Porsche urged to 'focus on ourselves' as Formula E title defence ramps up

Porsche Formula E team principal Florian Modlinger has urged his outfit to "focus on ourselves" as its pursuit of defending the teams' and manufacturers' titles ramps up.

With six rounds down and 11 races remaining following the recent inaugural Madrid E-Prix, the Weissach-based team is very much in contention to secure four, potentially even five, championships in the space of two seasons.

It entered the current campaign as the reigning teams' and manufacturers' champion and currently leads both standings.

Porsche's Season 10 world champion Pascal Wehrlein also sits at the top of the drivers' title, putting the team in contention for a first-ever clean sweep since the manufacturers' trophy was introduced.

Ahead of the Berlin double-header at the start of next month, the factory Porsche outfit holds a four-point lead over the factory Jaguar squad in the teams' standings, while the German manufacturer overall has just a one-point margin over the Big Cat.

As for Wehrlein, he extended his advantage to 11 points over Mahindra's Edoardo Mortara in the Spanish capital, although Jaguar drivers Antonio Felix da Costa and Mitch Evans are in hot pursuit.

Jaguar are very much the team in form, having outscored Porsche by 50 points across just the last two races. In the final year of Gen3, it is shaping up to be another Porsche-versus-Jaguar title fight classic, but Modlinger is not ruling out the others.

"At the moment, when you look at the standings, it looks like we had strong results, and Jaguar had strong results," Modlinger told RacingNews365 in Madrid.

"But when you look at each individual racetrack, some cars are stronger depending on the track characteristics. We had Cassidy on pole [here]. 

"I do not underestimate any competitor in the pit lane. We need to focus on ourselves, deliver, and see who we are actually fighting on each dedicated racetrack. Hopefully, our competitors change a bit so that we can score more points than the others. 

"But at the moment, it looks like in the teams’ and manufacturers’ standings, the main competitors are Jaguar, though the others will also come back strong."