Dutch driver Nyck de Vries received the Formulation E world championship as rivals crashed out of the season’s remaining race in Berlin on Sunday, with Mercedes additionally taking the groups’ title.

De Vries completed eighth in a race on the capital’s outdated Tempelhof airport that was received by Frenchman Norman Nato for Venturi, his first victory within the all-electric sequence.

That left Mercedes driver de Vries on 99 factors, seven away from Venturi’s Swiss racer Eduardo Mortara who retired at the beginning when he smashed into the again of Mitch Evans’s barely transferring Jaguar.

Neither driver was damage and Evans additionally retired on the spot with the race red-flagged.

Different championship contender Jake Dennis, for BMW i Andretti, additionally crashed out after the re-start.

The sequence’ seventh season is the primary given full world championship standing by the governing Worldwide Vehicle Federation (FIA).

Nissan’s Oliver Rowland completed second within the second of two Berlin races with Mercedes Stoffel Vandoorne third.

Mercedes ended with 181 factors to Jaguar’s 177.

“It has been such a tricky season with highs and lows and everybody was type of in the identical boat. All the pieces got here right down to the final race,” stated de Vries, who began thirteenth on the grid.

“I feel we had quite a lot of fortune on our facet at present with every thing that occurred. I am glad that everybody is OK with the incident at the beginning.

“I feel we drove an unimaginable race, we had actually good tempo within the automotive however on the identical time I felt like a goal as effectively…I simply needed to carry it house.”