Before I joined ORECA in October 2021, my life was all about Formula 1. So although I knew ORECA as a team, from starting my career here in Le Castellet with Signature in Formula 3, I didn’t have a great deal of insight into the company beyond the fact that its chassis were dominating LMP2 since 2017. Until I started discussions with Hugues de Chaunac in mid-2021, I had no clue on what ORECA was like on the inside or what it would become today.
Two years on, we can say it’s a totally different company. The DNA is the same, but across the whole motorsport activity ORECA has expanded significantly and we’re now twice as many people. Whether Hugues anticipated it would be that big, I don’t know, but he was already clear from our first discussion that he would scale up from Ligue 1 to Champions League.
