DS Penske (formerly Dragon Racing) is an

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team that is involved in many areas of

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. The team is based in the United States, but once competed under a French license. DS Penske was founded in 2007 as Dragon Racing by Americans

Jay Penske Jay Penske (born May 5, 1979) is an American businessman best known for creating the media company Penske Media Corporation. Early life and education Born in New York City, New York, Penske is the youngest son of Kathy, an English school teac ...

and

Stephen J. Luczo Stephen J. "Steve" Luczo (born February 28, 1957) is the chairman of the board at Seagate. In January 2009, Luczo, Seagate's chairman, was appointed president and chief executive officer, returning him to the role he held at Seagate from 1998 ...

. The team competed in the

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from 2007 until 2014, and in 2014 Dragon Racing became one of the founding

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teams. It currently competes under the name DS Penske, having been known as GEOX Dragon between 2014 and 2019 and Dragon / Penske Autosport between 2020 and 2022. Notable Dragon Racing drivers include

Jérôme d'Ambrosio Jérôme d'Ambrosio (; born 27 December 1985) is a Belgian former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from to . Since October 2024, d'Ambrosio has served as deputy team principal of Scuderia Ferrari, Ferrari in F ...

Sébastien Bourdais Sébastien Olivier Bourdais (; born 28 February 1979) is a French professional racing driver who currently races in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Cadillac Hertz Team Jota in the Hypercar category. He is one of the most successful dr ...

Loïc Duval Loïc Jean-Claude Duval (; born 12 June 1982) is a French professional racing driver racing for Peugeot Sport in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Duval is a former FIA WEC champion and a winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, win ...

, Ryan Briscoe,

Paul Tracy Paul Anthony Tracy (born December 17, 1968) is a Canadian professional auto racing driver who participated in Champ Car World Series, the IndyCar Series, and the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART). He started kart racing at age five and quick ...

and Tomas Scheckter.

History

Luczo Dragon Racing

The team debuted as Luczo Dragon Racing in 2007. The team fielded a one-off entry at the

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with a Penske loanee driver Ryan Briscoe. Jay Penske and

were co-owners. Briscoe qualified 7th and finished 5th at Indianapolis 500. The car was notable for being painted in a "

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" paint schemes to resemble

Rick Mears Richard Ravon Mears (born December 3, 1951) is an American former race car driver. He is one of four men to win the Indianapolis 500 four times (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991) and is the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six (197 ...

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winning car, with Symantec software as the lead sponsor. ScheckterIndy2008

Luczo Dragon ran a six-race schedule in

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including the

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with IndyCar veteran Tomas Scheckter, this time without support or cars from Penske Racing. While qualifying well, qualifying 3rd and leading numerous laps at the Indy 500 before being knocked out by mechanical trouble. The team expanded to a full-time entrant in

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, fielding 2008

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champion

Raphael Matos Raphael Matos (born August 28, 1981) is a Brazilian professional racing driver. He was the 2008 Firestone Indy Lights Series champion and the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic Series champion. He lives in Miami. He is sometimes also called Rafa Matos. Ca ...

. Matos and the Dragon Racing team went on to win the Rookie of Year honors in 2009 and scored multiple top-10 finishes.

Dragon Racing

In February 2011, Jay Penske re-branded the team as Dragon Racing in April 2011 and jointly announced that

had signed a five-race deal to compete for the team. Additionally the team entered two cars in the Indy 500 for drivers

Scott Speed Scott Andrew Speed (born January 24, 1983) is an American race car driver who has competed in numerous disciplines, including open-wheel racing, open-wheel, stock car racing, stock car, and rallycross racing. In , Speed became the first American ...

and

Ho-Pin Tung Ho-Pin Tung (; born December 4, 1982) is a Dutch-born racing driver who races with a Chinese license. Career Tung was born in Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands, to Chinese parents with ancestry tracing to Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. Tung starte ...

