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, he 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 of the season.
De Vries jumped up to GP3 (the predecessor of FIA Formula 3) with ART Grand Prix in 2016. Amongst a talented grid, the Dutchman finished the season in sixth with two wins.
The following year, he moved up to Formula 2, driving for Rapax and then Racing Engineering. He claimed his first victory in Monaco and finished his rookie 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 Formula 2 season - his third in the championship - 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 | 2020-22
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, where he combined this with his first points-scoring finish in the all-electric championship.
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 the competitive Formula E environment. Their mutual efforts were rewarded in the season’s final race as Vandoorne's first victory was complemented by de Vries finishing in second - a rare feat in the record books.
De Vries flew out of the blocks at the start of the 2020/21 season, topping 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. Teammate Vandoorne would become our eventual 2021/22 Formula E champion.
Formula 1
Away from Formula E, de Vries had a star appearance for Williams Racing 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.
De Vries went on to make 10 Grand Prix appearances with the squad, but failed to score any points and left mid-season, following the British Grand Prix.
Formula E | 2023-26
De Vries returned to the Formula E grid with a seat at Mahindra Racing for the 2023/24 season.
His return proved to be a learning curve for the former champion, who missed out on the start of the GEN3 era. Taking his time to become reacquainted, there were flashes of his championship winning prowess, 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 2020/21 champion had one of his best seasons, bringing Mahindra back to the podium with second in Monaco. He then added to this with a further two second place finishes, rounding out the year with two visits to the podium in the London double-header.
The successful run continued in the 2025/26 season, with de Vries giving the Mahindra squad their first victory in the GEN3 era - and his first since 2022 - at the Monaco E-Prix. He followed this up with another victory at the Tokyo E-Prix, and ended the season 7th in the standings with 115 points.
The Dutchman continues with the team for the GEN4 era.