{"id":1152329,"date":"2026-08-16T19:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1152329\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:34:31","slug":"jake-dennis-embarrassing-how-pascal-wehrlein-became-formula-e-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1152329\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Dennis: “Embarrassing” how Pascal Wehrlein became Formula E champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Dennis<\/a> offered a very strong reaction to the 2025-26 Formula E title decider in London, claiming it\u2019s “embarrassing” the way that Pascal Wehrlein<\/a> won the world championship.<\/p>\n

The Porsche driver joined Jean-Eric Vergne as the only two-time Formula E champions<\/a> after the most frantic season finale at the ExCeL, where team orders were a talking point throughout.<\/p>\n

It started on Saturday when Nico Muller backed off in the final qualifying duel to hand pole to team-mate Wehrlein, who subsequently dominated race one from pole.<\/p>\n

That was partly thanks to Muller holding up fellow title rival Mitch Evans<\/a>, meaning Wehrlein overtook both the Jaguar driver and Dennis for the championship lead coming into Sunday.<\/p>\n

But race two was even more dramatic as Evans\u2019 team-mate Antonio Felix da Costa<\/a> deployed a similar tactic as Muller on Wehrlein, who until then was cruising towards his second title.<\/p>\n

It led to the German dropping outside of the points late on which provisionally handed the crown to Dennis, whose hopes suddenly faded after his lap-31 collision with Wehrlein.<\/p>\n

That came after a desperate lunge from the Porsche driver at Turn 16 and as he did it, he hit the rear of Joel Eriksson<\/a> which caused the Envision to spin and hold up both Dennis and Wehrlein.<\/p>\n

It sent both drivers outside of the points and with Evans only finishing fourth, having needed a win for the title, Wehrlein became world champion for the second time in three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything we did today, we executed perfectly,\u201d said Dennis. \u201cWe put ourselves in a position to take the title, we were ahead at points until we weren\u2019t. So, yeah, I think we did everything right.<\/p>\n

\"Jake <\/p>\n

Jake Dennis, Andretti Formula E<\/p>\n

Photo by: Jordan McKean \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cHe took me clean out of the race, it\u2019s as simple as that. I think it’s embarrassing what we’ve seen today from Pascal, Porsche.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be in that position to beat Pascal, clearly ahead and then he just rams me straight into the wall, it’s quite surprising.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut ultimately if they want to win it like that, then they can. That’s the game, that’s what happens when you’re behind going into the final race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can take you straight out and ultimately if they get a penalty, it makes no difference because I’m in the wall. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wehrlein had already predicted on Friday that team orders would play a huge role in the title fight, with team-mates attempting to \u201cmanipulate\u201d the results with dirty maneuvers on rivals.<\/p>\n

He was ultimately proven correctly and Dennis told Motorsport.com: \u201cThe drivers got really dirty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s nothing that FE can do about it, I think it would happen in most sports when there’s so much at stake and you need situations to fall your way.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, Jaguar needed to get Porsche out of the points, I needed to beat Pascal. That was going to happen – he stopped that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth parties today have been guilty of manipulating races. I was just on the innocent side of it, just trying to beat Pascal and not doing anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were going to do that and then we got taken out. He just didn’t turn left in a left-hand corner, so it was inevitable I was going to end up in the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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