Nyck de Vries

Nyck de Vries, born 6 February 1995, is a Dutch racing driver who won the 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship driving for ART Grand Prix. A former member of the McLaren Young Driver Programme, de Vries graduated to F2 in 2017, and proved to be regular front runner throughout his time in the Championship.

After finishing in seventh in his rookie F2 season, de Vries moved to Pertamina Prema for the 2018 season. The Dutchman duly became an outside shot for the title during the 2018 season, picking up three wins en-route to finishing fourth overall.

The 2019 season saw de Vries start the campaign as the favourite for the title, having moved to ART Grand Prix which had won the Drivers' Championship in 2018 with George Russell. de Vries would go on to dominate the season after a slow start, claiming the 2019 Championship with three races to spare at the 2019 Sochi Feature Race.

After winning the F2 Championship in 2019, de Vries secured a seat in the FIA Formula E Championship with Mercedes-Benz.

Background
de Vries' career began in typical fashion, with a number of karting appearances in lower capacity classes until his breakthrough year in 2007, coming second in the Belgian and Dutch Rotax Junior classes. The Dutchman soon began winning Championships outright, attracting the attention of the McLaren Young Driver Programme, who duly signed de Vries up in 2010. After a further two seasons in karting de Vries made the move to racing cars, joining the Formula Renault 2.0 series for 2012.

McLaren Motivation
It took de Vries three attempts to take the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps crown, a victory that came alongside the Formula Renault Eurocup title in 2014. That earned the Dutchman a promotion to Formula Renault 3.5 for 2015, with a single victory carrying de Vries to third in the Championship. In 2016 de Vries was moved on into the GP3 Series, with a couple of wins leaving him sixth in that Championship.

Formula 2 History
After completing his maiden GP3 Series season, de Vries, with backing from McLaren earned a spot in the 2017 FIA Formula 2 Championship field, with Rapax signing him up alongside Johnny Cecotto, Jr. A successful debut race saw de Vries claim two points finishes at the season opening round in Bahrain, besting teammate Cecotto in both races. The Dutchman claimed another points finish in Bareclona, before claiming his first victory with an excellent performance in the 2017 Monaco Sprint Race, in front of the McLaren F1 team.

Search for Success: 2017
After his maiden F2 victory de Vries claimed another podium finish in Baku, before going on a four race scoreless streak. That prompted de Vries to look elsewhere and, in spite of a double podium finish at the Hungaroring, de Vries secured a drive with Racing Engineering for the rest of 2017. However, while the switch would result in de Vries scoring another podium finish, this time at Spa Francorchamps, another run of non-point scores ultimately saw the Dutchman slip to seventh in the Championship come seasons end.

With Racing Engineering leaving F2 at the end of 2017 de Vries secured a drive with Pertamina Prema, partnered by Indonesian racer Sean Gelael.

Prema Performance: 2018
de Vries opened his 2018 campaign with a sixth place in the 2018 Bahrain Feature Race, before improving to fifth in the Sprint with fastest lap. The Dutchman would then suffer a break failure while fighting in the top ten in the 2018 Baku Feature Race, before storming through the field in the Baku Sprint to claim second behind George Russell. de Vries would then battle for victory in the Barcelona Feature, but had to settle for second behind Russell once again, before retiring from the Sprint with a puncture.

A pointless weekend in Monte Carlo followed, before de Vries claimed fifth and fastest lap in the 2018 Le Castellet Feature Race. He would follow that up with a battling performance to claim his first win of the campaign in the Sprint Race, collecting fastest lap again having charged ahead of Louis Delétraz mid-race. Unfortunately for de Vries his momentum was stalled again by a double non-score in Austria, before he returned to the points in Silverstone with a seventh and a sixth.

The Dutchman's form would return just before the summer-break, however, as he stormed to victory in the 2018 Hungaroring Feature Race, having leapt ahead of Sérgio Sette Câmara and Lando Norris early on. A seventh place in the Sprint race followed, before de Vries secured his first F2 pole position for the 2018 Spa Feature Race. He duly dominated the race to claim victory and fastest lap, albeit with Câmara stalking him, throughout, before finishing fourth in the 2018 Spa Sprint Race to remain in title contention in fourth, 35 points behind.

Yet, de Vries' title bid begun to unwind in the two Monza races, as the Dutchman only claimed two points across the weekend. He followed that up with pole position and third place in the 2018 Sochi Feature Race, having been beaten in the pitlane by Alexander Albon, before Nicholas Latifi mugged him for second late on. Fourth place in the Sochi Sprint left the Dutchman 58 points behind Russell at the head of the Championship, and hence out of the title fight.

de Vries ended the 2018 season with a solid performance in the two Yas Marina races, which left him in fourth in the Championship on 202 points.

An ART Ambition: 2019
For the 2019 season de Vries would secure a move to ART Grand Prix, the team that had supported Russell to the 2018 Championship. Furthermore, with Russell, Albon and Norris all having been promoted to Formula One for 2019, de Vries would start the 2019 season as the favourite for the Championship, racing as ART's number one driver. Yet, it would be a quiet start to the season for the Dutchman, as he finished sixth and seventh in the season opening races in Bahrain.

At the 2019 Baku Feature Race de Vries' form returned, with the Dutchman claiming the lead at the start of the race, before being jumped by Jack Aitken in the pits to finish second. A strong run to fourth followed in the Baku Sprint, before he finished in fifth place in the 2019 Barcelona Feature Race. He duly claimed his first win of the season in the corresponding Sprint, after a mid-race dice for the with rookie Anthoine Hubert.

A dominant display from de Vries followed at the 2019 Monaco Feature Race, with the Dutchman claiming pole and victory to underline his title challenge. Seventh in the Sprint followed, before de Vries secured his third win in four races at Le Castellet, having aced his start in the Feature Race, to streak ahead of title rival Câmara and claim the Championship lead. After failing to score in the Sprint, de Vries would then go on to score two third place finishes in the Red Bull Ring races, having started from pole in the Feature, but been undercut during the stops.

A quiet race in the 2019 Silverstone Feature Race followed for de Vries, before he secured third in the Silverstone Sprint as another of his title rivals Luca Ghiotto claimed victory. de Vries bounced back to secure pole position for the 2019 Hungaroring Feature Race, but was beaten to victory by Nicholas Latifi in the pits, before claiming seventh in the corresponding Sprint. However, de Vries would head into the 2019 summer-break with a healthy Championship lead, 30 points ahead of closest challenger Latifi.

After the tragic events of the 2019 Spa Feature Race, in which de Vries was the only driver to score points after claiming pole position for the fateful race, the Dutchman would secure third in the Monza Feature, enjoying a race-long battle with title rival Ghiotto. Third in the Monza Sprint would leave de Vries just a handful of points away from the Championship, as his main rivals Latifi and Ghiotto failed to score. The Dutchman duly claimed the crown with a dominant display in the 2019 Sochi Feature Race, claiming pole before sprinting away from Latifi to secure the win.

Second in the 2019 Sochi Sprint Race proved to be de Vries' last F2 podium and points finish, with the Dutchman failing to score at all in the Season Finale. Regardless, de Vries was the F2 Champion of 2019 with 266 points, beating Latifi in second by 52 points as both secured seats outside of F2 for 2020.

Post Formula 2 Career
2018 saw de Vries move into the FIA World Endurance Championship, competing in the LMP2 class with Racing Team Nederland for the 2018-19 season. He would continue to race in both WEC and F2 through 2018 and 2019, before securing a full-time seat in the FIA Formula E Championship with Mercedes-Benz.

Full Formula 2 Record
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Formula 2 Entries
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Career Results
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