Dragon Racing

Dragon Racing , until 2009 Luczo Dragon Racing and until 2011 de Ferran Dragon Racing , is an American motorsport team based in Los Angeles . It was founded in 2006 by Jay Penske , son of Roger Penske , and Steven J. Luczo , chairman and CEO of Seagate Technology . The team competes in the FIA Formula E Championship , and until 2013 it also competed in the IndyCar Series .

history

IndyCar Series

In 2007 the team made its debut at the Indianapolis 500 with driver Ryan Briscoe , the car was leased from the Penske team. Briscoe, actually a regular Penske driver in the American Le Mans Series in a Porsche RS Spyder , achieved fifth place.

Scheckter qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 in 2008

In 2008 the team started with Tomas Scheckter as driver in six races of the IndyCar Series , Scheckter's best result was a 21st place. In 2009 , the team contested the first full season in the IndyCar Series, the reigning Indy Lights champion Raphael Matos was signed as the driver. Matos finished the season in 13th place and was named Rookie of the Year .

In 2010 , Matos stayed with the now de Ferran Luczo Dragon Racing team, and a second vehicle was used for Davey Hamilton at the Indy 500 and the Chicagoland Speedway . Before the Indy 500, Luczo's name was deleted from the team name because it was too long. With two fourth places, Matos achieved 15th place overall as the best result.

At the end of the season, Matos was fired and Tony Kanaan was hired as a driver for the 2011 IndyCar Series . However, since the team could not find a sponsor, the team was disbanded in February 2011. In April 2011 Jay Penske announced to reactivate the team under the name Dragon Racing and to compete in five races of the IndyCar Series with Paul Tracy . In addition, the team used two vehicles for Ho-Pin Tung and Scott Speed on the Indy 500 . After an accident during training, Tung dropped out for the race, instead he contested the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma for the team later in the season . Since Speed ​​could not qualify, Patrick Carpentier took over the car on the last day of qualification , but also had an accident, so that Dragon Racing did not compete in the Indy 500.

For 2012 the team announced that it would contest the entire season with two vehicles under the name Lotus-Dragon Racing . Sébastien Bourdais and Katherine Legge were introduced as drivers, while Lotus was supposed to be the engine supplier . After the Lotus engines proved to be non-competitive in the first four races, the team switched to Chevrolet immediately before the Indy 500 and renamed themselves again to Dragon Racing . However, since after the Indy 500, Chevrolet had no capacity to provide engines for both Dragon vehicles, the team became a one-car team. Bordais contested the remaining races on street courses, Legge the oval races and the race in Sonoma . The drivers finished 25th and 26th in the overall ranking.

Spark-Renault SRT_01E of the Dragon team at the Punta del Este ePrix 2014

In 2013 Bourdais stayed with the team, Legge was replaced by Sebastian Saavedra . Bourdais reached three podium positions and finished 12th in the overall standings, Saavedra did not get past 21st place. At the end of the season, the team announced that it would withdraw from the IndyCar Series and concentrate on the FIA ​​Formula E Championship.

FIA Formula E Championship

On September 25, 2013 Dragon Racing was presented as the fourth team in the newly established FIA Formula E Championship. The drivers under contract were Oriol Servià and Jérôme D'Ambrosio . After four races, Servià resigned as a driver and switched to the team's management. He was replaced by Loïc Duval . At the Berlin ePrix , D'Ambrosio achieved the first victory for the racing team. With four more podium finishes at the end of the season, Dragon Racing finished second overall.

D'Ambrosio and Duval remained the driver pairing in the FIA Formula E Championship 2015/16 . D'Ambrosio won the Mexico City ePrix 2016 and achieved two more podium places, Duval achieved four fourth places as the best results. In the overall standings, Dragon fell back to fourth place.

In the formula e 2016/17 joined the team under the name of Faraday Future Dragon Racing with the US-American - Chinese electric car startups Faraday Future of developed drive. The drivers D'Ambrosio and Duval stayed with the team. At the end of the season, the team finished eighth overall with 33 points.

The team with the driver duo D'Ambrosio and Neel Jani competed in the 2017/18 FIA Formula E Championship . After Faraday Future ran into financial difficulties, the team returned as Dragon Racing without a title sponsor . After the vehicle called PENSKE EV-2 proved not to be competitive at the season opener in Hong Kong , Jani left the team. His successor was José María López . The team achieved a podium finish and finished ninth in the team standings with 41 points at the end of the season.

In the 2018/19 season Dragon Racing competed again with López, his new teammate was Maximilian Günther . Geox was announced as the title sponsor, the team entered under the name Geox Dragon . Before the Mexico City E-Prix , Felipe Nasr was introduced as the team's new regular driver, Günther became a test and reserve driver. From the Rome E-Prix , Nasr was replaced by Günther again. At the end of the season, the team finished tenth in the team ranking with 23 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
FIA Formula E Championship 2014/15		AT	PUT	PUN	BUE	MIA	LBH	MON	BER	MOS	LON							171	2.
Oriol Servià	06th	7th	7th	9	9
Loïc Duval						7th	9	DNF	3	15th	8th	3
Jérôme D'Ambrosio	07th	6th	5	8th	14th	4th	6th	5	1	11	2	2
FIA Formula E Championship 2015/16		AT	PUT	PUN	BUE	MEX	LBH	PAR	BER	LON								143	4th
Loïc Duval	06th	4th	*16 *	4th	6th	4th	8th	°DNF °	DNF	DNF	4th
Jérôme D'Ambrosio	07th	5	14th	3	16	1	°7 °	11	16	8th	3
FIA Formula E Championship 2016/17		HKG	MAR	BUE	MEX	MON	PAR	BER		NYC		MTR						33	8th.
Loïc Duval	06th	14th	18th	6th	DNF	NC		15th	DNF	5	*13 *	DNF	*19 *
Mike Conway							14th
Jérôme D'Ambrosio	07th	7th	13	8th	14th	DNF	DNF	13	13	DNF	10	11	9
FIA Formula E Championship 2017/18		HKG		MAR	SAN	MEX	PUN	ROME	PAR	BER	ZUR	NYC						41	9.
Neel Jani	06th	18th	18th
José María López				6th	°DNF °	12	8th	*17 *	10	18th	12	DNF	DNF
Jérôme D'Ambrosio	07th	NC	15th	15th	8th	11	9	7th	12	19th	3	13	DNF
FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19		TO YOU	MAR	SAN	MEX	HKG	SAY	ROME	PAR	MCO	BER	BRN	NYC					22nd	10.
Maximilian Günther	06th	15th	12	DNF				*19 *	5	DNF	14th	5	DNF	*19 *
Felipe Nasr					19th	DNF	DNF
José María López	07th	DNF	11	9	17th	11	DNF	16	13	°10 °	20th	DSQ	12	DNF
FIA Formula E Championship 2019/20		TO YOU		SAN	MEX	MAR	BER		BER		BER							7th	11.
Brendon Hartley	06th	19th	9	DNF	12	19th
Sérgio Sette Câmara							°DSQ °	11	DNF	21st	15th	19th
Nico Müller	07th	DNS	DNF	12	DNF	20th	NC	14th	12	20th	17th	22nd

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Web links

Commons : Dragon Racing  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Norman Fischer: Competition for Andretti: Dragon Racing in Formula E. Motorsport-Total.com, September 25, 2013, accessed on February 20, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Timo Pape: Dragon: Fuoco becomes a replacement pilot, Geox sponsor. e-Formel.de, November 15, 2018, accessed on August 1, 2019 .