The Official Pre-Season Test at Valencia’s Circuit Ricardo Tormo was the first and only chance for the grid to run on track together ahead of the season-opener of the 2025/26 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in São Paulo on 6 December.

With 5,474 laps completed across the field, Edoardo Mortara (Mahindra Racing) set the fastest time of the week in the final session of 1:21.493, with reigning ABB FIA Formula E World Champion Oliver Rowland (Nissan Formula E Team) close behind with a time of 1:21.498.

Two-thousandths behind Rowland was Taylor Barnard (DS PENSKE), putting in a time of 1:21.500 on the final Thursday afternoon session. Rounding out the top five was Norman Nato (Nissan Formula E Team) and Nyck De Vries (Mahindra Racing) with times of 1:21.502 and 1:21.586 respectively.

Josep María Martí (CUPRA KIRO) and Felipe Drugovich (Andretti Formula E), the two rookie drivers for Season 12, found themselves in the middle of the pack - a strong showing in a field so closely paced.

On Friday, the second iteration of the All-Women’s Test, following a successful debut last season, provided elite women racing drivers the opportunity to develop their skills in the same cars as the official drivers. 

Across the two testing sessions, nine of the women drivers set lap times that were within just tenths of a second in each sector compared to the official drivers after the first day, once again proving how valuable track time is in developing experience and confidence in this machinery.

Chloe Chambers (Mahindra Racing) set the best overall time of 1:22.767s in the second afternoon session, amid the field of 14 elite women drivers. Abbi Pulling (Nissan Formula E Team), who was quickest in the inaugural All Women’s Test last year, was just 0.064s behind Chambers’ time, with Bianca Bustamante (CUPRA KIRO) setting the third fastest time.

Alice Powell (Envision Racing), who missed a large part of the afternoon due to a technical issue on her car, finished fourth, ahead of her teammate Ella Lloyd in fifth. Jamie Chadwick (Jaguar TCS Racing), Tatiana Calderon (Citroën Racing) and Nerea Martí (Andretti Formula E) followed in sixth, seventh and eighth.  Juju Noda (Jaguar TCS Racing), finished ninth in her first Formula E experience, while Marta García (Lola Yamaha ABT) rounded off the top ten.

Edoardo Mortara, No. 48, Mahindra Racing, said: “I'm happy with how the test has gone, it's given us the opportunity to run through different testing programmes, and plenty of data to take away and analyse. The car feels competitive, we have definitely made some improvements, but it's difficult to know what everybody else has done. We are happy and encouraged with the work that we've done and now we look forward to starting the season in Sao Paulo.”

Oliver Rowland, Season 11 Formula E Drivers’ World Champion and No. 1, said: “It’s been a good few days of testing here in Valencia and I felt like we worked our way through the program nicely. We’ve learned a lot from some challenging moments and that can be a good opportunity as we sit down and analyse everything to further improve and keep up our momentum. We’ve made the most out of our time on-track and I’m confident that we’ll be competitive when we arrive in São Paulo for the opener in December.”

Josep María Martí, No. 3, CUPRA KIRO, said: “I'm very happy with how the pre-season test has gone. We started off in a position where everything was new to me, but as the week has gone on we have improved. Being two tenths off the quickest time was a nice way to end the test and it was all good preparation ahead of Brazil.”

Chloe Chambers, No.21, Mahindra Racing, said: “Today overall was a very positive day. I made a lot of improvements from last year in terms of my driving and driving to what’s needed from the car to go fast. We worked a lot on one lap pace, I was having to improve my driving every time and it was definitely a good test overall and I really enjoyed working with the team.”

Abbi Pulling, No.23, Nissan Formula E Team, said: “I’m really pleased with the way the test went, and to set the second-quickest time in both sessions is a strong result. My target was the break into the 1:22s and I’m pleased we did that, along with completing our entire program. One of my targets, after my previous outings in the car, was to improve my technique during race simulation, which I definitely achieved. It’s a physically demanding track, but we made good progress as a team and I hope what we did today will be beneficial for the squad moving forwards. I feel more comfortable in the car every time I drive and it’s been great to be here with the team in Valencia as I continue my development.”

Bianca Bustamante, No.3, CUPRA KIRO, said: “I think we left quite a lot of potential on the table in the morning session. I couldn’t really optimise new tyres and made a mistake here in there so all in all I was just happy to put a lap together. Obviously, there’s still so much room for improvement. I wasn’t able to optimise sector one and I did end up doing on the second run on the older tyres. There’s still much more in there and I think with more running in this car and more laps and working more with the team I will definitely be able to get my pace up there. But all in all so, so happy, the team has done brilliantly preparing me for this test in the sim, giving me onboards during track walk and giving me all the information that I can have to be able to really optimise this test. They have done a brilliant job and a huge thanks to Dan and Pepe who stuck around for this test and gave me as many tips and advice to improve my driving. All in all the team is brilliant and amazing and I had so much fun which is the important bit and had fun with everyone on the team.”