Pascal Wehrlein

Wehrlein finished his rookie season 22nd in the championship.

Pascal Wehrlein (born 18 October 1994) is a German and Mauritian racing driver currently competing in Formula E for Porsche.

He previously raced in Formula One for the Sauber and Manor teams.

Holding dual nationality of Germany and Mauritius, he raced under the German flag in Formula One.

Wehrlein began karting in 2003 and raced only in his native Germany in his early career.

He worked his way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KF2 category by 2009, when he finished on fifth position in ADAC Kart Masters.

2010 saw his debut in the ADAC Formel Masters championship with ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (also known as Mücke Motorsport).

Wehrlein finished sixth in the championship with a win at Sachsenring and three other podiums.

He remained in the series with the team for the next year.

Wehrlein scored seven wins at Oschersleben, Sachsenring, Zolder, Nürburgring and Lausitz on his way to the championship title.

He scored his first points with two 10th place finishes at the second and third round in Brands Hatch and Spielberg respectively.

Wehrlein qualified a season best fifth at Norisring but had to retire from the race with rear axle problems after making contact with the wall.

Round seven at Nürburgring saw him achieve his first fastest lap and another 10th place finish in a race heavily affected by a sudden downpour of rain on the formation lap.

In 2012, Wehrlein stepped up to the Formula 3 Euro Series, continuing with Mücke Motorsport.

He finished 2nd in the championship to Daniel Juncadella.

In 2013, Wehrlein became the youngest driver to start a DTM race at the age of 18, in 2014, he became the youngest driver to take pole position and a race win at the age of 19, and the following year, he was the youngest to win the title, at the age of 20.

Wehrlein made his Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) debut with the Mercedes-Benz team Mücke Motorsport in 2013, becoming the youngest driver in DTM history at the age of 18.

In a career spanning three seasons Wehrlein managed to be one of the leading drivers in the field despite his youthful age.

In 2014, he switched teams to HWA where he became the youngest driver in the series history to claim pole position and win a race on route to 8th in the championship with 46 points collected.

Besides his stand out victory at Lausitz, Wehrlein's second best result of the season was a fifth-place finish at Norisring.

He had previously raced in DTM, winning the title with the Mercedes-Benz team HWA AG in 2015.

In 2015, DTM returned to running two races per race weekend, resulting in 18 rounds in the 2015 championship.

Due to the inconsistency of most teams and drivers, Wehrlein won the title easily, having scored in all rounds except for three.

He achieved 5 podiums, one fastest lap and two wins.

He is the first driver to win the championship having not claimed a pole position throughout his championship season while also being the youngest ever DTM champion.

In February 2016 he began driving full-time in Formula One for Manor, scoring his first and the team's only championship point at the Austrian Grand Prix.

During the season, he regularly outperformed his lesser rated team mate Rio Haryanto, until Haryanto was replaced mid-season by Esteban Ocon.

He qualified eighth for his debut race at the season opener in Hockenheim and led the race for 16 laps after an early safety car period, but dropped back to the midfield after his mandatory pit stop, finishing his first DTM race just outside the points in 11th.

Manor folded in early 2017 and Wehrlein moved to Sauber.

Before the season began, he broke three thoracic vertebrae in an accident at the Race of Champions, which left him unable to compete in the first two races of the season.

Despite scoring all of Sauber's points that year, he was not retained for the 2018 season, his seat going to Ferrari Driver Academy member Charles Leclerc instead.

In 2018, Wehrlein returned to DTM with Mercedes while also acting as their reserve driver in Formula One, but parted ways with the German manufacturer at the end of the year.

Wehrlein made the switch to Formula E ahead of the 2018-19 season, joining Mahindra Racing.

On 7 February 2018, it was announced that Wehrlein would return to DTM with Mercedes-AMG's HWA Team after Mercedes were unable to find him a seat in Formula One.

During the 2018 DTM season, Wehrlein achieved one podium and finished the championship in 8th.

On 14 September 2018, it was announced that after six seasons together, Wehrlein and Mercedes would part ways by the end of the 2018 season.

He then worked as a development driver for Ferrari in 2019 and 2020.

He left the team midway through the 2019-20 season, having signed a long-term deal to race for Porsche from the 2020-21 season onwards.

Wehrlein was born in Sigmaringen to a German father and Mauritian mother.

His father Richard Wehrlein, who entered German boxing championships, owns a CNC machining company in Ostrach.