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| Founded | 1990 |
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| Base | Bourges, France |
| Teamprincipal(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 ChatinJules Gounon Ferdinand HabsburgCharles Milesi Mick SchumacherFrédéric Makowiecki |
| 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 theAlpine Endurance Team, is a Frenchauto racing team and racing car constructor that competes in theFIA World Endurance Championship. Signatech has been a long-term partner forAlpine since 2013, and has been responsible for running theirLe Mans Prototype race cars in the WEC, most notably in theLMP2 class and more recently stepping up to theLe Mans Hypercar class with Alpine'sA424 sports prototype.[1] Alpine purchased a stake in Signatech in 2024.[2]
The team won theFIA European Formula Three Cup in 1999 withBenoît Tréluyer. It won theFrench Formula Three Championship in 2000 withJonathan Cochet as driver, who also won the European Cup andMasters of Formula 3 that year, and won theKorea 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 firstFormula Renault V6 Eurocup, withTristan Gommendy andKosuke Matsuura as drivers. They moved from the defunct French F3 series to its replacement, theFormula 3 Euro Series, andNicolas Lapierre andFabio Carbone completed a 1–2 finish for the team at the prestigiousMacau Grand Prix.Edoardo Mortara andJean-Karl Vernay repeated this feat in 2009. The team began competing in the 2009European Le Mans Series in theLMP1 category.
The 2010 season was an outstanding one for Signature in the F3 Euroseries with Edoardo Mortara andMarco Wittmann finishing first and second in the series, winning eight races between them, and also taking the team championship.
Signatech provided the chassis for theFormula Future Fiat, a junior formula racing series in Brazil held in 2010 and 2011.
In 2011, in cooperation with theNissan GT Academy, Signatech finished second in LMP2 at the24 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 the2012 24 Hours of Le Mans using aNissan-poweredOreca 03.
In 2013,Alpine partnered with Signatech to run an LMP2 car in the European Le Mans Series with French driversPierre Ragues andNelson Panciatici. Signatech won the LMP2 Team's and Driver's championships.
In 2014, Signatech delivered chassis for theFormula 4 Sudamericana.
In 2015, Signatech, continuing its partnership with Alpine, returned to theFIA World Endurance Championship, winning the championship LMP2 category in2016 and2018–19.
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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 ofTatiana Calderón,Katherine Legge andSophia Flörsch, however, due to Legge's injury, she was then replaced byAndré 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]
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In 2021, the team partnered again with Alpine, this time fielding a "grandfathered"Rebellion R13 in the Le Mans Hypercar class for the2021 FIA World Endurance Championship season, which finished third overall at the2021 24 Hours of Le Mans.[5] The team continued with this lineup in 2022.[6] For 2023, Signatech returned to the LMP2 category with twoOreca 07s;
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They returned to the top class of the World Endurance Championship in 2024 with twoAlpine A424s.[7]The French manufacturer managed a fourth place in the standings, with the highlight being a third-place finish in the 6 Hours of Fuji.
* Championship ongoing.
| Current series/events | |
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| 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 |
| Achievements | ||
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| Preceded by | Formula 3 Euro Series Teams' Champion 2010 | Succeeded by |
