Jaguar Signs Vandoorne for Next Season in Formula E

Jaguar has put it on the record that Stoffel Vandoorne is to be their driver in next season’s Formula E championship, where he will race the number 5 car. The Belgian was with Peugeot in the World Endurance Championship for the year, putting 6 points on the board in 6 rounds from behind the wheel of the number 93, and left that programme with two races still to run.

Vandoorne knows the series as well as any of the other men on the grid. After the 2022 title with Mercedes he moved to DS Penske for 2023 and 2024, then to Maserati MSG, where he won in Tokyo before losing his seat. Jaguar is his fifth team in the championship, and he has spent this season as its reserve and development driver, working on the Gen4 car the team will race next year. That year in the background is what he pointed to himself, saying it had shown him first hand what the team is building towards.

In Formula 1 he was at McLaren from 2016 to 2018, during the worst of the Honda alliance, and put in a best result of seventh. For drivers of his vintage Formula E is where one either puts a career back together or brings it to a close; Vandoorne has made good on the former already, and Jaguar arrives fresh from winning the teams’ title.