Mitch Evans is leaving Jaguar for Opel after 10 years

After 10 seasons, 132 starts, 38 podiums, and 15 wins, Mitch Evans has decided to leave Jaguar TCS Racing. He is joining the Opel team that will debut next season. Everybody is being nice about it, and the transition seems orderly. It hasn’t been announced yet, but The Race reports that test and development driver Stoffel Vandoorne will take the seat as was apparently the plan when he took that reserve job, the Evans/Opel deal having been in the works for a long time.

This is an early loud noise in a Formula E silly season that might get super, super silly. The Gen4 car is coming next season, which begins at the end of 2026, so any established driver who thinks the grass might be greener somewhere else had better get a move on. Jake Dennis, notably, decided to stay put at Andretti, and in the TWG era, staying in their open-wheel system does seem like a shrewd career move. Mitch Evans would rather roll the dice on a brand new program.