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| Founded | 2001 |
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| Founder(s) | Bob Riley Bill Riley |
| Base | Mooresville,North Carolina, United States |
| Teamprincipal(s) | Bill Riley |
| Current series | IMSA SportsCar Championship |
| Current drivers | IMSA SportsCar Championship: 63.  Mirko Bortolotti Romain Grosjean Daniil Kvyat Edoardo Mortara74.  Felipe Fraga Gar Robinson Josh BurdonFelipe Massa |
| Website | https://www.rileytech.com/ |
Riley Technologies LLC is an Americanauto racing constructor and team specializing in the design and manufacture of complete race cars, as well as prototype development for racing and manufacturing applications.
The team currently fields the No. 63Lamborghini SC63 in theGTP category and the No. 74Oreca 07 in theLMP2 category of theIMSA SportsCar Championship.
In 2001, Bob Riley and son Bill, formerly ofRiley & Scott, formed Riley Technologies. The company moved their headquarters toMooresville, North Carolina in late 2006.
Riley Technologies was the leading constructor of theDaytona Prototype chassis for theGrand-AmRolex Sports Car Series. The Riley chassis was dominant in terms of both numbers of cars on the grid and results.
Riley chassis have won seven24 Hours of Daytona races with different engines, the 2005 race was won by theSunTrust RacingPontiac-Riley and 2006, 2007, and 2008 victories went toChip Ganassi RacingLexus-powered Rileys. The 2009 race was won by a Brumos RacingPorsche-powered Riley. In the 2010 race, another Porsche-powered Mark XI from Action Express Racing won. The 2011 race was again won by Chip Ganassi Racing, this time with aBMW engine, and in 2015 after theUnited SportsCar Championship creation, with aFord engine.
When theUnited SportsCar Championship was created in 2014, Riley continued as Daytona Prototype supplier, with Gen3 rules adopted to make the cars competitive versus the former ALMS LMP2 cars. The company supplied the Ganassi, GAINSCO/Bob Stallings, Shank and Starworks teams. Ganassi became the only full-time team in 2015, and no full-time entry used Riley chassis in 2016.
In 2017, Riley became one of the four LMP2 and DPi chassis manufacturers with theRiley-Multimatic MkXXX. The car was developed in partnership withMultimatic. Multimatic would take charge over the carbon fiber tub, vehicular bodywork and aerodynamic aspects of the car, whilst Riley would design and manufacture the majority of the mechanical components on the Mk30, including the suspension and assembly of the car.[1][2]
On 15 June 2017, Multimatic revealed that it had taken the lead role in the Riley-Multimatic LMP2 programme, a departure from the initial shared lead, that had Riley leading the commercial aspects of the LMP2 programme, and Multimatic focusing on the DPi aspect of the programme.[3]
Riley developed theMazda RX-8 chassis forSpeedSource, that won the GT class in the 2008 race. Also unveiled in 2008 was theBMW M6 GT race car, and the GT2-classChevrolet Corvette Riley built and raced in the 2008American Le Mans Series.[4] The car also raced at the2009 Petit Le Mans, where it beat bothCorvette Racing factory cars in qualifying.
In 2012, theSRT Viper debuted at theAmerican Le Mans Series GT class, with driversDominik Farnbacher,Marc Goossens,Ryan Hunter-Reay,Tommy Kendall,Jonathan Bomarito andKuno Wittmer. In the 2013 ALMS, the team finished 3rd in the GT class championship. The car made its debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2013, where it finished eighth in class and 24th overall. In 2014, the team entered theIMSA SportsCar Championship GTLM class, winning the teams championship and driver's championship byKuno Wittmer. Following the end of the 2014 season, Chrysler discontinued the factory program bySRT Motorsports.
The Viper GT3-R was also jointly developed bySRT Motorsports and Riley Technologies. It competed in the IMSA GTD class, thePirelli World Challenge GT class, andDutch Supercar Challenge Super GT class.
In 2017, Riley competed in the IMSA GTD class with two customerMercedes-AMG GT GT3s. The #33 ofBen Keating andJeroen Bleekemolen was runner-up in the teams championship, whereas the #50 ofCooper MacNeil andGunnar Jeannette was 9th. In2018, Keating and Bleekemolen drove a single Mercedes-AMG GT for Riley, placing third in points. In2019, the duo finished 7th in the overall championship, and won the Endurance Cup.
Riley hadLawson Aschenbach andGar Robinson as drivers of their single Mercedes-AMG GT for the2020 IMSA WeatherTech Championship, resulting 7th in the GTD class overall standings.
In 2025, Riley expanded to two entries in the2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship. In addition to fielding their No. 74Oreca 07 in theLMP2 class, the team entered theGTP class as the service provider forLamborghini and theirLamborghini SC63.[5][6] The team took over the program fromIron Lynx following disputes between the Italian team and Lamborghini. Riley would run the No. 63 Lamborghini SC63 under theAutomobili Lamborghini Squadra Corse banner with Lamborghini factory driversMirko Bortolotti,Romain Grosjean,Daniil Kvyat, andEdoardo Mortara.
A derivative of the Riley Daytona Prototype chassis is also raced in theGT300 class ofSuperGT as theMooncraft Shiden.
In April 2008 Riley Technologies announced plans to build a track day car to meet the growing demand for high-performance vehicles for use at private track facilities. The newest Riley will utilize a mid-engine crate motor with over 500 horsepower (370 kW) and is designed to minimize operating costs normally associated with operating a race car.
Riley Technologies built theChevrolet Camaro GS.R that competed in theContinental Tire Sports Car Challenge in the early 2010s.
In 2019, Riley entered the IMSAMichelin Pilot Challenge with aMercedes-AMG GT4 with drivers Jim Cox and Dylan Murry, finishing 6th in points. The duo won the Daytona season opener withJeroen Bleekemolen as third driver.
Cox and Murry will continue with Riley in 2021, but switching to the LMP3 class of the IMSA WeatherTech Championship.