The year after its foundation, DAMS joined the
International Formula 3000 Championship. They stayed in F3000 until
2001. DAMS were one of many French teams that were part of the
Elf young driver sponsorship program. Aside from F3000, DAMS planned to join the F1 World Championship in , with a car (the
GD-01) developed by
Reynard, but lack of funds prevented the team from advancing. His two sons, Olivier and Gregory Driot, took over as co-team principals, until former
Formula 1 driver
Charles Pic bought the team in February 2022. winning races with drivers
José María López and
Nicolas Lapierre. driving for DAMS at the
2009 Istanbul Park GP2 Series round. DAMS was associated with the Toyota Drivers Program (TDP) from 2006 to 2009, and ran their drivers in the GP2 Series. In 2006, it was
Franck Perera and then
Kazuki Nakajima in 2007, who finished 5th in the GP2 championship and raced in the last
Formula One Grand Prix of the season with
Williams. Following this he won a full-time race seat with the team for 2008 and was retained for the 2009 season. In 2008, TDP driver
Kamui Kobayashi replaced Nakajima at DAMS GP2 and became the
Toyota Racing test driver. Kobayashi stayed on in 2009, and was partnered by
Jérôme d'Ambrosio for these two years. Neither driver was able to put together a consistent run of form in the main GP2 Series championships, but Kobayashi did win the
2008–09 Asian championship with the team. won the GP2 championship in
2011. D'Ambrosio remained with the team for
2010, and was paired with
Ho-Pin Tung, who replaced the
Sauber-bound Kobayashi. As part of an agreement with the
Renault Formula One team, both were nominated as Renault F1 test drivers, and the DAMS GP2 cars were liveried in an identical yellow-and-black scheme to the
Renault R30 chassis. D'Ambrosio won the
sprint race at Monaco, but his form thereafter was disappointing and he was rested for one of the rounds in favour of
Romain Grosjean, another driver with Renault F1 links. Grosjean later got the opportunity to move into the team full-time when Tung, yet to score a point after 12 races, sustained a broken
vertebra in a racing accident. D'Ambrosio, Grosjean and Tung finished 12th, 14th and 28th respectively in the drivers' championship, whilst DAMS finished sixth position in the teams' championship. Grosjean remained with the team for 2011, with Norwegian rookie
Pål Varhaug replacing D'Ambrosio, who graduated to F1 with the
Virgin Racing team. DAMS retained its links with Renault, although these were somewhat diluted by the F1 team's new sponsorship deal with
Lotus Cars, which also backed the rival
ART team in GP2. Grosjean dominated the year, winning both the
Asian and
main series championships. DAMS also won the Asian teams' title, but Varhaug's failure to score points in the main series saw the team beaten to the championship by
Addax. For the
2012 season, Grosjean moved to the
Lotus (formerly Renault) Formula One team, and Varhaug switched to the
Auto GP World Series; they were replaced by series veteran
Davide Valsecchi and reigning
British F3 champion
Felipe Nasr. Valsecchi began the season strongly, winning an unprecedented three races in a row in
Bahrain, and later prevailed over closest rival
Luiz Razia to win the championship, whilst Nasr finished on the podium four times to finish tenth in the championship, the second-highest rookie behind
James Calado. Between them, Valsecchi and Nasr scored enough points to win DAMS's first GP2 Teams' Championship, six points ahead of ART, competing under the Lotus GP banner. The team wrapped up both the
2014 Drivers' and Teams' Championships, with
Jolyon Palmer winning the former. DAMS went into the
2015 season with
Red Bull Junior Team driver
Pierre Gasly and
2014 GP3 champion
Alex Lynn as their driver lineup. The team struggled in the
Bahrain feature race with Gasly being involved in a fourth lap collision with
Arthur Pic,
Raffaele Marciello and
Norman Nato and Lynn falling down the order after driving into the back of
Alexander Rossi and damaging his front wing. Both drivers finished outside the points in the following day's sprint race. The team had an improved weekend in
Barcelona, with Lynn taking his first GP2 victory in the sprint race and Gasly joining him on the podium in third. In 2018, the team fielded
Nicholas Latifi and
Alexander Albon in the FIA Formula 2 Championship. The team secured third place in the constructors' championship and took 5 wins during the season (4 for Albon and 1 for Latifi). The team's 2018 lineup will race together for the first time in three years in the
2022 Formula One World Championship for the
Williams team. For the
2019 season, the team hired
Sérgio Sette Câmara to replace Albon, who was promoted to Formula 1 with
Toro Rosso for
2019. They won the Teams' Championship with 418 points, and 6 wins (5 for Latifi, who was promoted to Formula 1 for
2020 to drive for
Williams, and 2 for Sette Câmara, who later moved on to Formula E to drive for the
GEOX Dragon team. For the
2020 season, the team hired
Sean Gelael and
Dan Ticktum to race for them. After a disappointing season, the team slumped to 8th in the Teams' Championship, accumulating a total of 115.5 points, with Ticktum scoring both of their wins (at
Spielberg, and at
Silverstone.) For the
2021 season, the team hired two new drivers
Roy Nissany and
Marcus Armstrong to replace the
Carlin-bound Ticktum and the
WEC-bound Gelael. Scoring only one win all year (through Armstrong at
Jeddah, the team once again finished 8th in the Teams' Championship, with 65 points. For the
2022 season, the team stayed with
Nissany for another season and hired
Japanese rookie
Ayumu Iwasa. 2022 was seen as an improvement for DAMS, as they finished 6th in the Teams' Championship. They scored a total of 2 wins (both scored by Iwasa), and 161 points (141 for Iwasa, who finished 5th in the Drivers' Championship; and 20 for Nissany, who finished 19th.) For the
2023 season, the team stuck with
Iwasa for his second year in the category, and hired
Monegasque rookie
Arthur Leclerc from
Prema's Formula 3 team.