. Tung crashed his car during qualifying and suffered a concussion crashing with only two corners to go, Tung would have qualified in the top 5. Scott Speed was unable to get his car up to speed, and the team let him go during practice. In January 2012, Dragon Racing had operations in Indianapolis and Los Angeles. It entered two cars in the 2012 IndyCar Series season; one driven by

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, and the other driven by four-time

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champion

, but on June 1, 2012, it was revealed that they would reduce operations to just 1 team with Bourdais driving the street courses and Legge on the ovals. Bourdais finished 25th in points with a best finish of fourth. Legge finished 26th with a best finish of 9th. On February 12, 2013, it was announced that Sebastián Saavedra would be joining the team for the 2013 season in the No. 6 car while Bourdais would return in the No. 7. Bourdais and team continued to dominate at Road and Street courses capturing three podium finishes, including two in the double-header in

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. Saavedra finished 21st in points, last among full-time drivers, with two top-10 finishes. In 2014, the team left IndyCar racing to focus on the new

electric powered series.

Formula E

On September 25, 2013, it was announced that Dragon Racing would be joining

with

leading the team. Dragon would be the second American team to join as

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had already announced their entry by then.

2014–15 season

In July 2014, Dragon announced

Mike Conway Michael Robert Conway (born 19 August 1983) is a British professional racing driver. He lives in Sevenoaks, Kent and is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Toyota Motorsport GmbH, Toyota Gazoo Racing. Early caree ...

as their first driver. Later that month,

was announced as the second driver. Conway would actually not make his debut as his seat was taken over by

Oriol Servià Oriol Servià Imbers (born 13 July 1974) is a Spanish racing driver who competed most notably in the IndyCar Series. He raced for Dragon Racing in the 2014–15 Formula E season, and left the series prior to the 2015 Miami ePrix to become manag ...

, who also got signed back in March 2014. Servià only competed in the first four races however, despite finishing on points in all of them.

then stepped in for the rest of the season, beginning from the 2015 Miami ePrix. After a very successful second half of the season, Dragon finished second in Teams' Championship with 171 points.

2015–16 season

Dragon decided not to build their own powertrain for the 2015–16 season and instead made a deal with Venturi to supply their ''VM200-FE-01'' powertrains to the team. Dragon did not change their driver lineup from the previous year and continued to use d'Ambrosio and Duval. After a slight dip in performance, Dragon finished fourth in Teams' Championship with 143 points.

2016–17 season

Prior to the 2016–17 season, Dragon made a deal with

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, who became the title sponsor of the team and also a technical partner. The partnership would come to a close at the end of 2017. Dragon ended the Venturi partnership and became a manufacturer, developing their own powertrains. The pairing of d'Ambrosio and Duval was once again retained, though

, the team's supposed first driver in the 2014–15 season, subbed for Duval at the

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. As a manufacturer, Dragon fell into eighth place in Teams' Championship, scoring only 33 points with no podium finishes.

2017–18 season

Duval left the team and was replaced by

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. Jani would only make a single appearance at the 2017 Hong Kong ePrix double-header, with

José María López José María "Pechito" López (born 26 April 1983) is a Argentine race car driving, driver who is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Akkodis ASP. He is three-time World Touring Car Championship, World Touring Champi ...

replacing Jani for the rest of the season. The team ran two different liveries simultaneously. for each of their drivers. D'Ambrosio was given a red metallic car while Jani/López ran a white car. Despite scoring 41 points, which was more than in the previous year, Dragon fell to ninth place in Teams' Championship.

2018–19 season

For the 2018–19 season, the team got rebranded to GEOX Dragon, reflecting the new sponsorship deal with Geox. D'Ambrosio left the team to join Mahindra Racing, which prompted Dragon to promote their reserve driver

Maximilian Günther Maximilian Günther (born 2 July 1997) is a Germans, German-Austria, Austrian racing driver currently competing under the German flag in Formula E for DS Penske. Günther has previously driven in Formula 2 with Arden International, BWT Arden and ...

to the empty seat. Prior to the 2019 Mexico City ePrix, Günther was replaced by

Felipe Nasr Luiz Felipe de Oliveira Nasr (born 21 August 1992) is a Brazilian racing driver, who competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Porsche. Nasr competed in Formula One from to . In endurance racing, Nasr has won three IMSA SportsCar Cham ...

. Günther got back into the seat at the

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as Nasr had other commitments. Nasr would never return to Dragon again, however. Dragon would once again worsen their position as they only scored 23 points, which was enough for tenth place in Teams' Championship.

