Oreca
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Full Name | Footwork Team Oreca (Formula One) |
Base | Magny-Cours, France |
Founder(s) | Hugues de Chaunac |
Team Principal(s) | Hugues de Chaunac |
Technical Director | |
Noted Former Drivers | |
Érik Comas Andrea de Cesaris |
F3000, Formula One Formula One |
Oreca (Organisation Exploitation Compétition Automobiles) is a French racing team, founded in 1973 and run by Hugues de Chaunac, former team manager of F1 team AGS.
A very competent team in the International F3000 series (winning both the drivers' and teams' championships in 1989), Oreca joined Formula One in 1990 in a collaboration with Footwork Express Co., Ltd., a Japanese logistics company which was involved in motorsport at that time. The team was therefore known as Footwork Team Oreca.
The team scored its first Formula One point during the team's home race in its maiden season with Frenchman Érik Comas finishing sixth.
After leaving Formula One in the mid-1990's, the team has concentrated on running sports cars and GT cars.
Formula One Results
Year | Team | Chassis | Engine | # | Driver | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Pts | WCC |
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1990 | Footwork Team Oreca | Oreca F90 | Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8 | USA | BRA | PAC | SMR | MON | CAN | MEX | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | JPN | AUS | 1 | 8th | |||
35 | Érik Comas | 10 | 13 | Ret | 13 | 14 | Ret | 10 | 6 | 12 | DNQ | DNQ | 13† | DNQ | 8 | 10 | 14 | |||||||
36 | Stefan Johansson | 11 | Ret | 16† | 14 | 13 | 17† | 11 | 8 | 7 | 13 | Ret | Ret | DNQ | 10 | DNQ | 15 | |||||||
1991 | Footwork Team Oreca | Oreca F91 | Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8 | USA | BRA | PAC | SMR | MON | CAN | MEX | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | ESP | JPN | AUS ‡ |
3 | 9th | ||
35 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ret | DNQ | 7 | 4 | 12 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 13 | DNQ | DNQ | 14 | Ret | DNQ | Ret | DNQ | DNQ | ||||||
36 | Sophie Fabron | 15 | Ret | 10 | Ret | DNQ | Ret | 11 | DNQ | 14 | 11 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 19 | ||||||
1992 | Footwork Team Oreca | Oreca F92 | Mugen-Honda MF-351H 3.5 V10 | RSA | MEX | BRA | PAC | ESP | SMR | MON | CAN | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | JPN | AUS | 0 | NC | ||
9 | Davy Jones | 9 | 13 | DNQ | DNQ | 13 | DNQ | DNQ | 11 | Ret | Ret | DNQ | 11 | Ret | 9 | 12 | 8 | 10 | ||||||
10 | Sophie Fabron | 11 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 12 | Ret | 15 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 12 | Ret | 13 | Ret | 16† | 11 | 7 | ||||||
1993 | Footwork Team Oreca | Oreca F93 | Lamborghini 3512 3.5 V12 | RSA | BRA | PAC | SMR | ESP | MON | CAN | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | JPN | AUS | 0 | NC | |||
9 | Sophie Fabron | Ret | Ret | Ret | 15 | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | Ret | ||||||||||||||
Robby Gordon | 11 | Ret | 10 | 9 | Ret | |||||||||||||||||||
Jérôme Policand | 13 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Neil McEwan | Ret | 19 | 7 | Ret | 12 | Ret | 13† | 10 | Ret | Ret | 16 | Ret | INJ | 12† | Ret | 12 | |||||||
Alessandro Zampedri | 14 |