Venturi Racing

Venturi competed on the single-make Spark chassis used by all Formula E teams and initially built its own powertrains before entering a partnership with Mercedes-Benz from the 2019–20 season. The team supplied powertrains to customer team Dragon Racing during the 2015–16 season and to the Mercedes-affiliated HWA Racelab team during the 2018–19 season, with HWA preparing for the official Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team entry.

For Formula E's inaugural 2014–15 season, Venturi signed Nick Heidfeld and Stéphane Sarrazin as drivers, with Franck Baldet as team coordinator. At the debut Beijing ePrix, Heidfeld was running second and attempted to overtake Nicolas Prost for the lead on the final lap; the pair collided, both failed to finish, and Prost received a 10-place grid penalty for the following round in Putrajaya. Heidfeld took the team's only podium of the season at the Moscow ePrix, finishing third behind eventual champion Nelson Piquet Jr. and Lucas di Grassi. Sarrazin won the final race from pole but was penalised for exceeding the maximum energy usage and dropped to 15th. Heidfeld finished 12th in the Drivers' Championship on 31 points; Sarrazin was 14th on 22.

For 2015–16, Venturi signed 1997 Formula One World Champion Jacques Villeneuve alongside Sarrazin. Villeneuve left after the Punta del Este ePrix following disagreements on team direction and was replaced by Mike Conway. Sarrazin scored points at every race, finishing second behind di Grassi in Long Beach — Conway's first points finish of the season also came there. Sarrazin became the first driver in Formula E to record points at every round in a single season. The team finished sixth in the Teams' Championship with 77 points.

In 2016–17, Sarrazin was partnered by FIA GT World Cup driver Maro Engel. The season proved difficult; the team's best result was Engel's fifth place in Monaco. For the 2017 Paris ePrix, Tom Dillmann substituted for Engel, who was racing in the DTM at EuroSpeedway Lausitz. Dillmann then replaced Sarrazin for the final six races after Sarrazin moved to Techeetah. Venturi finished ninth in the Teams' Championship on 30 points.

For 2017–18, Venturi rehired Engel and signed Edoardo Mortara. On his debut weekend in Hong Kong, Mortara led for most of the race before spinning out of first place with three laps remaining while attempting to set the fastest lap; he was classified third and promoted to second after race winner Daniel Abt was disqualified. The team finished seventh in the Teams' Championship with 72 points.

In May 2018, Venturi signed Felipe Massa on a three-year deal alongside Mortara. Susie Wolff became Team Principal and Franck Baldet Technical Director. In March 2018 Venturi had already established a junior programme — the first Formula E team to do so — with eight drivers participating. At Formula E's 50th race, the 2019 Hong Kong ePrix, Mortara recorded Venturi's maiden victory. Further podiums followed at the Mexico City E-Prix and Monaco E-Prix, the latter also Massa's first podium in Formula E.

For 2019–20, Norman Nato was retained as reserve driver and Arthur Leclerc, brother of Ferrari Formula One driver Charles Leclerc, was appointed test driver. Telecommunications company ROKiT joined as a three-year title sponsor on the eve of the season opener. The team recorded five consecutive points finishes before the season was suspended five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After resumption with six races at the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit in Berlin, Venturi finished tenth in the Teams' Standings with 44 points, and Massa retired from Formula E at the season's final race.

For Season 7 — Formula E's first as a World Championship — Venturi promoted Nato to a full-time race seat replacing Massa. Jake Hughes joined as Reserve Driver and Jérôme d'Ambrosio was appointed Deputy Team Principal after retiring from competition. In December 2020 a US investor group led by Swid and Aznar Botella purchased the team; Wolff remained as Team Principal.

Mortara opened Season 7 with a podium at the Diriyah ePrix then was involved in a high-speed frontal collision during practice for Race 2 after an incorrect software parameter caused a brake failure, sustaining a microfracture of his fourth vertebra. Returning one race later, Mortara secured three further podiums including a second career victory at the inaugural Puebla ePrix — Venturi's first win in 834 days. In the season finale in Berlin, a collision with Mitch Evans on the opening lap removed Mortara from championship contention; Mercedes' Nyck de Vries won the Season 7 title and Mortara became Formula E's first vice-World Champion. Nato won the final race in Berlin in his debut campaign, becoming only the third driver to win a race in a Formula E rookie season. Venturi finished seventh in the Teams' Standings with 146 points — its most successful season to that point.

For 2021–22, Lucas di Grassi — Season 3 champion — replaced Nato. D'Ambrosio became Team Principal and Wolff was promoted to CEO. At the 2022 Diriyah ePrix, Venturi scored its first Formula E double podium: Mortara won Race 2 while di Grassi secured his first podium for the team. Mortara claimed Venturi's first pole position since the 2015 London ePrix — 2,512 days earlier — at the 2022 Berlin ePrix, then won Race 1 there to start a four-race podium run encompassing wins in Marrakesh and in the 100th Formula E race in Seoul. Di Grassi became the first driver to score 1,000 points in Formula E, achieving the milestone in Race 1 of the Seoul ePrix, and won at the 2022 London ePrix for his 13th Formula E victory. The team amassed 295 points and finished second in the World Teams' Championship behind Mercedes-EQ — the most successful season in Venturi's history. Mortara finished third in the Drivers' Championship and di Grassi fifth. At the season's close, Wolff and D'Ambrosio departed ahead of the transition to Maserati MSG Racing in Season 9.

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