The Latest Breaking News from ORECA

Rossi will drive an ORECA-Gibson 07 operated by WRT on 5 November, a day after the conclusion of the 2023 WEC season with the 8 Hours of Bahrain, with the aim of competing in the championship in the future.

Gibson has won the FIA tender to provide the engines for a five-year period from the beginning of the new rules cycle in 2026. The powerplant will be a 4.2-litre normally-aspirated V8, the same configuration as the spec GK428 unit it has supplied for the current P2 formula that began…

The #7 Penske Porsche Motorsport 963 of Matt Campbell started on pole and led the field to the green flag.

A bulletin has been issued by the technical delegates from WEC organisers the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest confirming the compliance of the six cars from which components were taken at post-race scrutineering after the centenary running of Le Mans on 10-11 June.

After scoring outright wins at Sebring and Monza with its A480 grandfathered LMP1 car in the Hypercar class last season, Alpine reverted to LMP2 in 2023 ahead of a return to the top class next year with the A424 LMDh car developed with ORECA.

Wayne Taylor Racing joined forces with his father Michael’s Andretti Autosport team this year to bolster its technical strength to run the complex Oreca-chassised, HPD-powered ARX-06 hybrid machine.

The move was announced by the 2019/20 P2 champion team in the wake of confirmation on Friday that there will be no P2 class in the world championship next season. 

The car was unveiled on Friday at Le Mans and is due to complete a demonstration lap of the circuit on Saturday morning with Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda driving.

The car was unveiled on Friday at Le Mans and follows a series of other models Toyota has created for the top-class of the WEC.