Signatech

Signatech Alpine
Founded	1990
Base	Bourges, France
Team principal(s)	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	Paul-Loup Chatin; Jules Gounon; Ferdinand Habsburg; Nicolas Lapierre; Charles Milesi; Mick Schumacher; Matthieu Vaxivière
Teams'; Championships	Formula 3 Euro Series:; 2010; European Le Mans Series:; 2013, 2014; FIA World Endurance Championship:; 2016, 2018–19
Drivers'; Championships	Formula 3 Euro Series:; 2010: Edoardo Mortara; European Le Mans Series:; 2013: Pierre Ragues, Nelson Panciatici; 2014: Paul-Loup Chatin, Nelson Panciatici, Oliver Webb

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.^[1] Alpine purchased a stake in Signatech in 2024.^[2]

Racing history

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.

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.

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5] The team continued with this lineup in 2022.^[6] For 2023, Signatech returned to the LMP2 category with two Oreca 07s; they will return to the top class of the World Endurance Championship in 2024 with two Alpine A424s.^[7]

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Entrant	No.	Car	Drivers	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2009	Signature Plus	12	Courage-Oreca LC70E-Judd	Didier André Franck Mailleux Pierre Ragues	LMP1	344	11th	10th
2010	Signature Plus	008	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	Vanina Ickx Franck Mailleux Pierre Ragues	LMP1	302	DNF	DNF
2011	Signatech Nissan	26	Oreca 03-Nissan	Soheil Ayari Franck Mailleux Lucas Ordóñez	LMP2	320	9th	2nd
2012	Signatech Nissan	23	Oreca 03-Nissan	Olivier Lombard Franck Mailleux Jordan Tresson	LMP2	340	16th	9th
2012	Signatech Nissan	26	Oreca 03-Nissan	Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues Roman Rusinov	LMP2	351	10th	4th
2013	Signatech Alpine	36	Alpine A450-Nissan	Tristan Gommendy Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues	LMP2	317	14th	8th
2014	Signatech Alpine	36	Alpine A450b-Nissan	Paul-Loup Chatin Nelson Panciatici Oliver Webb	LMP2	355	7th	3rd
2015	Signatech Alpine	36	Alpine A450b-Nissan	Vincent Capillaire Paul-Loup Chatin Nelson Panciatici	LMP2	110	DNF	DNF
2016	Signatech Alpine	36	Alpine A460-Nissan	Nicolas Lapierre Gustavo Menezes Stéphane Richelmi	LMP2	357	5th	1st
2017	Signatech Alpine Matmut	35	Alpine A470-Gibson	André Negrão Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues	LMP2	362	4th	3rd
2017	Signatech Alpine Matmut	36	Alpine A470-Gibson	Romain Dumas Gustavo Menezes Matt Rao	LMP2	351	10th	8th
2018	Signatech Alpine Matmut	36	Alpine A470-Gibson	Nicolas Lapierre André Negrão Pierre Thiriet	LMP2	367	5th	1st
2019	Signatech Alpine Matmut	36	Alpine A470-Gibson	Nicolas Lapierre André Negrão Pierre Thiriet	LMP2	368	6th	1st
2020	Signatech Alpine Elf	36	Alpine A470-Gibson	Thomas Laurent André Negrão Pierre Ragues	LMP2	367	8th	4th
2020	Richard Mille Racing Team	50	Oreca 07-Gibson	Tatiana Calderón Sophia Flörsch Beitske Visser	LMP2	364	13th	9th
2021	Alpine Elf Matmut	36	Alpine A480-Gibson	Nicolas Lapierre André Negrão Matthieu Vaxivière	Hypercar	367	3rd	3rd
2021	Richard Mille Racing Team	1	Oreca 07-Gibson	Tatiana Calderón Sophia Flörsch Beitske Visser	LMP2	74	DNF	DNF
2022	Alpine Elf Team	36	Alpine A480-Gibson	Nicolas Lapierre André Negrão Matthieu Vaxivière	Hypercar	362	23rd	5th
2022	Richard Mille Racing Team	1	Oreca 07-Gibson	Charles Milesi Sébastien Ogier Lilou Wadoux	LMP2	366	13th	9th
2023	Alpine Elf Team	35	Oreca 07-Gibson	Olli Caldwell André Negrão Memo Rojas	LMP2	322	19th	9th
2023	Alpine Elf Team	36	Oreca 07-Gibson	Julien Canal Charles Milesi Matthieu Vaxivière	LMP2	327	12th	4th
2024	Alpine Endurance Team	35	Alpine A424	Paul-Loup Chatin Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi	Hypercar	75	DNF	DNF
2024	Alpine Endurance Team	36	Alpine A424	Nicolas Lapierre Mick Schumacher Matthieu Vaxivière	Hypercar	88	DNF	DNF

Timeline

Current series/events
24 Hours of Le Mans	2009–present
FIA World Endurance Championship	2012, 2015–present
Former series
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

^ "Alpine is gunning for Le Mans glory with its A424 Hypercar". evo. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
^ "Alpine demonstrates long-term commitment to WEC, buying stake in Signatech". RACER. 2024-09-25. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
^ Lloyd, Daniel (2020-01-29). "Signatech, Richard Mille Linked to All-Female LMP2 Entry". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
^ Lloyd, Daniel (2021-01-20). "Richard Mille Racing Moves Up to WEC LMP2 Ranks". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
^ Dagys, John (14 September 2020). "Alpine Confirms LMP1 Program – Sportscar365". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
^ "No Change For Alpine In 2022 Driver Squad | dailysportscar.com". www.dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
^ Klein, Jamie (9 June 2023). "Alpine launches A424 Beta LMDh car for 2024 WEC campaign". Autosport. Retrieved 13 July 2023.

External links

Official website

Achievements
Preceded by ART Grand Prix	Formula 3 Euro Series Teams' Champion 2010	Succeeded by Prema Powerteam

[1] "Alpine is gunning for Le Mans glory with its A424 Hypercar". evo. Retrieved 2024-09-27.

[2] "Alpine demonstrates long-term commitment to WEC, buying stake in Signatech". RACER. 2024-09-25. Retrieved 2024-09-27.

[3] Lloyd, Daniel (2020-01-29). "Signatech, Richard Mille Linked to All-Female LMP2 Entry". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 2021-06-17.

[4] Lloyd, Daniel (2021-01-20). "Richard Mille Racing Moves Up to WEC LMP2 Ranks". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 2021-06-17.

[5] Dagys, John (14 September 2020). "Alpine Confirms LMP1 Program – Sportscar365". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 2021-01-18.

[6] "No Change For Alpine In 2022 Driver Squad | dailysportscar.com". www.dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 2022-03-10.

[7] Klein, Jamie (9 June 2023). "Alpine launches A424 Beta LMDh car for 2024 WEC campaign". Autosport. Retrieved 13 July 2023.

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