Oreca
French auto racing team
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| June 2023 | All 24 LMP2 cars in the 24 Hours of Le Mans were Oreca 07 chassis, highlighting the model's complete market takeover in the LMP2 class. |
| 2022 | The Alpine A480 (formerly Rebellion R13) continued to compete in the Hypercar class in its grandfathered configuration. |
| May 2022 | Chassis #100 (technically the 99th due to skipping #13) was delivered to Cool Racing, specifically prepared for the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans, with plans to eventually display the car in Oreca's factory showroom. |
| April 2022 | Oreca completed its confirmed production run, having produced over 90 chassis including 8 for the Acura ARX-05 DPi programme and 9 updates for the Oreca 05. |
| 2021 | The Rebellion R13 was rebadged as the Alpine A480 to continue racing in grandfathered condition in the Hypercar class. |
| 2021 | Wayne Taylor Racing and Meyer Shank Racing take over the Acura ARX-05 prototypes previously run by Team Penske and begin competing in the championship. |
| 2020 | Team Penske wins the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship title for the second consecutive year with the Acura ARX-05. |
| 2019 | Team Penske wins the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship title with the Acura ARX-05. |
| 2019 | Since this IMSA season, only three LMP2 entries have not been an Oreca 07, demonstrating the chassis's dominance in the racing category. |
| 2019 | Russian car manufacturer Aurus Motors partnered with G-Drive Racing to rebrand the Oreca 07 as the Aurus 01 for racing in the European Le Mans Series. |
| 2018 | G-Drive Racing continued to race the Oreca 07 prototype race car in competition. |
| 2018 | Team Penske begins competing with the Acura ARX-05 prototype in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Prototype class. |
| 2017 | G-Drive Racing competed in racing events using the Oreca 07 prototype race car. |
| 2017 | Alpine introduced the A470, a technically identical variant of the Oreca 07 chassis, to succeed the A460 in the FIA World Endurance Championship. |
| 2017 | Oreca built the Rebellion R13 sports prototype racing car for Rebellion Racing, designed to compete in the LMP1 class of endurance racing. |
| 2017 | Oreca 07 made its FIA World Endurance Championship debut at the 6 Hours of Silverstone. |
| January 2017 | Oreca 07 made its official race debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship opening round. |
| 2016 | Alpine won the LMP2 category in the FIA World Endurance Championship season with the predecessor model, the Alpine A460. |
| October 2016 | Oreca conducted the first factory shakedown test of the Oreca 07 prototype at Circuit Paul Ricard, marking the initial on-track testing of the new LMP2 race car. |
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