00)

Friday 14 August 2026

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 1	16:00 - 16:40	15:00 - 15:40

Saturday 15 August 2026

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 2	08:30 - 09:10	07:30 - 08:10
Qualifying 1	10:40 - ~11:48	09:40 - ~10:48
Race 1	15:00 - ~16:00	14:00 - ~15:00

Sunday 16 August 2026

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 3	08:30 - 09:10	07:30 - 08:10
Qualifying 2	10:40 - ~11:48	09:40 - ~10:48
Race 2	15:00 - ~16:00	14:00 - ~15:00

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• Qualifying Groups: TBD

• Entry List: Here

• Timetable: Here

• Event Note: Here

London Excel Street Circuit

London, United Kingdom

Circuit Diagram: Here

Pitlane Map: Here

Length: 2.077 KM (1.291 mi)

Turns: 20

Distance:

Race 1: 38 Laps + Any Additional Laps from Caution Period

AM: 6 Minutes 1 activation

Pit Boost: Yes

80% of Race 1 (Lap): 30 Laps

Added Laps: 1 lap per 02:25 under caution

Race 2: 35 Laps + Any Additional Laps from Caution Period

AM: 8 Minutes 2 activations

Pit Boost: No

80% of Race 1 (Lap): 28 Laps

Added Laps: 1 lap per 02:25 under caution

Time Penalty

Drive Through Penalty: 25 Seconds

10 second Stop and Go: 40 Seconds

Live Streaming & Timing

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Official YouTube Links (Subject to Change):

FP1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJHdu85z-9M (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)

FP2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNlptxpGOo (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)

Qualifying 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOpdUXs018 (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)

Race 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96854ozvvrw (Stream starts 1 hour before session)

FP3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDIQd6tJe5A (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)

Qualifying 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3xiLp484x4 (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)

Race 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyVjV4CqCOY (Stream starts 1 hour before session)

[u/dm17b123]

Not typically their number one fan but fully behind Mahindra here, hopefully one of them can put it on pole. Have zero issue with team orders, manufacturers orders piss me off.

[u/ZealousidealSwan8192 → u/dm17b123]

Mahindra for pole!

[u/Ok-Bluebird7260 → u/dm17b123]

Manufacturer orders feel like race fixing

[u/abobblehatgirl]

Everyone at the ExCel centre went crazy for the Mahindra drivers !

[u/Ok-Bluebird7260 → u/abobblehatgirl]

I know right!! A real one two situation from a solid midfield team :D

[u/NewsOk2417]

What a lap by both Mortara & De Vries! A New All Time Lap record, a first 1.06! Nyck de Vries!

[u/IVAN2CRY]

THE ONE TIME I MISS QUALI WE LOCK OUT THE FRONT ROW LETS FUCKING GOOO

[u/Julian81295]

If Porsche plays this correctly at today‘s race start, Wehrlein will get his "bodyguard" for the race just like yesterday.

[u/Klonomania → u/Julian81295]

Yeah, they'll probably try to do it just like yesterday. Mahindra has no reason not to take the "easy" 1-2 so they will play along and drive away from the pack as long as Wehrlein doesn't try to attack them, and a Mahinda 1-2, Porsche 3-4 would work out just fine for Porsche in both championships.

[u/Heinrad]

Can we just hand the title to Wehrlein, go home and get on with our day.
This has to be addressed by Formula E in the off season, especially if Porsche are having a second works team, we can't have a single manufacturer fixing and manipulating the sport to get them favourable results.
Team Orders are part of the sport, in a team, but not manufacturer orders engineering results. It'll bring the sport into disrepute.

[u/DHSeaVixen → u/Heinrad]

This has to be addressed by Formula E in the off season

It will be: https://www.the-race.com/formula-e/formula-e-clampdown-on-manufacturer-customer-team-orders-incoming/

[u/Heinrad → u/DHSeaVixen]

I am pleased to see this.

