Across the decade since Formula E was founded, no fewer than nine drivers have claimed the title, serving to highlight how competitive and unpredictable the all-electric championship has been during its first 10 years.
Of those nine champions, seven had either raced in Formula 1 previously or would go on to compete in the championship after their title win, underlining the quality of drivers who have raced in Formula E.
Here, we speak to those nine about their successes, the highs and lows of each title-winning campaign, and what it means to have tasted outright glory in Formula E.
NELSON PIQUET JR
2014-15 champion
The inaugural season of Formula E went the way of Piquet via two wins and a further three podiums across the 11 races.
The Brazilian’s crown came after a nervous double-header finale at London’s Battersea Park, in which he only just pipped Sebastien Buemi to the crown.
Piquet’s title success had been against the odds – he’d only committed to the championship two weeks before the first round in Beijing after facing “a lot of political pushbacks” due to his involvement in the F1 crash scandal of 2008, while there was no guarantee that the China Racing Team would even see out the campaign.
“Initially the team didn’t have the budget to finish the season,” says Piquet. “We started the championship that way and things started to go well and the only reason we managed to finish the season was because Martin Leach with NEXTEV, they bought a percentage of the team and we had the money.
“A lot of the people that were around the team didn’t get paid until
