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DS Penske (formerly Dragon Racing and Dragon/Penske) is an team that is involved in many areas of . 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 and Stephen J. Luczo. The team competed in the from 2007 until 2014, and in 2014 Dragon Racing became one of the founding Formula E teams. It currently competes under the name 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, Sébastien Bourdais, Loïc Duval, , and .


History

Luczo Dragon Racing
The team debuted as Luczo Dragon Racing in 2007. The team fielded a one-off entry at the 2007 Indianapolis 500 with a Penske loanee driver . Jay Penske and Stephen J. Luczo were co-owners. Briscoe qualified 7th and finished 5th at Indianapolis 500. The car was notable for being painted in a "" paint schemes to resemble ' 1988 Indianapolis 500 winning car, with Symantec software as the lead sponsor.

Luczo Dragon ran a six-race schedule in 2008 including the Indianapolis 500 with IndyCar veteran , 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 2009, fielding 2008 champion . 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 500Miller, Robin. Tracy To Lead Restructured Dragon Racing , Speed TV, April 2, 2011, Retrieved January 14, 2012 for drivers and . 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 , and the other driven by four-time champion Sébastien Bourdais, 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 Toronto. 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, Electric Racing: Part 3, Editorial Triple League Racing, March 3, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2014.


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 Andretti Autosport had already announced their entry by then.


2014–15 season
In July 2014, Dragon announced as their first driver. Later that month, Jérôme d'Ambrosio was announced as the second driver. Conway would actually not make his debut as his seat was taken over by Oriol Servià, 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. Loïc Duval 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 , 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 2016 Paris ePrix.

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 . Jani would only make a single appearance at the 2017 Hong Kong ePrix double-header, with José María López 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 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 . D'Ambrosio left the team to join , which prompted Dragon to promote their reserve driver Maximilian Günther to the empty seat. Prior to the 2019 Mexico City ePrix, Günther was replaced by . Günther got back into the seat at the Rome ePrix 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 and Nico Müller. 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.

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 2021 Monaco ePrix. 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 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- driver Antonio Giovinazzi 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 after 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 Hyderabad ePrix, 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 Maximilian Günther. Günther managed to win two rounds in this season: race 1 of the Jeddah ePrix and race 1 of the Shanghai ePrix.


2025–26 season
Vergne moved to their sister team Citroën Racing. He would be replaced by .


Sponsors
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InstaForex
Fenix
Mouser Electronics
Saudi Research and Marketing Group
IQONIQ
Bosch
Athletic Propulsion Labs
Yahoo!
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Drivers

Indycar


Formula E
  • Oriol Servià (2014-2015)
  • Jérôme d'Ambrosio (2014–2018)
  • Loïc Duval (2015–2017)
  • (2017)
  • (2017)
  • Maximilian Günther (2018–2019)
  • José María López (2018–2019)
  • (2019)
  • (2019)
  • Nico Müller (2019–2021)
  • Sérgio Sette Câmara (2020–2022)
  • Joel Eriksson (2021)
  • Antonio Giovinazzi (2022)
  • Stoffel Vandoorne (2023–2024)
  • Jean-Éric Vergne (2023–2025)
  • Maximilian Günther (2024–present)
  • (2025–present)


Racing results

Complete Formula E results
() (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
6Oriol Servià7799
Loïc Duval 79Ret31583
7Jérôme d'Ambrosio6581446511122
6Loïc Duval416†4648RetRetRet4
7Jérôme d'Ambrosio514†31617111693
6Loïc Duval14186RetRet 15Ret513Ret19
14
7Jérôme d'Ambrosio713814RetNC1313Ret10119
61818
José María López 6Ret12817†101812RetRet
7Jérôme d'AmbrosioRet1515811971219313Ret
6Maximilian Günther1612Ret 19†5Ret145Ret19†
19RetRet
7José María LópezRet1191711Ret16131020DSQ12Ret
6199Ret1219
Sérgio Sette Câmara DSQ17Ret211519
7Nico MüllerDNSRet12Ret20Ret1412201722
6Nico Müller21513922018
Joel Eriksson 1715172216101616
7Sérgio Sette Câmara2041612Ret2115151618111781818
7Sérgio Sette Câmara15172015121317191920DNS17NC91213
99Antonio Giovinazzi2020Ret19Ret162022Ret19RetRetRetRetRetWD
16
1Stoffel Vandoorne101120876Ret894912118115
25Jean-Éric Vergne1271612573751611515Ret22
2Stoffel Vandoorne81458168Ret37209691198
25Jean-Éric Vergne6287126742106735175
7Maximilian Günther1161Ret17108Ret101RetRet6RetRet7
25Jean-Éric Vergne956712126862516Ret3515
Notes
  • – In the inaugural season, all teams were supplied with a powertrain by McLaren.
  • † – 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
3
33
Notes
  • – The powertrain is a rebadged Penske EV-3.


Complete IndyCar Series results
()
IR-05 HI7R V812 5
IR-05 HI8R V812 2324 25 272126
IR-05 HI9R V82208202261216812101816999914
IR-05 HI10R V82481420162916144211372129161817
21 33 18
IR-05 HI11R V88 16 1213 1626 C
Wth
88 27
20 DNQ
Patrick Carpentier DNQ
DW12 DC00 V6 623231926
IndyCar V6 22 151815 24 9
DC00 V6 Sébastien Bourdais72191718
IndyCar V6 2024 141542223
DW12 IndyCar V6 Sebastián Saavedra62020271932221014131923161519218141224
Sébastien Bourdais7111615142924112022141623121038512

  1. With support from .
  2. Non-points-paying, exhibition race.
  3. 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.


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