Oreca

Audi R8

used by Oreca in 2005.

An Oreca 03-Nissan, raced by Boutsen Energy Racing at the 2011 6 Hours of Castellet.

ORECA (Organisation Exploitation Compétition Automobiles) is a French racing team and race car constructor, 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. Since the early 1990s the team has concentrated on running sports cars and GT cars.

Team

In the 1970s and 1980s, drivers including Alain Prost, Jacques Laffite and Jean Alesi won the French Formula Three Championship for the team a record 11 times.

In the 1990s, Oreca ran a

Le Mans 24 Hours in the GT2 class with a Chrysler Viper GTS-R and overall with a Mazda 787B

in 1991, on their second attempt and first after a decade.

Also, the team prepared the Renault Clio S1600 for rallying and won the ice racing Andros Trophy with a Toyota Corolla driven by Alain Prost.

In the 2000s, Oreca assisted

Le Mans Series. The Oreca Saleen S7R had already won the 2006 Spa-Francorchamps

Le Mans race.

Oreca worked closely with Dodge on the Dodge Viper Competition Coupe, producing well over 100 customer cars in the period 2006–2007 to GT3 specification.

Oreca entered a customer-specification

Autódromo Internacional do Algarve

and the overall championship ahead of the factory Peugeot teams.

In 2011, Oreca won the 12 Hours of Sebring race despite still using the Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP, a model retired at the end of the previous season.^[1]

In 2012 Oreca was selected to run the

Toyota Motorsport GmbH in the FIA World Endurance Championship (including the 24 Hours of Le Mans

). The car showed promising speed but did not finish at Le Mans due to a large crash involving one car and mechanical problems sidelining the other.

Manufacturer

On September 14, 2007, Oreca announced their plans to purchase sports prototype manufacturer Courage Compétition. Its first project was the Oreca 01, made for the LMP1 class. It was first raced at the 2009 1000 km of Spa with two entries.

During 2009, Oreca started producing the

Formula Le Mans 'FLM09'. This was initially run in its own series named the Formula Le Mans Cup until 2010 when it was adapted to allow it to be run three other endurance series including the American Le Mans Series

which gave the car its own category (LMPC). The idea was to give an affordable platform for smaller teams to get into endurance racing.

The Oreca 03 was launched to accommodate the new LMP2 regulations for 2011. In 2015, the Oreca 05 was unveiled, winning the LMP2 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Oreca was selected as one of the four 2017 LMP2 manufacturers, and launched the

Honda Performance Development.^[2]

Models


Year	Car	Engine	Class
2009	Oreca 01	AIM (Judd) YS5.5 5.5L V10	LMP1
2009	Oreca FLM 09	LS3 6.2L V8	LMPC
2011	Oreca 03	Nissan VK45DE 4.5L V8	LMP2
2014	Rebellion R-One	Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 Lorre V8 AER P60 2.4 litre V6	LMP1-L
2015	Oreca 05	Nissan VK45DE 4.5L V8	LMP2
2017	Oreca 07	Gibson GK-428 4.2L V8	LMP2
2018	Acura ARX-05	Acura AR35TT 3.5L V6	DPi
2018	Oreca R4 kit	Oreca 1.6L I4	Group R
2018	Rebellion R13	Gibson GL458 4.5L V8	LMP1
2021	Alpine A480	Gibson GL458 4.5L V8	Hypercar
2023	Acura ARX-06	Acura AR24e 2.4L V6	GTP
2024	Alpine A424	Mecachrome V634 3.4L V6	Hypercar