Our History

Driot Associés Motor Sport (DAMS) is founded by Jean-Paul Driot and seven-time Formula 1 Grand Prix winner Rene Arnoux.

In its first racing season, DAMS scores three wins with Erik Comas and Erik Bernard in International Formula 3000.

They finished second and third in the drivers’ championship respectively.

DAMS wins its first international title, with Erik Comas claiming the F3000 drivers’ championship.

Allan McNish scores two wins in his rookie season to finish fourth in the standings.

Olivier Panis takes three wins on the way to the F3000 drivers’ title.

He moved to F1 the following year with Ligier, with who he would claim his famous 1996 Monaco Grand Prix victory.

Jean-Christophe Boullion gives DAMS a second consecutive F3000 drivers’ title and is promoted to F1 with Sauber.

He would race again with DAMS during its 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans assault with Panoz.

DAMS competes in the FIA GT Championship with the Panoz Esperante GTR-1 Ford. 

The team took two podiums in Hockenheim and Dijon during the 1998 season.

DAMS competes in the Sports Racing World Cup, taking four wins with the Lola B98/10 in its first season.

DAMS wins the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup drivers’ championship with Jose Maria Lopez after taking five wins.

Lopez would go on to become a triple World Touring Car champion with Citroen and a WEC race winner with Toyota.

DAMS enters the newly created GP2 Series, replacing F3000 on the F1 support bill.

Its first win in the championship came in Barcelona with Jose Maria Lopez.

DAMS wins in the inaugural A1 Grand Prix championship running Team France, taking 13 wins in the 22 races.

DAMS takes both the teams’ and drivers’ titles in the GP2 Asia Series.

The future F1 graduates Kamui Kobayashi and Jerome d’Ambrosio finished first and second in the drivers’ standings respectively.

DAMS takes the teams’ and drivers’ titles in the 2009 and 2010 Formula Le Mans Cup championships.

Romain Grosjean becomes the first Auto GP champion.

DAMS locked out the top three in the drivers’ standings to take the teams’ title.

After taking the GP2 Asia championship during the winter, Romain Grosjean takes the GP2 Series title before moving to F1 with Lotus.

DAMS takes its first GP2 teams’ title and back-to-back drivers’ championships with Davide Valsecchi.

In its second year back in Formula Renault 3.5, DAMS wins the teams’ and drivers’ titles with Kevin Magnussen.

The Dane moved to F1 with McLaren the following year.

DAMS does the double again in GP2 with Jolyon Palmer.

Taking the teams’ and drivers’ championships, the Brit went on to compete for Renault in F1.

Carlos Sainz continues DAMS’ record in Formula Renault 3.5.

Seven victories led to the teams’ and drivers’ championship before making his F1 debut with Toro Rosso.

e.dams division is created, and partnered with Renault, to enter the ground-breaking new all-electric FIA Formula E Championship.

After taking four wins, e.dams becomes the inaugural teams’ champion in Formula E.

Sebastien Buemi wins the Formula E drivers’ title with Renault e.dams taking a second consecutive teams’ championship.

Renault e.dams takes a third consecutive Formula E teams’ championship.

DAMS enters the new FIA Formula 2 Championship, replacing GP2 Series, taking its first win in Monaco with Oliver Rowland.

Nissan becomes new Formula E partner to form Nissan e.dams.

The new partnership took its first win with Sebastien Buemi in New York at the end of the 2018/19 season.

DAMS claims its first Formula 2 teams’ title after taking six wins with Nicholas Latifi and Sergio Sette Camara.

The former moved to F1 with Williams for 2020.

Nissan e.dams claims second in the Formula E teams’ championship, while Oliver Rowland takes his first victory in the series at the penultimate round in Berlin.

On the 17^th of February, Charles Pic takes over DAMS from the Driot family, helping to continue the legacy of Jean-Paul Driot.