Edoardo Mortara delivered his one of his strongest Formula E results with a hard-fought second place at the 2026 Mexico City E-Prix, surviving intense late-race pressure in a landmark event for the championship.
Mortara ran at the front for much of the race as energy conservation and Attack Mode timing proved decisive around the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. However, late-race technical issues ultimately prevented the Swiss-Italian driver from mounting a decisive challenge for victory.
When asked about how his Formula E Mexico City E-Prix went, Mortara said, “Clean race, I mean they’re always very very stressful, especially towards the end because you are trying to all position, especially if you are at the front.”
“It’s a bit unfortunate because the last 10-15 laps we started to suffer from some problems, let’s say and I wasn’t able to fully keep with Nick’s [Cassidy] rhythm and unfortunately at some point like he managed actually to create a gap.”
Despite having Attack Mode available late on, Mortara admitted the performance deficit meant an overtake was never truly on the cards.
“And that’s the reason why in the end, although I had the Attack Mode, I could not make an attack and overtake him,” he explained. “But in all fairness, I’m very happy with the with second place.”
Energy management proved critical in the final laps, with Mortara acutely aware of the threat from behind, particularly from Jake Dennis.
“I was struggling with energy the last like two three laps and I knew that that Jake [Dennis] only were coming with more energy,” he said. “So in the end very happy with today’s results.”
Strong results despite technical issue with De Vries
The result came despite moments of concern earlier in the race, including the retirement of his team-mate with a technical issue, which raised questions over potential reliability problems.
“It’s clearly never nice to see your teammate stopping, especially with a technical problem,” Mortara said. “They told me that basically he had a red car, so at that point you’re kind of hoping that it’s not going to happen to you, especially because at that point I was I think running first or second. But yeah, in the end everything worked out pretty good.”
Mortara also revealed that his race almost failed to begin at all after encountering a technical glitch moments before the start.
“I have also to mention that we were actually lucky to do the race because just prior to going to do the start formation lap, I had also a glitch with my break-by-wire, so in the end I guess that I was lucky today.”
