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#1 HistoryFan

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Posted 17 December 2012 - 11:18

Hugues de Chaunac is owner of the ORECA team. But what is his story in racing?

- He was a racing driver of his own (any details about that)
- He founded the Oreca racing team. It won several times the French F3 championship, was especially involved in sports car racing (as it is today) and was also involved in F2. I heard that Ecurie Elf (Laffite was F2 champion with Ecurie Elf in 1972 was the ORECA team. Is that right?).
- In 1990 he was team manager at AGS for a few months. Why? How came that?
- were there never plans about entering F1 with Oreca?
- He should be team principal at the Talbot F1 team which was planed for 1981 (buying Brabham)

More details about him?

Edited by HistoryFan, 17 December 2012 - 11:19.


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Posted 17 December 2012 - 12:46

Hugues de Chaunac is owner of the ORECA team. But what is his story in racing?

- He was a racing driver of his own (any details about that)
- He founded the Oreca racing team. It won several times the French F3 championship, was especially involved in sports car racing (as it is today) and was also involved in F2. I heard that Ecurie Elf (Laffite was F2 champion with Ecurie Elf in 1972 was the ORECA team. Is that right?).
- In 1990 he was team manager at AGS for a few months. Why? How came that?
- were there never plans about entering F1 with Oreca?
- He should be team principal at the Talbot F1 team which was planed for 1981 (buying Brabham)

More details about him?


HistoryFan, Laffite won the F.2 championship back in 1975, with a BMW-powered Martini. De Chaunac was involved in it, as well as in the same manufacturer F.1 project (1978, Renè Arnoux). Don't know exactly when Oreca started with that name, though :)


#3 HistoryFan

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Posted 18 December 2012 - 15:36

Thank you very much, very interesting!

#4 T54

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Posted 19 December 2012 - 22:49

Hughes de Chaunac was partner with Tico Martini in the Martini racing cars. Oreca was founded I believe to offer an easier way to market the cars and spare parts. Oreca then added more product lines not manufactured in house. This was in 1973.

#5 HistoryFan

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Posted 31 January 2013 - 21:30

Martini Cars was sold to Guy Ligier in 2004. What's now with that stuff?