One thousand one hundred and twenty-three laps. That is what Pascal Wehrlein and Nico Müller covered across the seventeen races of the 2025/2026 Formula E season. At 400 euros per lap, the tally came to 449,200 euros. Porsche rounded it up to 500,000.
The figure was announced on 20 August, days after the London finale and Wehrlein’s second drivers’ title. The rounding is habit rather than gesture: Porsche has done the same in previous editions. The mechanism has not changed either. Every racing lap completed by the two works drivers feeds a pot that goes to charity at the end of the year.
Formula E added 25,000 euros of its own through the Better Futures Fund, handed over at the Berlin E-Prix in May. That fund backs charitable organisations and projects in the countries that host championship rounds.
Three recipients
The money is split between three non-profit organisations. Porsche did not publish a breakdown.
- Kinderherzen retten e.V. funds life-saving heart operations in Germany for children from countries where that kind of specialist treatment is unavailable.
- Interplast Germany e.V. gives children in developing and emerging countries access to reconstructive surgery and medical care after severe burns, injuries or congenital malformations.
- The Ferry Porsche Foundation works on social cohesion and equal opportunity for children and young people.
Two cases put faces to the budget lines. Rashid, two years old, lives in Tanzania. A malformation combined with tumorous changes to his hand and forearm restricted his quality of life; reconstructive operations by Interplast Germany saved the arm and improved its function. Amy, in El Salvador, had a septal heart defect corrected at eight months old by doctors at the Freiburg heart clinic. Her development had been impaired until then.
« Porsche wants to give something back to society, » said Michael Steiner, Member of the Executive Board for Research and Development. « That is why, with Racing for Charity, we support seriously ill children worldwide. Our factory team fought in Formula E not only for World Championship titles, but also for the highest possible donation amount. »
Müller described a motivation running alongside the points table. « Racing for Charity was an extra motivation for Pascal and me. Whenever we could not score World Championship points, every lap still counted. We are both fathers and can therefore identify even more with the initiative. We wish the organisations every success in their work. »
From Le Mans to Formula E
The programme started at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2023 and has raised almost three million euros since. The 2025/2026 campaign was the first time it moved to Formula E, which changes the arithmetic: seventeen races instead of a single twenty-four-hour event, so the lap count builds over a full season rather than one weekend.
This was Porsche’s seventh season in the series, an involvement the company justifies by the read-across to its production electric models (French-language article). Alongside the works team, two customer squads ran its technology: Andretti Formula E with the current 99X Electric GEN3 Evo, and Cupra Kiro on the earlier GEN3 package.
Manufacturer charity programmes usually sit in a corporate report and stay there. What makes this one legible to anyone watching the race is the arithmetic itself, visible lap by lap. It sits alongside the broader sustainability commitments the brand has documented in recent years, also covered here in French.
Source: Porsche Newsroom, press release of 20 August 2026.
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