2019–20 season

In addition to being a manufacturer, Dragon also became the new suppliers of the Nio 333 FE Team. NIO bought the year-old ''Penske EV-3'' powertrains and rebadged them. For the 2019–20 season, Dragon introduced a new driver lineup consisting of

Brendon Hartley Brendon Morris Hartley (born 10 November 1989) is a New Zealand racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota Motorsport GmbH, Toyota. Hartley competed in Formula One from to . In endurance racing (motorsport) ...

and

Nico Müller Nico Sebastian Müller (born 25 February 1992) is a Swiss people, Swiss professional Auto racing, racing driver currently competing in Formula E for Andretti Global, Andretti Formula E. Career Karting Müller began his karting career in 2004 a ...

. In March 2020, Dragon committed to their manufacturer status for another two seasons. Hartley left the team in July and was replaced by

Sérgio Sette Câmara Sérgio Santos Sette Câmara Filho (born 23 May 1998) is a Brazilians, Brazilian racing driver who currently competes in the 2025 European Le Mans Series with Nielsen Racing. He previously competed in Formula E, having previously raced for Drago ...

. Dragon have fallen down to eleventh place in Teams' Championship, scoring just two points with Hartley's P9 finish in the second race of the 2019 Diriyah ePrix.

2020–21 season

In November 2020, Sette Câmara was confirmed as a full-time driver for the upcoming 2020–21 season. The following month, Müller was confirmed as his partner. Dragon would start the season with the ''Penske EV-4'' powertrain from the previous season, only switching to ''Penske EV-5'' at the

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. In February 2021, Dragon announced a technical partnership with Bosch, who will help develop Dragon's powertrains for the Gen3 era of Formula E. In the chaotic first race of the Valencia ePrix, Müller scored Dragon's first Gen2 era podium with a second-place finish after many cars had to retire or were disqualified due to running out of energy. For the 2021 Puebla ePrix, Joel Eriksson replaced Müller due to a date clash with his DTM commitments. On July 3, 2021, Müller announced on his

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account that he and Dragon decided to part ways, effectively keeping Eriksson in his seat for the rest of the season.

2021–22 season

The ex-

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driver

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replaced Eriksson to partner Sette Câmara. The season was considered as the worst of the team, as the team finished last in the Team's Championship.

2022–23 season

Partnering

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after Techeetah folded, the team was rebranded as DS Penske. The driver lineup consists of two driver champions Jean-Éric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne. Vergne won the

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, the first victory for the team since 2016.

2023–24 season

Both Vergne and Vandoorne were retained in season 10.

2024–25 season

Vandoorne was released from the team and has his seat exchanged with

Drivers

Indycar

* Ryan Briscoe (2007) * Tomas Scheckter (2008) *

(2009–2010) *

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¹ (2011) *

(2011) *

(2012) *

(2012–2013) * Sebastián Saavedra (2013)

Formula E

(2014-2015) *

(2014–2018) *

(2015–2017) *

(2017) *

(2018–2019) *

(2019) *

(2019–2021) *

(2020–2022) * Joel Eriksson (2021) *

(2022) * Stoffel Vandoorne (2023–2024) * Jean-Éric Vergne (2023–present) *

(2024–present)

Racing results

Complete Formula E results

( key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ;Notes: * – In the inaugural season, all teams were supplied with a

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powertrain by

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. * † – Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. * * – Season still in progress.

Other teams supplied by Dragon

;Notes: * – The powertrain is a rebadged Penske EV-3.

Complete IndyCar Series results

( key) # With support from

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. # Non-points-paying, exhibition race. # The 2011 Las Vegas race was abandoned following a Lap 11 fatal crash that damaged the circuit. Under INDYCAR rules, 101 of 200 laps had to be completed for a legal race.

Footnotes

References

External links

Dragon Racing Official WebsiteFormula E team page
{{Formula E teams 2007 establishments in the United States Formula E teams Auto racing teams established in 2007

History

Luczo Dragon Racing

Dragon Racing

Formula E

2014–15 season

2015–16 season

2016–17 season

2017–18 season

2018–19 season

2019–20 season

2020–21 season

2021–22 season

2022–23 season

2023–24 season

2024–25 season

Sponsors

Drivers

Indycar

Formula E

Racing results

Complete Formula E results

Other teams supplied by Dragon

Complete IndyCar Series results

Footnotes

References

External links