Dan Ticktum started from pole position in the Monaco E-Prix Round 9 and led the field through Turn 1, but the race ended with a bitter twist after a late incident with Antonio Felix da Costa brought a post-race penalty that stripped him of third place. The 10-second time penalty pushed Ticktum out of the podium places and handed the final spot to Pepe Marti, who claimed a career-best finish and became the first Spaniard to take Formula E silverware.
Ticktum had looked set to salvage a result after dropping out of the lead battle, even coming back from the PIT BOOST stops in fourth place and later appearing to have third in his grasp. But the contact with da Costa changed everything once the stewards had their say, leaving him to walk away from a race that began with promise and ended with frustration. For Monaco, where track position matters and mistakes are punished fast, that swing decided whether Ticktum left with a podium or nothing at all.
The winner was Nyck de Vries, who produced a controlled drive for Mahindra Racing to take victory after making his PIT BOOST stop on Lap 16 and then passing Antonio Felix da Costa on Lap 20 to seize the lead. The Dutch driver won by three seconds and collected his fifth ABB Formula E World Championship race victory, his first since Berlin in 2022, giving Mahindra a maiden win and its first in the GEN3 era. Mitch Evans finished second for Jaguar Racing, and the result moved him to the top of the Drivers’ World Championship with a 15-point buffer.
Ticktum’s own weekend had already started with a statement, and a report on his pole lap in Monte Carlo had underlined how sharply he had adapted to the circuit. But in Formula E, a front-row start is only the beginning, and the final classification can turn on a single touch, a steward’s review and a penalty that arrives after the drivers have crossed the line.
The immediate focus now shifts to Round 10 of the 2025/26 campaign and the rest of the Monaco E-Prix double-header, where de Vries will try to turn one breakthrough into a run, Evans will try to protect a championship lead that suddenly belongs to him, and Ticktum will be left to wonder how a race he controlled early slipped away at the end.
