The Sunshine State was hit by changeable conditions ahead of Round 3 of 2025/26, and the wet weather extracted every ounce of talent and concentration from the 20-car Formula E field over a testing 41-lap race.
Jaguar's Evans headed into the race pointless so far this season but with the opportunity from ninth on the grid to put that right.
The first half of the race proved to be super tricky for the pack, with polesitter Mueller leading away after a Safety Car start - though Mahindra's rookie Felipe Drugovich made use of an instant all-wheel drive, 50kW ATTACK MODE activation to climb into P1 in the wet early on.
Mueller found himself back out front after the first round of ATTACK MODE and was able to take advantage of a mishap - as the rain fell harder - between Drugovich and Jaguar TCS Racing's Antonio Felix da Costa behind that took the pair out of race-winning contention.
Amid all that, Evans spied his chance to make progress - clambering through from the back end of the top 10 to the podium positions before a perfect switchback move on Lap 27 saw him by Mueller - the German falling for the dummy move.
From there, the New Zealander was able to measure a lead to those behind and steer through the second round of ATTACK MODE activations to a commanding 3.1-second lead come the chequered flag for a record 15th Formula E race win with Evans also smashing the 1,000-point mark in the series.
Mueller followed in second, with Pascal Wehrlein - up from 11th at the race start - taking the final spot on the podium; another strong showing for Porsche power.
Fourth is a career best finish for Joel Eriksson (Envision Racing) with Nyck de Vries (Mahindra Racing) and Edo Mortara in the sister Mahindra rounding out the top six. Reigning champion Oliver Rowland (Nissan) could manage only 12th.
Despite a non-score with 16th, Mexico City winner Nick Cassidy (Citroen Racing) still leads the Drivers' running, 40 points to Wehrlein's 38. Porsche stretch their legs in the Teams' and the Manufacturers' points.
We head to Jeddah in two weeks for a PIT BOOST enthused double-header, with Round 4 and 5 on 13 and 14 February 2026.
As it happened...
With wet weather about in Miami and no wet track-time so far, the race got underway behind the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT Safety Car.
The pack formed up after five laps under caution for a standing start, with the leaders scrabbling through Turn 1.
Mueller led away with Drugovich immediately jumping for the first of his two 50kW, all-wheel drive ATTACK MODE boosts and back into P1 just a few corners later in tricky, damp conditions.
Mueller and de Vries followed suit with ATTACK a lap later and Eriksson and Wehrlein on Lap 8. The former pair hit the front on Lap 9 with their ATTACK MODE spells overlapping Drugovich's.
The lead changed hands again on Lap 11, with Andretti's Brazilian driver slicing by de Vries' Mahindra for P2 with Porsche's Nico Mueller still out-front. A couple of laps later and Drugovich hit P1, moving by Mueller through Sector 1.
Conditions were super tough and slick, with grip hard to come by. Da Costa was next of the leaders to jump for ATTACK - and quickly set about moving his Jaguar into the top three on Lap 17 in all-wheel drive.
Second became first out of the final turn for the Portuguese with a minute of his first ATTACK MODE remaining.
Evans followed his teammate's lead and took his first dose of ATTACK MODE to clamber into third from the back end of the top 10 - all-wheel drive proving extremely valuable with the conditions still tricky.
Da Costa narrowly led Mueller, Evans, Drugovich, de Vries, Wehrlein, Eriksson, Mortara, Marti and Maloney on Lap 24.
At the Hairpin, Mueller moved back into the lead of the race and held track position through Turn 1 of the next lap to keep da Costa at bay as the Portuguese battled his teammate for second. Evans managed to sweep around the outside of Turn 1 on Lap 26 to take P2 and set about Mueller.
That wouldn't last, though as Drugovich clipped and spun da Costa as the rain began to fall more heavily - tumbling the Portuguese down to sixth and Drugovich into the pits for repairs and entirely out of contention.
At the end of Lap 27, Evans then sold Mueller the dummy to steal the race lead through the final couple of corners - some move - with de Vries now sitting third.
Evans had pulled a 1.5 second lead come lap 30 over Mueller and de Vries. The whole pack were yet to take their second ATTACK MODE activation, though, so all was liable to change.
Wehrlein was the first of the top 10 to leap through the activation loop for his second ATTACK. Four minutes of that 50kW, all-wheel drive surge. Mueller countered on lap 34 to cover him off as Wehrlein took P3 with Mueller moving into second as leader Evans then jumped for ATTACK; sprint finish incoming.
Evans had the overlap on ATTACK and made it count - extending his lead to 2.5 seconds with two laps left. He and Mueller had dropped Wehrlein by six seconds and it looked like being a perfectly measured drive from the Kiwi.
Indeed he held fast to head home Mueller and Wehrlein at the flag.
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