Signatech
French motor racing team
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::summary French motor racing team ::
| name = FRA Signatech | logo =File:Signatech Logo.png
| founded = 1990 | base = Bourges, France | principal = Philippe Sinault | current series = FIA World Endurance Championship | former series = Formula 3 Euro Series French Formula Three FR 2.0 France European Le Mans Series European Formula 3 |current drivers = FRA Paul-Loup Chatin FRA Jules Gounon AUT Ferdinand Habsburg FRA Charles Milesi DEU Mick Schumacher
FRA Frédéric Makowiecki | driver titles = Formula 3 Euro Series: 2010: Edoardo Mortara European Le Mans Series: 2013: Pierre Ragues, Nelson Panciatici 2014: Paul-Loup Chatin, Nelson Panciatici, Oliver Webb | team titles = Formula 3 Euro Series: 2010 European Le Mans Series: 2013, 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship: 2016, 2018–19 Signatech, currently competing as the Alpine Endurance Team, is a French auto racing team and racing car constructor that competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Signatech has been a long-term partner for Alpine since 2013, and has been responsible for running their Le Mans Prototype race cars in the WEC, most notably in the LMP2 class and more recently stepping up to the Le Mans Hypercar class with Alpine's A424 sports prototype. Alpine purchased a stake in Signatech in 2024.
Racing history
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/AlpineEnduranceTeamLogo.jpeg" caption="Alpine Endurance Team Logo"] ::
The team won the FIA European Formula Three Cup in 1999 with Benoît Tréluyer. It won the French Formula Three Championship in 2000 with Jonathan Cochet as driver, who also won the European Cup and Masters of Formula 3 that year, and won the Korea Super Prix for the team in 2001. In 2002, Renaud Derlot won the European F3 Cup for the team.
In 2003, Signature won the team championship in the first Formula Renault V6 Eurocup, with Tristan Gommendy and Kosuke Matsuura as drivers. They moved from the defunct French F3 series to its replacement, the Formula 3 Euro Series, and Nicolas Lapierre and Fabio Carbone completed a 1–2 finish for the team at the prestigious Macau Grand Prix. Edoardo Mortara and Jean-Karl Vernay repeated this feat in 2009. The team began competing in the 2009 European Le Mans Series in the LMP1 category.
The 2010 season was an outstanding one for Signature in the F3 Euroseries with Edoardo Mortara and Marco Wittmann finishing first and second in the series, winning eight races between them, and also taking the team championship.
Signatech provided the chassis for the Formula Future Fiat, a junior formula racing series in Brazil held in 2010 and 2011.
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Le_Mans_2011_Signatech_Nissan.jpg" caption="Signatech Nissan at the [[2011 24 Hours of Le Mans"] ::
In 2011, in cooperation with the Nissan GT Academy, Signatech finished second in LMP2 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In 2012, Signature decided to pull out of the Formula 3 Euro Series, to concentrate on its involvement in sport car races.
The team finished tenth overall at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans using a Nissan-powered Oreca 03.
In 2013, Alpine partnered with Signatech to run an LMP2 car in the European Le Mans Series with French drivers Pierre Ragues and Nelson Panciatici. Signatech won the LMP2 Team's and Driver's championships.
In 2014, Signatech delivered chassis for the Formula 4 Sudamericana.
In 2015, Signatech, continuing its partnership with Alpine, returned to the FIA World Endurance Championship, winning the championship LMP2 category in 2016 and 2018–19. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Alpine,_GIMS_2018,Le_Grand-Saconnex(1X7A1670).jpg" caption="Alpine A110]] GT4 is built by Signatech for Alpine"] ::
In 2020, Signatech returned to the European Le Mans Series under the name of Richard Mille Racing Team. The team previously planned to run an all-female lineup of Tatiana Calderón, Katherine Legge and Sophia Flörsch, however, due to Legge's injury, she was then replaced by André Negrão for the first two rounds. Beitske Visser would then take over Legge's place for the rest of the season. The team would then join the LMP2 class of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship, with an all-female lineup of Tatiana Calderón, Beitske Visser and Sophia Flörsch. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/2022_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans_(52175971889).png" caption="Signatech's [[Alpine A480]] at the [[2022 24 Hours of Le Mans"] ::
In 2021, the team partnered again with Alpine, this time fielding a "grandfathered" Rebellion R13 in the Le Mans Hypercar class for the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship season, which finished third overall at the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team continued with this lineup in 2022. For 2023, Signatech returned to the LMP2 category with two Oreca 07s;
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Alpine_Endurance_Team_-Alpine_A424-36_(53815731028).jpg" caption="The No. 36 A424 being driven at the [[2024 24 Hours of Le Mans"] ::
They returned to the top class of the World Endurance Championship in 2024 with two Alpine A424s.The French manufacturer managed a fourth place in the standings, with the highlight being a third-place finish in the 6 Hours of Fuji.
