Early career

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

Originally from Uitwellingerga, the Dutchman 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 winning the final race.

De Vries jumped up to GP3 with ART Grand Prix in 2016. Amongst a talented grid, the Dutchman finished the season 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, winning three wins and ending the year in fourth place.

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.

Formula E

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 at the opening Super Pole session in Diriyah, and he combined this with his first points-scoring finish.

Throughout the season, the Dutchman showed flashes of brilliance. Still, he was hampered by teething troubles and rookie mistakes from the team and the driver's inexperience in all-electric street racing. Their mutual efforts were rewarded in the season’s final race 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 would finish the season at the top of the standings, seven points ahead of his nearest challenger and current teammate, Edoardo Mortara.

De Vries remained with Mercedes to defend his title, which got off to a race-winning start under the lights in Diriyah. However, his season didn't quite come together with the best being another victory in Berlin on the way to ninth in the standings.

Formula 1

Away from the Formula E grid, de Vries had a star appearance for Williams in Formula 1, scoring points on a substitute debut at the 2022 Italian Grand Prix.

That performance in Monza earned the Dutch champion a drive with Scuderia Alpha Tauri for 2023.

A Return to Formula E

After a brief stint in Formula 1, de Vries returned to the Formula E grid with a seat at Mahindra Racing for Season 10.

Season 10 was a learning curve for de Vries, the former champion missing out on the start of the GEN3 period. Taking his time, there were flashes with the Dutchman running up the sharp-end and ending the year with a best finish of fourth in London.

Continuing with the outfit for the GEN3 Evo era, the Season 7 champion will be looking for a return to the podium in 2024/25 with Mahindra Racing.

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