DAMS
DAMS (an abbreviation for Driot Associés Motor Sport , formerly Driot-Arnoux Motorsport ) is a French racing team founded in 1988 by Jean-Paul Driot and former Formula 1 racing driver René Arnoux . The team is based in Le Mans and is currently active in the FIA Formula 2 championship and the FIA Formula E championship .
history
The year after it was founded, the team started in Formula 3000 and stayed there until 2001. DAMS was one of the many French teams that took part in the Elf program for young drivers. In addition to its involvement in Formula 3000, the team tried to enter the Formula 1 World Championship in 1995 with a car developed by Reynard Motorsport , but failed for financial reasons.
From 2006, drivers of the Toyota trainee program took part in the GP2 series in DAMS vehicles. The team has also competed in the FIA Formula E championship since 2014 and in the GP3 series since 2016 .
From 1997 to 2001 DAMS was also active in the sports car sector.
After the death of founder Jean Paul Driot in August 2019, the team management was taken over by his sons Gregory and Olivier.
Formula 3000 / GP2 / Formula 2 series
In Formula 3000, the team won the championship several times: 1990 with Érik Comas , 1992 with Olivier Panis and 1994 with Jean-Christophe Boullion . In the thirteen years from 1989 to 2001, DAMS won the team championship four times, three drivers' titles, achieved 21 victories and 19 pole positions and drove 19 fastest laps in Formula 3000. Together with Super Nova Racing and Arden International, DAMS is one of the most successful teams in this racing series.
In the GP2 series, the successor to Formula 3000, DAMS has been driving since the first season in 2005 and was able to win a race with driver José María López in its debut year. As part of the Toyota trainee program, one sponsored driver has been driving for DAMS since 2006. In 2006 this was Franck Perera and in 2007 Kazuki Nakajima , who was sixth overall and contested the last Formula 1 race of the season in Brazil for Williams F1 . The second driver in 2007 was Nicolas Lapierre . In 2008 DAMS drove with Jérôme D'Ambrosio and Kamui Kobayashi , who was also a test driver for the Toyota Formula 1 team .
In the 2011 season, the future Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean won the GP-2 championship with DAMS.
In 2019 DAMS became team champion in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Nicholas Latifi and Sérgio Sette Câmara . In 2020 the team will start with Daniel Ticktum from Britain and Sean Gelael from Indonesia.
A1 Grand Prix and Formula Renault
In 2003 and 2004 DAMS took part in the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup and won in the second year with José María López . In 2005 the team started in Formula Renault 3.5 .
From 2005 DAMS provided the racing team for several teams in the A1 Grand Prix : A1 Team France ( 2005/2006 to 2008/2009 ), A1 Team Switzerland ( 2005/2006 ), A1 Team Mexico (2005/2006 and 2006/2007 ) and A1 Team South Africa (2006/2007 and 2007/2008 ). With Team France, DAMS was the first winner of this racing series after victories in 13 of 22 races.
In the 2013 and 2014 seasons, DAMS won the drivers' championship in Formula Renault 3.5. Both drivers, Kevin Magnussen and Carlos Sainz jr . subsequently rose to Formula 1.
Sports car racing
In 1997, in partnership with the Panoz team, the company entered the FIA GT championship . After separating from Panoz, DAMS competed in the FIA Sports Car Championship the following year and won four races. The team also competed in the American Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans .
In 2000 and 2001 DAMS worked with General Motors . However, starts in the American Le Mans Series, the FIA Sports Car Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans remained without a countable result.
In 2002 DAMS drove again at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2003 the team wanted to return to the FIA GT championship with two Nissan 350Z ; However, lack of money prevented the further development of the cars. In 2004 DAMS merged with Lamborghini and entered the final laps of the FIA GT Championship with two Murciélago R-GT cars.
FIA Formula E Championship
In 2014 the racing team entered the newly founded FIA Formula E Championship as e.dams . DAMS cooperated with Renault in Formula E , Renault ambassador Alain Prost also became a partner in the team. His son Nicolas Prost and Sébastien Buemi started as drivers . In the debut season, the team managed to secure the championship title after the eleventh of twelve races, and Buemi was also runner-up behind Nelson Piquet junior, just one point behind .
At the end of the season, Renault announced that it would enter the FIA Formula E Championship as the official manufacturer and develop the drive for the team now known as Renault e.dams . The team competed with the same drivers and won the team championship again, Buemi became champion for the first time.
Buemi and Prost also started for Renault e.dams in the third season . The team won the team title for the third time in a row. Buemi won six of the twelve races, but had to admit defeat to Lucas di Grassi in the drivers' championship and was runner-up.
