Oreca
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| Founded | 1973 |
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| Founder(s) | Hugues de Chaunac |
| Base | Magny-Cours, France |
| Team principal(s) | Hugues de Chaunac |
| Current series | FIA World Endurance Championship |
| Former series |
Formula 3000 French Supertouring Championship French F3 FIA GT Championship European Le Mans Series American Le Mans Series European F2 European Rally Championship |
| Teams' Championships |
1997 FIA GT (GT2) 1998 FIA GT (GT2) 2007 LMS (G1T) 2010 LMS (LMP1) |
| Drivers' Championships |
1975 European F2 (Laffite) 1977 European F2 (Arnoux) 1979 French F3 (Prost) 1983 French F3 (Ferté) 1984 French F3 (Grouillard) 1985 French F3 (Raphanel) 1986 French F3 (Dalmas) 1987 French F3 (Alesi) 1988 French F3 (Comas) 1989 French F3 (Gounon) 2003-04 ERC (Jean-Joseph) 2004 SRC (Hevia) 2006 FFSA GT(Ayari/Hernandez) 2007 FFSA GT(Ayari/Narac) 2007 LMS (GT1) (Ayari/Ortelli) 2010 LMS (LMP1) (Sarrazin) |
| Website | http://www.oreca-group.com/ |
ORECA (Organisation Exploitation Compétition Automobiles) is a French racing team, founded in 1973 and run by Hugues de Chaunac, former team manager of F1 team AGS. Oreca has had success in many areas of motorsport including Formula Three where drivers including Alain Prost, Jacques Laffite and Jean Alesi have won the French Formula Three Championship for the team a record 11 times.
Since the early 90s the team has concentrated on running sports cars and GT cars running a BMW operation in the French Supertouring Championship, winning the FIA GT Championship and the Le Mans 24 Hours in the GT2 class with a Chrysler Viper GTS-R and overall for Mazda 787B in 1991, on their second attempt and first after a decade; preparing the Renault Clio S1600 for rallying and winning the ice racing Andros Trophy with a Toyota Corolla driven by Alain Prost.
In the 2000s, Oreca assisted Renault Sport in building the new Megane V6 for the Renault Eurocup Megane Sport and fielding an Audi R8 in the 2005 Le Mans 24 Hours with support from Audi France. Also for 2006 Oreca ran the Saleen S7R in the Le Mans Series. The Oreca Saleen S7R had already won the 2006 Spa-Francorchamps Le Mans race.
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