"Finishing on a high": Sébastien Buemi reflects on his final Formula E weekend

Sebastien Buemi called time on his illustrious Formula E career (for now) after the 2026 London E-Prix, with his future in the all-electric championship now set to take a different direction.

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08 Oct '26

The 37-year-old Swiss driver has been a mainstay of the Formula E paddock since its inaugural season in 2014, and is one of only four drivers to have raced in every season, alongside Antonio Felix da Costa, Jean-Eric Vergne, and Lucas di Grassi.

He finishes his Formula E career with 160 starts, 14 victories, 36 podiums, and one Drivers’ Championship title, which he won in the 2015/16 season. He also remains in the Formula E history book as the most successful driver at the Monaco E-Prix, with three wins in 2015, 2017, and 2025 - one more than the only two-time victor, Oliver Rowland.

A permanent place within the Paysafe Envision family

Buemi joined Paysafe Envision Formula E (previously Envision Racing) at the start of the 2022/23 season, finishing sixth in the Drivers’ Championship that year, whilst his third-place finish in the London E-Prix season finale helped the British team secure its first and, as of the end of the 2025/26 campaign, only Teams’ Championship.

The following year, Buemi finished 15th in the standings, but again ended the year on a high with a podium in London, his second trip to the rostrum in the 2023/24 season. 2024/25's campaign gave Buemi his long-awaited 14th Formula E victory, after winning the Monaco E-Prix for the third time - solidifying his status as the all-electric 'Mr Monaco'.

This season, however, was one of highs and lows for Buemi, who entered the London finale with 75 championship points and only one podium finish from the season, despite a relatively consistent run of finishes inside the top- ten.

At the London E-Prix double-header, the final race weekend of the 2025/26 season and the last races of the GEN3 era, he impressed in Saturday's race, starting from P10 and using the Full Course Yellow period to his advantage as both Lola Yamaha ABT’s drivers, Zane Maloney and Lucas di Grassi, ended up in the wall. Though he narrowly missed out on a podium, he managed to take home fourth whilst his teammate Joel Eriksson finished 14th.

Reflecting on the race, he said, “I always do the best I can, and then move on, no more special feeling.” He continued, “I’m happy to score a few points. Obviously, Saturday was a crazy race, like it is always here in London.

“I'm lucky with the strategy, we pitted under the Full Course Yellow, but at the same time, I had the ATTACK MODE, so I did lose a bit of hope. It feels like P3 would have been possible with the perfect race, but at the end of the day, I'm quite happy with that result.

“I always have a different mindset. We take it step by step, session by session. In this category, so many things can happen. I'm not too bothered. I just do the best I can and then at the end of the day we count whether we score points or not.”

Sunday’s race was chaotic, to say the least, with much of the attention focused on the three championship protagonists. Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein ultimately came out on top of Andretti’s Jake Dennis and Jaguar TCS Racing’s Mitch Evans, securing his second World Championship title.

Amidst the chaos, Buemi kept his cool. On Lap 13, he activated his four-minute ATTACK MODE, which helped him climb to P6. His teammate Eriksson made contact with the reigning champion on the same lap, forcing him out of the race. Buemi, meanwhile, continued to fight at the front and held on to claim fifth in his final appearance behind-the-wheel of the GEN3 car with the Envision squad.

“I don't think I could have done much better, so I'm happy with that result," he said. "Finishing on a high, quite a few points, 22 points this weekend. So I feel like I've done my job.”

“It's much better than having a DNF or a bad race. I don't think it would have changed much anyway, but at least to finish on the high and having done a good race, scoring nearly 100 points this season. It could have been better, but it's not that bad.”

What the future has in store

Buemi's success behind-the-wheel extends beyond the Formula E paddock, the Swiss driver has won four World Endurance Championship Drivers’ titles, in 2014, 2019, 2022 and 2023, and has claimed four overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022.

With such a prestigious racing CV, there is little doubt that the Swiss driver has a bright future in store - wherever he ends up.

“I guess I'll digest a little bit, the fact that I'm not going to be racing next year," he says. "And then at some point, just really discuss what we can do to get involved with the team and how I can contribute.

“We will do that in the next few weeks and see how we can obviously approach the next season. I'm going to stay in the team as an advisor. I wish I would have been able to continue, but of course there are a lot of things happening with the fact that we have so many races with WEC and it's the way it is.

“I’m wishing the team the very best, I might do a test from time to time, and I'm looking forward to seeing the car on track and hopefully it's going to look good on TV.”