Oreca
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ORECA is a French racing team and race car constructor, founded in 1973 and run by Hugues de Chaunac, former team manager of F1 team AGS. Oreca has had success in many areas of motorsport. Since the early 1990s the team has concentrated on running sports cars and GT cars.
An Audi R8 used by Oreca in 2005.
An Oreca 03-Nissan, raced by Boutsen Energy Racing at the 2011 6 Hours of Castellet.
Image: Team Oreca Oreca 01 2009 1000km of Okayama (Race 2)
Image: PLM12 52 PR1 Mathiasen LMPC Rudy Junco
Audi R8 (LMP)
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The Audi R8 is a Le Mans Prototype sports-prototype race car introduced in 2000 for sports car racing as a redevelopment of their Audi R8R and Audi R8C used in 1999. In its class, it is one of the most successful racing sports cars having won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005, five of the six years it competed in total. Its streak of Le Mans victories between 2000 and 2005 was broken only in 2003 by the Bentley Speed 8, another race car fielded that year by Volkswagen Group.
The #1 & #2 Audi R8 LMP1 cars racing in the 2005 Grand Prix of Atlanta
This R8, in a special crocodile livery, won the Race of a Thousand Years in Adelaide, Australia, in 2000 driven by Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello.
Audi R8 road car at the 2006 Paris Motor Show