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DAMS will join the FIA Formula 3 Championship next year, effectively taking the place of the departing Jenzer Motorsport.
There will be 10 teams racing in F3 in 2025, which will be the first season to feature the new Dallara F3 2025 car, meaning the grid will remain at 30 cars.
“DAMS is delighted to announce that the team has been selected to compete in the FIA F3 Championship from the 2025 season, for the next three years, pending FIA approval,” the team announced in an online statement.
The French outfit raced in FIA F3’s predecessor GP3 in 2016 and ’17, winning two races and taking four other podiums and one pole position. It came fourth in the teams’ standings in its first season.
It has scarcely competed in the third tier of single-seater racing, instead establishing itself in Formula 1’s primary feeder series. International Formula 3000 was its home from 1989 to 2001, then from 2005 onwards it raced in Int. F3000’s successor GP2 (now known as Formula 2). It has won nine teams’ titles since debuting, including two in GP2 Asia.
Rival series Formula Renault 3.5 attracted DAMS for its inaugural season in 2005, then again from 2012 to ’15. It won double titles in 2013 and ’14, but dropped its programme when Renault cuts its support to the series.
DAMS also has a lengthy history in single-seaters’ top tier, running cars in A1GP from 2005 to ’09 and being a staple of the Formula E grid from 2014 to 2022. It won the teams’ title in the first three FE seasons.