Nico Müller waited 69 races for his first Formula E victory. He got it in Berlin, driving for the factory Porsche team, on the same weekend the manufacturer marked 75 years of motorsport competition. Müller won round 7 of season 12 by nearly five seconds over Nick Cassidy, with Oliver Roland taking third. The result moved Roland into championship contention, and Eduardo Mortara, despite not finishing on the podium, moved to the top of the drivers standings by four points through consistent point-scoring across the season. The race was shaped by attack mode strategy, a puncture that ended one frontrunner's race early, and an overcut by Roland that proved decisive in the second half.
Formula E season 12 has produced a championship battle defined by consistency rather than dominance. Mortara leads without a win on his record this year, which reflects how closely matched the field has been from round to round. The Gen3 regulations have brought performance closer together, putting more weight on energy management and the timing of attack mode activations. In Berlin, teams had only one attack mode activation available per car, meaning when each driver used their boost, and how much energy remained afterward, became the two questions that decided finishing positions. Attack mode delivers a power boost for a fixed duration when a driver passes through a designated activation zone, at the cost of taking a wider, slower line through a corner to reach it.
The race highlights show how quickly positions changed once the pit window opened. Cassidy had moved to the front early and held the lead until Roland's overcut brought him out ahead after a well-timed stop. Cassidy's attack mode ran dry before Roland's, limiting his ability to defend in the closing laps. Müller activated at a point where he could build and maintain a gap before the field around him had burned through their own boost. Jake Dennis had problems triggering attack mode, successfully activating it only twice from three available attempts, which removed him from contention for a stronger result. After seven rounds, the championship remains closely contested, with multiple drivers still mathematically within reach of the title.
Bottom line: A first win at the 69th attempt carries its own weight. That it landed in front of a German crowd, for Porsche, on an anniversary weekend, gives it a character that the highlights alone don't quite capture. The championship is genuinely undecided heading into the second half of the season.