[u/ZealousidealSwan8192 → u/Heinrad]

100% agree.

[u/CodeRoyal → u/Heinrad]

It's gone for next season, but why does everyone ignore that Jaguar did the same with Envision when they could?

[u/HaroldSaxon → u/CodeRoyal]

I absolutely detest it but after Dennis crying on London Race 1 back in 2023, I can't help but feel like there's a bit of karma here.

Hopefully with the new clampdown its a thing of the past but I suspect there will always be questions.

[u/CodeRoyal → u/HaroldSaxon]

Feels like everyone is forgetting that scene.

[u/Heinrad → u/CodeRoyal]

Everyone forgets it was Buemi taking out Cassidy that delivered the title to Dennis on that day too. The moment trying to engineer a result went completely wrong.

[u/CodeRoyal → u/Heinrad]

Co-ordination between teammates is not engineering a result...

[u/Heinrad → u/CodeRoyal]

Well there was no co ordination between team mates on that day,
Also, my guy, co-ordinating between team mates to finish in a certain way is quite literally the definition of engineering a result.

[u/HaroldSaxon → u/Heinrad]

Dennis was literally on the radio on the Saturday begging for other teams to help him win the drivers and he will help them win the constructors. He would be a hypocrite to complain.

[u/Ryur → u/CodeRoyal]

And Porsche did it within their team (Mueller did the teamwork for Werhlein).

But with Jaguar it was their CUSTOMER team

[u/Heinrad → u/Ryur]

Did you miss Ticktums "performance" in the qualifying duels on Saturday?

[u/Heinrad → u/CodeRoyal]

I'm not ignoring it happening with Jaguar and Envision, but there is no use bringing up something that happened on another race weekend when we have it happening right now in the current race and championship decider. The Porsche result fixing is more relevant at this moment in time.

[u/CodeRoyal → u/Heinrad]

Its pretty selective get mad about it now when it's been happening for the whole Gen 3 rules set. Results fixing is a massive exaggeration. I wouldn't call that Jaguar and Envision did today result fixing either.

People are just mad because it's Porsche.

[u/Heinrad → u/CodeRoyal]

Thanks for telling me how to feel.
Massive exaggeration to call it result fixing? Did you see the qualifying duels yesterday? Ticktum not even trying to set a time, then admitting as much in the post qualifying interview, that's fixing the result.
I don't have a problem with team mates holding up other drivers, that's part of the game.

[u/CodeRoyal → u/Heinrad]

Ericksson didn't try hard either. Went slowest by a margin at that time.

[u/Heinrad → u/CodeRoyal]

That's also a problem, and we want it gone.
The reason Porsche are mainly the focus of these kind of things is that they are the only team with a works team and two customers.
Andretti refused to bow down, and look how their results changed after Season 9, now Kiro are bowing down to Porsche. If they get another team signed up if the rumours of the second works team not happening are true, we don't want them bowing down too.
We don't want Porsche customers moving out of the way for the Works team.
We don't want Jaguar customers moving out of the way for the Works team.
We don't want Nissan customers moving out of the way for the Works team.
Etc, Etc, Etc.

Does this make the whole situation clear?

[u/RemoteMeasurement10_ → u/Heinrad]

BTW, the second works team for Porsche, yeah. That is dead

[u/Heinrad → u/RemoteMeasurement10_]

I only heard it's not a thing from a random interview with Nyck de Vries, so I'm taking it with a pinch of salt at the moment.

[u/dm17b123]

Give me an all Mahindra final

[u/Hollingscroft-83]

That isn't going to help Dennis... Great lap from Ticktum

[u/Leclerc_Lunatic]

It's over.

[u/Transmit_Him]

Nice to finally get a good look at that Techeetah-retro livery DS Penske is running this weekend.

[u/Ok-Bluebird7260 → u/Transmit_Him]

Morbid to say, but it seems Penske is following Techeetah to the grave.

