Citroën announced last week that will join Formula E in Season 12, taking over from Maserati’s entry in the all-electric championship.
Maserati, also an owned brand of Stellantis, made its Formula E debut in 2023 but has decided to leave the championship after just three seasons following a host of operational issues.
Despite limited experience in single-seater racing, Citroën has a storied history in motorsport, especially the World Rally Championship (WRC), Dakar Rally and the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC). Its new Formula E entry will mark a return to world championship racing as a manufacturer for the first time since it quit the WRC in 2019.
Citroën is expected to continue working with MSG, which ran Maserati’s Formula E team.
Alongside teams like Porsche, Nissan, Mahindra and Jaguar, Citroén will also be competing against sister Stellantis brand DS Automobiles.
Former Formula E champion Jean-Eric Vergne and ex-Jaguar Formula E driver Nick Cassidy have been named as the team’s drivers.
Jean-Éric Vergne makes the move from DS PENSKE after an eight-season affiliation with the DS brand, with which he sealed his second Formula E Drivers’ title to become the only two-time and consecutive champion in the series’ history. JEV’s record speaks for itself as one of the OG drivers from Formula E’s very first season.
The 35-year-old Frenchman from Pontoise is second in the all-time Formula E entry list, has the most consecutive starts – all 144 of those entries – and is sixth in the all-time wins table.
Vergne dovetails Formula E with a seat in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Peugeot, and he also drove for Toro Rosso in Formula 1 prior to his decade-plus in Formula E.
Nick Cassidy joins the fold alongside Vergne, with the New Zealander also among the most successful drivers in the paddock with 10 wins and 20 podiums to his name. He was runner-up in the Drivers’ World Championship in 2022/23 and third in 2023/24 after two close-run shots at top spot.
The upcoming Season 12 will be the last one under the current Gen 3 Evo regulations before the all-new Gen 4 cars are introduced for the 2026-27 season.
All the teams will shake down their Season 12 race cars for the first time at the Valencia pre-season test on October 27-30. The season will then kick off with the Sao Paulo E-Prix on December 6, 2025.