A1 Grand Prix, Formula Renault and Formula E , June 2015 qualifying with the
Nissan IM03 for the
2021 Puebla ePrix. In the 2003 and 2004 seasons, DAMS took part in the
Formula Renault V6 Eurocup, which they won that same year with Argentinian
José María López. In 2005 the team entered the
World Series by Renault. Since 2005, DAMS joined the
GP2 Series but also the
A1 Grand Prix where it serviced three teams. Driot is one of the owners of the
A1 Team France. DAMS also managed
A1 Team Switzerland,
A1 Team Mexico and later
A1 Team South Africa in the A1 Grand Prix championships. With A1 Team France, DAMS was the first winner of the series winning 13 of the 22 races including in the
2005–06 season. For the
2007–08 season, A1 Team France and South Africa collaborated closely to finalize the car like it was previously done with A1 Team Switzerland. The team joined the new
Formula E championship in 2014 under the name
e.dams, with collaboration from
Alain Prost.
Sébastien Buemi was runner-up in the inaugural season and champion in 2015–16, having claimed 8 wins and 13 podiums in 23 races.
Nicolas Prost finished sixth and third respectively, claiming three wins. In the
2016–17 season, the team clinched their third straight constructors' title but Buemi lost the title to
Lucas di Grassi at the
final round in Montreal. Buemi also had to miss the
New York City rounds due to commitments in the
World Endurance Championship and was replaced by
Pierre Gasly. The
following season saw the team's final season with Renault in Formula E fail to see any of their drivers win a single race in the championship. Their highest finish was 2nd for Buemi in
Marrakesh. The team could only finish fifth in the constructors' championship. At the end of the season,
Nicolas Prost left the team. For the
2018–19 season, the team switched to
Nissan and originally hired
Alexander Albon to partner Buemi, however on 26 November 2018 Albon was released from his contract with the team to instead drive in the
2019 Formula One season with the
Toro Rosso team. Four days later, the team signed
Oliver Rowland, who raced for the team in the
2017 FIA Formula 2 Championship. As is traditional with Nissan factory teams, their car numbers are 22 and 23, since the numbers 2 and 3 are pronounced "ni" and "san" in Japanese. Under the Nissan banner, the team couldn't win any championship. Their first powertrain named
Nissan IM01 proved to be controversial as e.dams were the only team to use a dual-motor setup, having scored six poles with this powertrain. This was eventually outlawed in technical regulations for the
2019–20 season. Despite being forced by rules to significantly change their powertrain design, Nissan e.dams improved in the
COVID-impaced 2019–20 season, ending up second in Teams' Championship instead of fourth. After two disappointing seasons in a row with a 10th place in the
2020–21 season and a 9th position in the
2021–22 season,
Nismo decided to part ways with DAMS and operate the team on their own.
Sports car racing campaigned by DAMS in the
1997 FIA GT Championship season Starting from 1997, Driot's team diversified into
sports car racing, entering the
FIA GT Championship in partnership with
Panoz. Splitting up in the following year, DAMS ran a
Lola B98/10 with a
red engine in the
SportsRacing World Cup, winning four races, as well as participating in the
American Le Mans Series and the
24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2000 and 2001, DAMS associated themselves with
General Motors, preparing the works
Cadillac Northstar LMP prototypes for the
American Le Mans Series,
FIA Sportscar Championship and the
24 Hours of Le Mans, but failed to get any competitive results. DAMS (running the Bob Berridge Racing Lola) helped the
Michel Vaillant movie crew in the
2002, 24 Hours of Le Mans entering with a
Lola B98/10-
Judd as
Vaillante and a
Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-
Élan as
Leader. They then switched their effort to an FIA GT return. In 2003, they tried entering two
Nissan 350Z, but once again funds prevented the French team from developing the Japanese car. In 2004, they teamed with
Lamborghini and entered two
Murciélago R-GT cars in the final rounds of the FIA GT Championship. ==Notable drivers==