Lucas di Grassi Announces Racing Retirement
2nd May 2026Formula E World Champion Lucas di Grassi will retire from the all-electric series at the end of the 2025-26 Season, marking an end to his professional racing career.
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The Season Three World Champion has taken 13 victories over the course of his Formula E career, including the inaugural race, the 2014 Beijing ePrix. Di Grassi drove the first 84 Formula E races for the ABT outfit, taking 12 of his 13 race wins for the team, before taking his final victory for ROKiT Venturi at the 2022 London ePrix.
Lucas di Grassi returned to the ABT team following two years away from the outfit, in 2023, before continuing with them as they started their partnership with Lola and Yamaha.
ABT are leaving Formula E, and splitting from Lola-Yamaha, following Season 12, taking their most storied driver with them.
Di Grassi’s first Formula E victory came in the very first race, when Nick Heidfeld and Nico Prost crashed while battling for the lead, entering the final corner. Formula E’s first test driver, wrote himself into the fabric of Formula E, by becoming their first ePrix winner.
After finishing third in 2014-15, di Grassi entered 2015-16 with a chance at the title. He crashed with Sébastien Buemi at the season finale, with both drivers fighting for the fastest lap to take the title. At race’s end, Buemi was the one who took the fastest lap to win the Season Two title.
Season Three saw Lucas di Grassi take the title by over 20 points from Sébastien Buemi, despite the Swiss driver taking six victories, winning every race he finished inside the points. Becoming Formula E’s third champion.
Despite not finishing below second for the final seven races of the season, Lucas di Grassi failed to take the title in Season Four, finishing over 40 points behind eventual champion Jean-Éric Vergne, thanks in part to his terrible start to the season.
Moving into the Gen 2 era, di Grassi’s fortunes dwindled, with the Brazilian taking the third in Season Five, before going winless for the first time in Season Six.
Since his final victory with Venturi in 2021, Lucas di Grassi has struggled in the Gen 3 era. After taking pole in the first Gen 3 race with Mahindra, he only took two podiums, at the first Gen 3 race in Mexico City, and second at the second Miami ePrix at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Posting on X, Lucas di Grassi emphasised his love for Formula E, and his commitment, and engagement with his professional career as a racing driver:
“A very special thank you to Formula E, where I have spent the last fourteen years surrounded by extraordinary people—people who started writing on napkins and created an amazing championship, and whom I now consider family. Formula E is my home, and my home is Formula E.”
Lucas di Grassi is yet to score a point in the 2025-26 season, and currently sits at the bottom of the standings in what will be his final Formula E season.
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