Racing record
24 Hours of Le Mans results
::data[format=table] | Year | Entrant | No. | Car | Drivers | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | FRA Signature Plus | 12 | Courage-Oreca LC70E-Judd | FRA Didier André FRA Franck Mailleux FRA Pierre Ragues | LMP1 | 344 | 11th | 10th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signature Plus | 008 | Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 | BEL Vanina Ickx FRA Franck Mailleux FRA Pierre Ragues | LMP1 | 302 | DNF | DNF | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signatech Nissan | 26 | Oreca 03-Nissan | FRA Soheil Ayari FRA Franck Mailleux ESP Lucas Ordóñez | LMP2 | 320 | 9th | 2nd | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signatech Nissan | 23 | Oreca 03-Nissan | FRA Olivier Lombard FRA Franck Mailleux FRA Jordan Tresson | LMP2 | 340 | 16th | 9th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 26 | FRA Nelson Panciatici FRA Pierre Ragues RUS Roman Rusinov | 351 | 10th | 4th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signatech Alpine | 36 | Alpine A450-Nissan | FRA Tristan Gommendy FRA Nelson Panciatici FRA Pierre Ragues | LMP2 | 317 | 14th | 8th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signatech Alpine | 36 | Alpine A450b-Nissan | FRA Paul-Loup Chatin FRA Nelson Panciatici GBR Oliver Webb | LMP2 | 355 | 7th | 3rd | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signatech Alpine | 36 | Alpine A450b-Nissan | FRA Vincent Capillaire FRA Paul-Loup Chatin FRA Nelson Panciatici | LMP2 | 110 | DNF | DNF | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signatech Alpine | 36 | Alpine A460-Nissan | FRA Nicolas Lapierre USA Gustavo Menezes MCO Stéphane Richelmi | LMP2 | 357 | 5th | 1st | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signatech Alpine Matmut | 35 | Alpine A470-Gibson | BRA André Negrão FRA Nelson Panciatici FRA Pierre Ragues | LMP2 | 362 | 4th | 3rd | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 36 | FRA Romain Dumas USA Gustavo Menezes GBR Matt Rao | 351 | 10th | 8th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signatech Alpine Matmut | 36 | Alpine A470-Gibson | FRA Nicolas Lapierre BRA André Negrão FRA Pierre Thiriet | LMP2 | 367 | 5th | 1st | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signatech Alpine Matmut | 36 | Alpine A470-Gibson | FRA Nicolas Lapierre BRA André Negrão FRA Pierre Thiriet | LMP2 | 368 | 6th | 1st | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Signatech Alpine Elf | 36 | Alpine A470-Gibson | FRA Thomas Laurent BRA André Negrão FRA Pierre Ragues | LMP2 | 367 | 8th | 4th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Richard Mille Racing Team | 50 | Oreca 07-Gibson | COL Tatiana Calderón DEU Sophia Flörsch NLD Beitske Visser | 364 | 13th | 9th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Alpine Elf Matmut | 36 | Alpine A480-Gibson | FRA Nicolas Lapierre BRA André Negrão FRA Matthieu Vaxivière | Hypercar | 367 | 3rd | 3rd | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Richard Mille Racing Team | 1 | Oreca 07-Gibson | COL Tatiana Calderón DEU Sophia Flörsch NLD Beitske Visser | LMP2 | 74 | DNF | DNF | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Alpine Elf Team | 36 | Alpine A480-Gibson | FRA Nicolas Lapierre BRA André Negrão FRA Matthieu Vaxivière | Hypercar | 362 | 23rd | 5th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Richard Mille Racing Team | 1 | Oreca 07-Gibson | FRA Charles Milesi FRA Sébastien Ogier FRA Lilou Wadoux | LMP2 | 366 | 13th | 9th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Alpine Elf Team | 35 | Oreca 07-Gibson | GBR Olli Caldwell BRA André Negrão MEX Memo Rojas | LMP2 | 322 | 19th | 9th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 36 | FRA Julien Canal FRA Charles Milesi FRA Matthieu Vaxivière | 327 | 12th | 4th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Alpine Endurance Team | 35 | Alpine A424 | FRA Paul-Loup Chatin AUT Ferdinand Habsburg FRA Charles Milesi | Hypercar | 75 | DNF | DNF | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 36 | FRA Nicolas Lapierre DEU Mick Schumacher FRA Matthieu Vaxivière | 88 | DNF | DNF | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FRA Alpine Endurance Team | 35 | Alpine A424 | FRA Paul-Loup Chatin AUT Ferdinand Habsburg FRA Charles Milesi | Hypercar | 385 | 9th | 9th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 36 | FRA Jules Gounon FRA Frédéric Makowiecki DEU Mick Schumacher | 384 | 10th | 10th | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ::
Complete FIA World Endurance Championship Results
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- Championship ongoing.
Timeline
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| Current series/events | Former series |
|---|---|
| 24 Hours of Le Mans | 2009–present |
| FIA World Endurance Championship | 2012, 2015–present |
| French Formula Three Championship | 1993–2002 |
| French Formula Renault Championship | 2000, 2002 |
| Formula Renault V6 Eurocup | 2003 |
| Formula 3 Euro Series | 2003–2011 |
| Formula Renault 3.5 Series | 2008 |
| European Le Mans Series | 2009–2010, 2013–2014, 2020 |
| FIA Formula 3 European Championship | 2014–2015 |
| :: |
References
References
- "Alpine is gunning for Le Mans glory with its A424 Hypercar".
- (2024-09-25). "Alpine demonstrates long-term commitment to WEC, buying stake in Signatech".
- Lloyd, Daniel. (2020-01-29). "Signatech, Richard Mille Linked to All-Female LMP2 Entry".
- Lloyd, Daniel. (2021-01-20). "Richard Mille Racing Moves Up to WEC LMP2 Ranks".
- Dagys, John. (14 September 2020). "Alpine Confirms LMP1 Program – Sportscar365".
- "No Change For Alpine In 2022 Driver Squad {{!}} dailysportscar.com".
- Klein, Jamie. (9 June 2023). "Alpine launches A424 Beta LMDh car for 2024 WEC campaign". [[Autosport]].
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