# Signatech

Signatech, currently competing as the Alpine Endurance Team, is a French auto racing team and racing car constructor that competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Signatech has been a long-term partner for Alpine since 2013, and has been responsible for running their Le Mans Prototype race cars in the WEC, most notably in the LMP2 class and more recently stepping up to the Le Mans Hypercar class with Alpine's A424 sports prototype. Alpine purchased a stake in Signatech in 2024.

## Racing history

The team won the FIA European Formula Three Cup in 1999 with Benoît Tréluyer. It won the French Formula Three Championship in 2000 with Jonathan Cochet as driver, who also won the European Cup and Masters of Formula 3 that year, and won the Korea 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 first Formula Renault V6 Eurocup, with Tristan Gommendy and Kosuke Matsuura as drivers. They moved from the defunct French F3 series to its replacement, the Formula 3 Euro Series, and Nicolas Lapierre and Fabio Carbone completed a 1–2 finish for the team at the prestigious Macau Grand Prix. Edoardo Mortara and Jean-Karl Vernay repeated this feat in 2009. The team began competing in the 2009 European Le Mans Series in the LMP1 category.
The 2010 season was an outstanding one for Signature in the F3 Euroseries with Edoardo Mortara and Marco Wittmann finishing first and second in the series, winning eight races between them, and also taking the team championship.
Signatech provided the chassis for the Formula Future Fiat, a junior formula racing series in Brazil held in 2010 and 2011.
In 2011, in cooperation with the Nissan GT Academy, Signatech finished second in LMP2 at the 24 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 the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans using a Nissan-powered Oreca 03.
In 2013, Alpine partnered with Signatech to run an LMP2 car in the European Le Mans Series with French drivers Pierre Ragues and Nelson Panciatici. Signatech won the LMP2 Team's and Driver's championships.
In 2014, Signatech delivered chassis for the Formula 4 Sudamericana.
In 2015, Signatech, continuing its partnership with Alpine, returned to the FIA World Endurance Championship, winning the championship LMP2 category in 2016 and 2018–19.
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 of Tatiana Calderón, Katherine Legge and Sophia Flörsch, however, due to Legge's injury, she was then replaced by André Negrão for the first two rounds. Beitske Visser would then take over Legge's place for the rest of the season. 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.
In 2021, the team partnered again with Alpine, this time fielding a "grandfathered" Rebellion R13 in the Le Mans Hypercar class for the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship season, which finished third overall at the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team continued with this lineup in 2022. For 2023, Signatech returned to the LMP2 category with two Oreca 07s; they will return to the top class of the World Endurance Championship in 2024 with two Alpine A424s.

## Racing record
### 24 Hours of Le Mans results

| Year | Entrant | No. | Car | Drivers | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
| 2009 | Signature Plus | 12 | Courage-Oreca LC70E-Judd | Didier André Franck Mailleux Pierre Ragues | LMP1 | 344 | 11th | 10th |
| 2010 | Signature Plus | 008 | Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 | Vanina Ickx Franck Mailleux Pierre Ragues | LMP1 | 302 | DNF | DNF |
| 2011 | Signatech Nissan | 26 | Oreca 03-Nissan | Soheil Ayari Franck Mailleux Lucas Ordóñez | LMP2 | 320 | 9th | 2nd |
| 2012 | Signatech Nissan | 23 | Oreca 03-Nissan | Olivier Lombard Franck Mailleux Jordan Tresson | LMP2 | 340 | 16th | 9th |
| 2012 | Signatech Nissan | 26 | Oreca 03-Nissan | Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues Roman Rusinov | LMP2 | 351 | 10th | 4th |
| 2013 | Signatech Alpine | 36 | Alpine A450-Nissan | Tristan Gommendy Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues | LMP2 | 317 | 14th | 8th |
| 2014 | Signatech Alpine | 36 | Alpine A450b-Nissan | Paul-Loup Chatin Nelson Panciatici Oliver Webb | LMP2 | 355 | 7th | 3rd |
| 2015 | Signatech Alpine | 36 | Alpine A450b-Nissan | Vincent Capillaire Paul-Loup Chatin Nelson Panciatici | LMP2 | 110 | DNF | DNF |
| 2016 | Signatech Alpine | 36 | Alpine A460-Nissan | Nicolas Lapierre Gustavo Menezes Stéphane Richelmi | LMP2 | 357 | 5th | 1st |
| 2017 | Signatech Alpine Matmut | 35 | Alpine A470-Gibson | André Negrão Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues | LMP2 | 362 | 4th | 3rd |
| 2017 | Signatech Alpine Matmut | 36 | Alpine A470-Gibson | Romain Dumas Gustavo Menezes Matt Rao | LMP2 | 351 | 10th | 8th |
| 2018 | Signatech Alpine Matmut | 36 | Alpine A470-Gibson | Nicolas Lapierre André Negrão Pierre Thiriet | LMP2 | 367 | 5th | 1st |
| 2019 | Signatech Alpine Matmut | 36 | Alpine A470-Gibson | Nicolas Lapierre André Negrão Pierre Thiriet | LMP2 | 368 | 6th | 1st |
| 2020 | Signatech Alpine Elf | 36 | Alpine A470-Gibson | Thomas Laurent André Negrão Pierre Ragues | LMP2 | 367 | 8th | 4th |
| 2020 | Richard Mille Racing Team | 50 | Oreca 07-Gibson | Tatiana Calderón Sophia Flörsch Beitske Visser | LMP2 | 364 | 13th | 9th |
| 2021 | Alpine Elf Matmut | 36 | Alpine A480-Gibson | Nicolas Lapierre André Negrão Matthieu Vaxivière | Hypercar | 367 | 3rd | 3rd |
| 2021 | Richard Mille Racing Team | 1 | Oreca 07-Gibson | Tatiana Calderón Sophia Flörsch Beitske Visser | LMP2 | 74 | DNF | DNF |
| 2022 | Alpine Elf Team | 36 | Alpine A480-Gibson | Nicolas Lapierre André Negrão Matthieu Vaxivière | Hypercar | 362 | 23rd | 5th |
| 2022 | Richard Mille Racing Team | 1 | Oreca 07-Gibson | Charles Milesi Sébastien Ogier Lilou Wadoux | LMP2 | 366 | 13th | 9th |
| 2023 | Alpine Elf Team | 35 | Oreca 07-Gibson | Olli Caldwell André Negrão Memo Rojas | LMP2 | 322 | 19th | 9th |
| 2023 | Alpine Elf Team | 36 | Oreca 07-Gibson | Julien Canal Charles Milesi Matthieu Vaxivière | LMP2 | 327 | 12th | 4th |
| 2024 | Alpine Endurance Team | 35 | Alpine A424 | Paul-Loup Chatin Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi | Hypercar | 75 | DNF | DNF |
| 2024 | Alpine Endurance Team | 36 | Alpine A424 | Nicolas Lapierre Mick Schumacher Matthieu Vaxivière | Hypercar | 88 | DNF | DNF |

## Timeline

Current series/events :
| 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 |