How an ex-F1 star "erased" his past

After restoring his reputation with a virtually faultless charge to a maiden category title last year, Jean-Eric Vergne prevailed again to score even more high-profile success in what at times was one of motorsport's most chaotic championships.

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Motorsport careers are filled with ups and downs. Redemption, therefore, can be just one chapter in a story.

This time one year ago, the redemption chapter in one driver's tale was completed. Jean-Eric Vergne won the 2017/18 ABB FIA Formula E drivers' title for the Techeetah team, which was at that point the plucky independent underdog, taking on and beating the mighty manufacturers.

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Author Alex Kalinauckas

Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.