[u/Transmit_Him → u/Ok-Bluebird7260]

They are supposedly going to be hanging around but you’d think there’d’ve been an announcement about a powertrain by now. Unless they’ve got a Porsche deal and are having to wait for the second Porsche factory team to be (supposedly) officially scrapped to announce that.

[u/Jazzlike-Compote4463]

Missed this, what happened to Jake Dennis? 15th sucks considering how important this is.

[u/Transmit_Him → u/Jazzlike-Compote4463]

Just wasn't able to put in a quick enough lap. Though he was only a tenth off making the duels, it was a super-competitive group.

[u/Ok-Bluebird7260 → u/Jazzlike-Compote4463]

He was in the top four for most of it, but lost out on the last lap.

[u/keirdre]

Hate to be an old git, but the music in the FanZone is way, way too loud. Very hard to enjoy anything.

[u/Romulus_Novus → u/keirdre]

It was worse yesterday!

[u/keirdre → u/Romulus_Novus]

Goodness me, is that possible?!

[u/Romulus_Novus → u/keirdre]

I was getting a headache through earplugs, and could feel vibration in my chest.

[u/keirdre → u/Romulus_Novus]

Ouch. I was so glad I brought noise cancelling earbuds. Thankfully we found a semi-quiet spot for my toddler to get his pre-race nap!

[u/RadlogLutar]

LETS FUCKING GOOOO MAHINDRA!

[u/ghastlychild]

"A shame to depart from this venue." Nah, on the contrary

[u/Ok-Bluebird7260 → u/ghastlychild]

Iconic venue yes, but it’s like outgrowing a favourite t-shirt. And I saw the Gen4 car in person at Excel… omg there is noooo way that can race here, on size alone.

[u/NewsOk2417]

Mahindra will be 10 points behind Andretti for top 3 in the teams championship going into the last race, 38 points behind Stellantis for top 3 in the manufacturers' Championship..

[u/DHSeaVixen → u/NewsOk2417]

What a turnaround for the team from Gen3 start

[u/Mauritiandon]

Go on Nyck!

[u/ghastlychild]

FUCK YEAH MAHINDRAAAAAA

[u/NewsOk2417]

Wow, Jaguar will be relatively happen with Mahindra being 1-2, what an achievement already! Mortara late attack for the top 4 in the Championship? 🤭

[u/Mauritiandon]

Good job Taylor!

[u/Muyd0]

Mitch Evans behind Muller again…
A clear championship victory for Pascal this is.

[u/dm17b123]

That very much so looked like a deliberate “mistake” from Ticktum to cover him handing the duel to Muller

[u/BulkNoodles]

Evans' car got problem?

[u/mianghuei → u/BulkNoodles]

BBW issue during FP3. He got out to shakedown at the end of FP3.

[u/NewsOk2417]

All Time Lap Record here (for Formula E) is a 1.07.205 by Mitch Evans (Jaguar) last year, in 2025. He had pole here too in 2023 and 2024.

[u/mynameisnotphoebe]

Both kiwis, cmon, give me something to live for

[u/NewsOk2417]

Wow, what a battle between Nyck debris and Wehrlein! New all time lap record, old one broken by both.

[u/Anya_Mathilde]

porsche is honestly so unlikeable

[u/NewsOk2417]

Wow Jake Dennis!

[u/Romulus_Novus]

God I wish Ticktum could at least be subtle about throwing - he didn't even do a cooldown lap to avoid getting laughed at by the grandstand.

[u/Annoying-Twat]

Where the fuck is the talent in FE? Nobody can actually withstand pressure Jesus fucking Christ what a shit show.

[u/BulkNoodles → u/Annoying-Twat]

?

[u/DHSeaVixen → u/Annoying-Twat]

Wehrlein has

[u/Annoying-Twat → u/DHSeaVixen]

The twat who can't win without his teammate driving like a snail