WEC: ORECA sales booming

After a Le Mans win and dominating runs in the WEC there has been an unsurprising uplift in interest in ORECA’s new for 2016, but legal in 2017 and beyond, 05 LMP2 coupe.

Early adopters Thiriet by TDS Racing and KCMG have already won races in the car’s debut year, with the Belgian team winning at Imola and being in the mix for the ELMS title and KCMG buying a pair of chassis and taking wins at Le Mans, the Nurburgring in the WEC taking a big points lead.

Prior to Le Mans, and to the announcement of the four approved chassis suppliers for LMP2 from 2017 that was it – but the picture now is transformed with cars currently under construction – believed to be for Dragonspeed and Signatech, with another car also on the build schedule for another current LMP2 team.

After that little come the two chassis for Jota Sport – Jota’s 2016 WEC racecar and a spare chassis – and three other “very serious prospects” together with several other interested parties.

All of these are believed to be either WEC or ELMS programs, with the U.S. market apparently waiting for 2017.

Originally on DailySportsCar.com