After placing second in the final race of the season in Seoul, the Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne (Mercedes) was declared the 2022 Formula E world champion on Sunday.
Vandoorne, a 30-year-old former Formula 1 driver, helped Mercedes win the world constructors championship for the second consecutive year. But the German function Object() { [native code] } will give up the sport the following season.
The final race of the championship was won by the Swiss driver Edoardo Mortara (Venturi), who finished third overall behind Vandoorne and the New Zealander Mitch Evans (Jaguar), the only other driver to have challenged the title of Belgian pilot before this final lap.
"The best sensation is this one. The team put in a tremendous amount of effort, and it was a very beautiful season. All season long, Edoardo and Mitch have been pushing me, but everything has hinged on regularity. They have more victories than I have, but I have more podium finishes ", declared the Belgian pilot.
Even though he has only won one race this season, in Monaco, Vandoorne has proven to be quite consistent, managing to score points in 15 of the 16 races and placing seventh seven times.
It replaces his Mercedes teammate Nyck de Vries on the championship standings after he was forced to leave Sunday.
The monoplanes "Gen2" will compete in the twentieth edition of this championship against the "Gen3" the following year. They will be more powerful, lighter, and have more autonomy than the current monoplanes.
However, Mercedes decided to leave the sport at the end of this season and sold its team to McLaren, another F1 participant.
Maserati, on the other hand, has announced that it would join other well-known brands like Porsche, Jaguar, Nissan, and DS in Formula E for the upcoming season (Groupe PSA).
Disputée sur des circuits urbains, la Formule E se veut la suite de la F1, mais en faisant rouler des monoplaces entièrement électriques rather than those of Formula 1 using hybrid thermal engines.
The two-time Formula E world champion from France, Jean-Eric Vergne, finishes fourth in the standings this year and third among constructors, behind Mercedes and Venturi.
Born in Courtrai, Stoffel Vandoorne has been racing in Formula E since 2019 and finished second in the championship in 2020.
In 2015, he won the category GP2 (now Formula 2) championship. He then joined the Formula 1 McLaren team. However, she was aware of a gap at the time, and Vandoorne was only able to finish 16th twice in the championship in 2017 and 2018.