The NEOM McLaren Formula E Team today announces the departure of Jake Hughes, concluding the 2023/24 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

Jake made his competitive debut in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in 2023 with the team. Since then, he has scored 96 points, 4 pole positions and a P2 podium finish at the 2024 Shanghai E-Prix.

In his first race in Formula E, the 2023 Mexico City E-Prix, Jake qualified P3, finishing the race in P5. He then went on to secure the team’s first pole position at only his third race weekend in Diriyah, before clinching a second pole position at the 2023 Monaco E Prix. In 2024, Jake secured two more pole positions and achieved a career best P2 finish, his first podium in the championship.

Jake has been crucial to the team’s success, going back as far as 2020, in which he started out as Reserve and Development Driver for the Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team – the team that laid the foundations of what is the NEOM McLaren Formula E Team today.

Jake Hughes said:

“Leaving the NEOM McLaren Formula E Team will feel very strange for me in the coming weeks, based on the fact this team has been my home for the last four and a half years. I have a lot of thanks to give to so many different people within the team for what they have given me, and how they have prepared me and allowed me to grow into the racing driver I am today.

“Everything I am in Formula E is down to this team, and for that I am extremely grateful. I wish the team all the best, and I have no doubt that we’ll have some good times racing on track against each other in the future.”

Ian James, Managing Director, NEOM McLaren Electric Racing and Team Principal, NEOM McLaren Formula E Team, said:

“Jake has made a significant contribution to this team over the years, both on and off the track, and we are incredibly grateful for his input and dedication throughout.

“During this time, he has flourished into a proven talent in Formula E; particular highlights being his four pole positions – of which one came in only his third ever event in Formula E – and his P2 finish in Shanghai this year.

"On a personal note, I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Jake. Alongside his natural talent as a driver, he is a consummate professional and yet has an easy sense of humour which has endeared him to all in the Formula E paddock.”

On behalf of all of us at the NEOM McLaren Formula E Team: thank you, Jake.