From Racetrack to Museum: Porsche’s Title-Winning 99X Electric Finds a New Home in Stuttgart
Pascal Wehrlein’s championship-winning Formula E car goes on public display at the Porsche Museum, capping a four-year run as the most successful single-seater in Porsche’s history
Porsche has added a genuine piece of motorsport history to its museum collection: the 99X Electric that carried Pascal Wehrlein to his second Formula E Drivers’ title now sits on public display in Stuttgart. After four seasons in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, the car returns home as the most decorated single-seater ever built by Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG and the most successful car of Formula E’s third-generation era, with six championship titles out of a possible ten.
A Season to Remember
The car on display is Wehrlein’s actual title-winning chassis from the just-concluded 2025/2026 season. He clinched the Drivers’ Championship in London on August 16, his second, following an earlier win making him the only German to claim a single-seater world title since Nico Rosberg’s 2016 Formula 1 crown with Mercedes-AMG. That result also puts Wehrlein alongside Frenchman Jean-Éric Vergne as the only two drivers to have won the Formula E title twice. Porsche had already wrapped up its second Manufacturers’ Championship three weeks earlier in Tokyo. The car’s journey to the museum was itself a small piece of theatre: after final prep work at Porsche’s motorsport facility in Weissach, it was towed into Zuffenhausen by a Cayenne Turbo Electric, a deliberate nod to the technology handoff between racetrack and road car. Several 99X-derived innovations, including direct oil cooling for the rear motor, have already made their way into Porsche’s current EV lineup, and both car and race car share the ability to recover up to 600 kW under braking.
Seven Years in the Making
Porsche’s Formula E story began in 2017, when the brand pivoted away from endurance racing, its traditional stronghold, into electric single-seaters, an entirely different engineering discipline. The breakthrough came with Formula E’s Gen3 platform, which brought a lighter battery, front-axle energy recovery, and a significant power boost. The first title arrived via customer team driver Jake Dennis in 2022/2023, before Wehrlein delivered Porsche’s first drivers’ crown the following season off the back of a record seven-win campaign. The Gen3 Evo update, featuring temporary all-wheel drive, then delivered Porsche’s first Manufacturers’ and Teams’ titles in 2024/2025, setting up this year’s double. Thomas Laudenbach, Vice President Porsche Motorsport: “The Porsche 99X Electric is one of the boldest and most advanced cars Porsche has ever built. When the brand announced its entry in 2017, Formula E was still at an early stage. Drivers had to switch to a second car halfway through a race because one battery charge could not cover the full distance. Since then, the series has made major strides; developments that we have accompanied from a technological perspective in Weissach: better battery technology, more energy recovery, more power and 600 kW fast charging under extreme conditions. Porsche sports cars benefited from this as well. With the 99X, we have taken our place as the manufacturer at the top of electric motorsport. On behalf of Porsche Motorsport, I thank everyone involved in the project, as well as all our partners and sponsors. Together, they have written the next chapter in Porsche Motorsport history.”
On Display Through January
The 99X now forms part of “Raceborn – 75 Years of Porsche Motorsport,” a special exhibition running through January 17, 2027, marking the anniversary of Porsche’s first motorsport class win at Le Mans in 1951 with the 356 SL. Fittingly, the car wears the same retro livery it carried at the season finale, a design drawn from Porsche’s successful racers of the 1980s.
