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Nyck
De Vries Netherlands

Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team
Season 2021/22 Stats

Standing

7th

Wins

2

Podiums

2

Date of Birth

06/02/1995 (27)

Birthplace

Sneek

Debut Race

2019 Diriyah E-Prix - R1

Team Mate

Team Mate

Stoffel

Vandoorne
Mercedes-EQ Nyck de Vries

All Time Stats

Races Entered

36

Wins

4

Podiums

7

Championship Points

232

Titles Won

1

Highest Championship Finish

1(x1)

Highest Race Finish

1(x4)

Fastest Laps

2

Pole Positions

2

Latest De Vries

Biography

2019/20 was an impressive debut campaign for Nyck de Vries, taking his first podium on the way to the Rookie of the Year honours. It was nothing on 2020/21 though as the Dutchman became Formula E’s first Drivers’ World Champion right at the last, on home soil for Mercedes-EQ in Berlin.

Starting his motorsport adventure at an early age, de Vries first cut his teeth in karting. After winning back-to-back Karting World Championship in 2010 and 2011, de Vries stepped up to single-seater racing in Formula Renault 2.0. 

The Dutchman, originally from Sneek, continued his winning ways, culminating in championship wins in Formula Renault 2.0 Alps and Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup in 2014. The following year, he raced in the Formula Renault 3.5 series finishing in third place and taking a win in the final race.

De Vries made the jump up to GP3 with ART Grand Prix in 2016. Amongst a talented grid, the Dutchman finished the year in sixth with two wins.

Advancing up the single-seater ladder, de Vries moved up to Formula 2 in 2017 driving for Rapax and then Racing Engineering. He claimed his first victory in Monaco and finished his debut year in seventh. For 2018 de Vries switched to Prema Racing and continued his upward learning curve in the Formula 1 support series with three wins and ending the year in fourth.

Reuniting with ART Grand Prix for the 2019 F2 season, de Vries triumphed against a highly-competitive field to take the championship title with four wins and eight podiums. The same year, he ventured out of open-wheel racing as he joined the World Endurance Championship line-up for Racing Team Nederland.

Before graduating to a full-time drive with the Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team, de Vries completed rookie tests with Audi, NIO and Envision Virgin Racing. 

De Vries' rookie campaign was a season of development and progress, the Dutchman immediately showed his speed with an appearance in the opening Super Pole session in Diriyah and combined this with his first points-scoring finish.

Throughout the season, the Dutchman showed flashes of brilliance but was hampered by teething troubles and rookie mistakes from both the team and the driver's inexperience in all-electric street racing. Their mutual efforts were rewarded in the final race of the season as Vandoorne's first victory was complemented by de Vries finishing in second.

De Vries flew out of the blocks in Season 7 and topped every session on the way to a maiden Formula E race win in Diriyah. From there, it looked a certainty that the talented 26-year-old would be in the mix throughout the series' first campaign as an FIA World Championship.

Another victory would follow in Valencia, with the Dutchman getting it right where many others got it horribly wrong. After that point, though, Mercedes-EQ traversed a tricky spell in mid-season, where de Vries scored just once between Rounds 6 and 11 - with the trip to New York at the end of that patch and a costly mistake in Monaco proving to be his lowest points this season.

A double podium in London propelled de Vries to that Drivers' World Championship lead, but in reality he'd never been far away from that opening weekend onwards. A rollercoaster final couple of rounds in the German capital saw the Dutchman navigate the drama with his rivals falling by the wayside. 

He returns to defend his title alongside Stoffel Vandoorne, with the pair aiming to ensure Mercedes-EQ doubles up.

Season Records

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Year

Team

Podiums

Wins

Season Poles

Season Best Finish

2020/21

Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team

4

2

1

1 (x2)

Round

Location

Date

Gird Pos

Finish

Points

Championship Pos

1

Diriyah

26/02/2021

1

1

29

1

2

Diriyah

27/02/2021

20

9

3

1

3

Rome

10/04/2021

7

0

0

3

4

Rome

11/04/2021

17

0

0

5

5

Valencia

24/04/2021

7

1

25

1

6

Valencia

25/04/2021

18

16

0

1

7

Monaco

08/05/2021

24

0

0

2

8

Puebla

19/06/2021

14

9

2

3

9

Puebla

20/06/2021

19

0

0

6

10

New York

10/07/2021

18

13

0

7

11

New York

11/07/2021

22

18

0

10

12

London

24/07/2021

9

2

18

4

13

London

25/07/2021

4

2

18

1

14

Berlin

14/08/2021

19

22

0

1

15

Berlin

15/08/2021

13

8

4

1

2019/20

Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team

1

0

0

2 (x1)

Round

Location

Date

Gird Pos

Finish

Points

Championship Pos

1

Diriyah

22/11/2019

3

6

8

6

2

Diriyah

23/11/2019

23

16

0

9

3

Santiago

18/01/2020

8

5

10

11

4

Mexico City

15/02/2020

3

0

0

11

5

Marrakesh

29/02/2020

4

11

0

13

6

Berlin

05/08/2020

5

4

12

12

7

Berlin

06/08/2020

4

0

0

13

8

Berlin

08/08/2020

13

18

0

14

9

Berlin

09/08/2020

5

4

12

12

10

Berlin

12/08/2020

19

14

0

13

11

Berlin

13/08/2020

4

2

18

11

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