Before the fourth season , the team announced that they had extended the driver contracts with Buemi and Prost for a further two years. The season was the weakest of the team, for the first time neither of the two drivers won a race. At the end of the season they finished fifth in the team ranking with 133 points. At the end of the season, Renault left the team as a drive partner; for the new season, Renault alliance partner Nissan and its motorsport department Nismo will be responsible for designing the drive for the team now known as Nissan e.dams . During the season, Alain Prost sold his team shares to Driot, who now became sole owner of the Formula E team, in view of Renault's exit.
In the 2018/19 season , the team competed again with Buemi, his new teammate became Oliver Rowland . Both drivers were able to achieve three pole positions, and Buemi also won a race and was runner-up. Rowland was tenth in the drivers' championship with two second places as the best results. The team took fourth place in the team ranking with 190 points.
statistics
Individual results in the FIA Formula E Championship
driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | Points | rank |
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FIA Formula E Championship 2014/15 | AT | PUT | PUN | BUE | MIA | LBH | MON | BER | MOS | LON | 232 | 1. | |||||||
Nicolas Prost | 8th | 12 * | 4th | 7th | 2 | 1 | 14th | 6th | 10 | 8th | 7th | 10 | |||||||
Sébastien Buemi | 9 | DNF | 3 | 1 | DNF | 13 | 4th | 1 | 2 ° | 9 ° | 1 | 5 ° | |||||||
FIA Formula E Championship 2015/16 | AT | PUT | PUN | BUE | MEX | LBH | PAR | BER | LON | 270 | 1. | ||||||||
Nicolas Prost | 8th | DNF | 10 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 4th | 4th | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Sébastien Buemi | 9 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 16 * | 3 | 1 | 5 ° | DNF ° | ||||||||
FIA Formula E Championship 2016/17 | HKG | MAR | BUE | MEX | MON | PAR | BER | NYC | MTR | 268 | 1. | ||||||||
Nicolas Prost | 8th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 5 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 8th | 8th | 6th | 6th | DNF | ||||||
Sébastien Buemi | 9 | 1 ° | 1 ° | 1 ° | 13 ° | 1 ° | 1 ° | DSQ ° | 1 ° | DSQ ° | 11 ° | ||||||||
Pierre Gasly | 7th | 4th | |||||||||||||||||
FIA Formula E Championship 2017/18 | HKG | MAR | SAN | MEX | PUN | ROME | PAR | BER | ZUR | NYC | 133 | 5. | |||||||
Nicolas Prost | 8th | 9 | 8th | 13 | 10 | DNF | 15th | 14th | 16 | 14th | DNF | 10 | 11 | ||||||
Sébastien Buemi | 9 | 11 | 10 | 2 ° | 3 ° | 3 ° | DNF ° | 6 ° | 5 ° | 4 ° | 5 ° | 3 ° | 4 ° | ||||||
FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19 | TO YOU | MAR | SAN | MEX | HKG | SAY | ROME | PAR | MCO | BER | BRN | NYC | 190 | 4th | |||||
Oliver Rowland | 22nd | 7th | 15th | DNF | 20 * ° | DNF | 2 | 6th | 12 | 2 | 8th | DNF | 14th | 6th | |||||
Sébastien Buemi | 23 | 6th | 8 ° | DNF ° | 21 * ° | DNF ° | 8 ° | 5 ° | 15 ° | 5 ° | 2 ° | 3 ° | 1 ° | 3 | |||||
FIA Formula E Championship 2019/20 | TO YOU | SAN | MEX | MAR | BER | BER | BER | 167 | 2. | ||||||||||
Oliver Rowland | 22nd | 4th | 5 | 17th | 7th | 9 | 14th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 1 | DNF | |||||||
Sébastien Buemi | 23 | DNF ° | 12 ° | 13 | 3 | 4th | 7th | 2 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 3 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Team history ( memento from November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) www.dams.fr
- ↑ http://www.motorsport-total.com/formelsport/news/2015/10/dams-steig-in-die-gp3-serie-ein-15100102.html
- ↑ a b With Ticktum and Gelael: DAMS is repositioning itself for the F2 season 2020. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Toyota signs Kobayashi as the new third driver motorsport-total.com on November 16, 2007
- ↑ a b Jean-Paul Driot is dead: The motorsport world mourns the DAMS founder. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Norman Fischer: Formula E: Prost and DAMS form e.dams. Motorsport-Total.com, October 24, 2013, accessed February 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Norman Fischer: Official manufacturer: Renault is committed to Formula E. Motorsport-Total.com, July 2, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Season two team names confirmed. (No longer available online.) FIAFormulaE.com, July 29, 2015, archived from the original on August 1, 2015 ; accessed on July 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Tobias Bluhm: Formula E: Renault e.dams extends contracts with Buemi & Prost. e-Formel.de, June 9, 2017, accessed October 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Tobias Bluhm: Formula E: Renault e.dams extends contracts with Buemi & Prost. e-Formel.de, April 27, 2018, accessed on March 2, 2018 .