Porsche museum adds Pascal Wehrlein's world championship-winning 99X Electric
The Formula E car Pascal Wehrlein drove to a second Drivers' Championship is now on display at the Porsche Museum after its final journey from Weissach.
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What Happened
Porsche has placed Pascal Wehrlein's world championship-winning 99X Electric in its museum collection. The exhibit is Wehrlein's original car from the recently completed 2025/2026 season, in which the factory driver secured the Drivers' Championship for a second time in London on 16 August. He remains the only German single-seater World Champion since Nico Rosberg's 2016 Formula 1 title with Mercedes-AMG, and he now shares a record with Frenchman Jean-Éric Vergne as the only drivers to have won the Formula E Drivers' Championship twice. Three weeks before London, at the penultimate race weekend in Tokyo, Porsche had won the Manufacturers' Championship for the second time.
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For what is expected to be its final journey, Wehrlein's 99X was taken by trailer to the Porsche Museum, with final preparations carried out in the motorsport facilities at the Porsche Development Centre in Weissach. A Cayenne Turbo Electric then towed the racing car to Zuffenhausen, a pairing that symbolised technology transfer from the racetrack to the road. Technology from the 99X also features in the latest all-electric Porsche model, including direct oil cooling for the rear electric motor, and both vehicles can recover energy under braking with up to 600 kW of power.
In the museum the 99X wears the historic colours it ran at the season finale, with a design drawing on the liveries of several successful Porsche racing cars from the 1980s. It pays tribute to Porsche's 75-year motorsport history, which began in 1951 when the Porsche 356 SL took a class win at Le Mans. The Porsche Museum is marking the anniversary with the special exhibition "Raceborn – 75 Years of Porsche Motorsport", which runs until 17 January 2027.
- World Championship titles: 6
- Race wins: 23
- Pole positions: 22
- Customer teams: Andretti Formula E and CUPRA KIRO
- Most drivers' titles: Pascal Wehrlein (2)
- Most pole positions: Pascal Wehrlein (10)
- Drive power: 300 kW (408 PS) in normal operation; 350 kW (476 PS) in Attack Mode and qualifying duels
- Drivetrain: rear-wheel drive in normal operation; all-wheel drive for Attack Mode, qualifying duels and race starts
- Acceleration: 0–100 km/h in approx. 2.0 s; weight 862 kg including driver; 5016 mm long, 1700 mm wide, 1023 mm high
- Energy recovery: up to 600 kW recuperation power, with approx. 50 per cent of the drive energy per race coming from brake energy recovery
- Brakes: up to 250 kW of electric braking power on the front axle and up to 350 kW on the rear, 258 mm front brake discs, additional front-axle friction braking via a brake-by-wire system, and rear friction brakes active only in an emergency
- Battery and charging: 38.5 kWh usable lithium-ion battery weighing 285 kg as a supplied single-spec component; CCS system designed for ultra-fast charging at up to 600 kW
“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.”
Previously from Porsche
Porsche has previously added cars from its racing programmes to its company collection. A final 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport wearing a Porsche Museum livery finished fourth in the NLS six-hour race at the Nürburgring and then joined Porsche's company collection.
Background drawn from MotorClaw's earlier coverage of Porsche's official releases.
Why this matters
The 99X Electric is the car behind Porsche's first Formula E world titles, so its move into the museum marks the end of that chapter. Porsche credits the programme with advances that reached its road cars, including direct oil cooling for the rear electric motor and energy recovery under braking of up to 600 kW, which is why the project matters to buyers of the brand's electric models as well as to racing fans.
Terms in This Story
- Formula E
- An international racing series for all-electric single-seater cars.
- GEN3
- The third generation of car built to Formula E's technical rules.
- Attack Mode
- A temporary increase in power available to a driver during a Formula E race under the series' rules.
- Recuperation
- Recovering energy that would otherwise be lost under braking and feeding it back to the battery.
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