‘Turnkey’ endurance racing with Oreca

With 40 years of experience, Team Oreca has introduced a new concept for drivers wanting to go endurance racing: package; A turnkey package for a season at the wheel of a real Le Mans Prototype.To experience the highest level of endurance racing, it is now possible thanks to Oreca’s “Arrive and Drive” concept. In 2013, the Team Endurance Challenge will offer drives in the LMPC class of the European Le Mans Series. An option will also be available to participate in the Test Day 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The “Arrive and Drive” formula will welcome drivers from all walks of life – from juniors to gentlemen drivers – joining the Oreca team for the five events of the European Le Mans Series 2013. Drivers will be able to run within a team called Team Endurance Challenge. This season package will be offered at € 180,000 per driver for a two driver crew. Drivers will share the wheel of an Oreca FLM 09, a real Le Mans Prototype that combines performance and reliability. The winning team in this category will be rewarded with an invitation to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2014, while the best duo of Team Endurance Challenge will test in LM P2. What better preparation to move to a higher level!

Hugues de Chaunac, Groupe ORECA President: “With the Team Endurance Challenge, we are hoping to put our racing experience and our winning culture at the disposal of the drivers, while providing them with a high level of preparation and follow-up of the prototype with which they are racing. The ELMS is starting anew and we want to support this effort by shaking things up in the LM PC class. In addition to the usual feeder series role, we’re offering a turnkey concept at an affordable price for drivers who wish to focus on one thing : the track ! “

Pierre Fillon, Automobile Club de l’Ouest President: “This new initiative will no doubt facilitate drivers’ access to the kind of racing that endurance racing encompasses. These drivers will be magnificently rewarded since they will be offered, at the end of each year, a spot on the following year’s Le Mans 24 Hours grid ! The cars running in LM PC are the perfect vehicles to hone the skills needed in a discipline that, since 1923 and the creation of the 24 Hours of Le Mans by the ACO, is so dear to our Club. This concept will also reinforce the endurance pyramid that we’ve partially built, with continental series such as the European Le Mans Series, compétition leading to a natural progression to the FIA World Endurance Championship organised by the ACO, and reaching the summit : the 24 Hours of Le Mans. “