Jake
Dennis

Jake Dennis was born on 16 June 1995 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. He started karting at the age of eight and by 2010 had won both the Super 1 British Junior Championship and the CIK-FIA U18 World Championship. In 2011 he moved into single-seaters with Fortec Motorsport and took the InterSteps title with eight wins. He then raced for Fortec in Formula Renault 2.0 and won the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award. He finished third in the 2015 FIA Formula 3 European Championship and fourth in the 2016 GP3 Series, where he won twice for Arden.

Dennis never started a Formula One race. In 2018 he worked as simulator and development driver for Red Bull Racing and took part in tests in Barcelona in May and at the Hungaroring in August. At the 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Red Bull put him in the car for first free practice, and he finished the session in 16th place.

After a spell in sports car racing, he moved into Formula E and made his debut in 2020-21 with BMW i Andretti. He won in Valencia and London and finished third in the standings on 91 points. In 2022-23 he won the Formula E world championship with Andretti, clinching it in London with one race to spare. Earlier that season he had won in Mexico City, the first race of the Gen3 era. In the 2023-24 season he won the first race in Diriyah.

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