Monaco E-Prix winner Sebastien Buemi surpasses Mitch Evans and Lucas Di Grassi to set record for most career Formula E victories

Sebastien Buemi showed on Day 2 of the Monaco E-Prix double header that he is the real king of Circuit de Monaco when he registered his third win in the city on Sunday. The Envision Racing driver was very happy to finally see a change in his number of career wins after his last win 78 races earlier. He is now the only Formula E driver with the most career wins, 14 in total. He was earlier tied with Lucas Di Grassi and Mitch Evans at 13 career wins in Formula E.

Sebastien Buemi on his much-awaited win in MonacoSebastien Buemi battled slippery conditions to win the race on the Riviera as the Swiss driver led Nissan's Oliver Rowland and Jaguar TCS Racing's Nick Cassidy to the podium.

“I thought I would never win again at some points, so you know you need a bit of luck, you need the right timing, you need the right car, a good team, and today everything just came together, so I’m so happy. I’m actually speechless because you know it’s been a long time,” said Buemi, while feeling very relieved after taking a win he had hardly expected after so long.

Buemi was Formula E's Season 2 champion and had won his last race in New York in 2019. On Sunday, he took full advantage in picking up the pieces from a Rowland lunge at the chicane on Lap 21 and gained a lead in the race.

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Opening up about the Round 7 race, Buemi said, “It was obviously quite tricky at the beginning with the fight with António [Félix da Costa] and Max [Guenther], but in the end the timing of the Attack Mode was good, I was able to make a gap and I was safe when Oli [Rowland] took his second one. I was able to read where the track was drying up, especially in Turns 3 and 4, there was lots of lap time to be gained, but you needed the confidence and today I had it. I thought that my number of wins would never change but it did today, so I’m very proud.”

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His team Envision Racing had seen no win since Nick Cassidy lifted the trophy in 2023 while driving for Envision Racing. He drives for Jaguar now and took the third spot on the podium in the Round 7 race. Also, Envision Racing was at the bottom of the FIA Teams' World Championship heading into Monaco, but Buemi's win sees the squad lift themselves into ninth spot.