The championship never changed hands and never quite settled either. Wehrlein and Dennis both finished outside the points, and the five points between them on Sunday morning were the five points between them at the flag.

The BBC published Barnard’s account of his family re-mortgaging the house hours before he won the London finale. The ladder he climbed runs to seven figures before a driver reaches a paid seat, and he is not the only one saying so.

DS closed an eleven-season programme within days of the London flag, Nissan’s Norman Nato lost his seat, and Envision had already cleared both of its. Most of what looks like an exodus is one company moving three badges around.

Lucas di Grassi finished neither London race. Sebastien Buemi, the other founding champion leaving on the same afternoon, saw both flags and had an unwilling hand in where the title went.

The multi-year deal makes Disney+ the global streaming home of Formula E from 2026/27, layered on top of the free-to-air partners rather than replacing them. It answers the reach complaint Porsche put on the record, and it landed four days before the GEN3 car retired.

Marcin Budkowski replaces Graeme Lowdon with immediate effect, eleven rounds into a debut season still without a point. The release and the CEO describe the same change two different ways, and the brakes have been overheating all year.