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Sports car endurance racing team sound the World Endurance Championship

Rebellion Racing was shipshape and bristol fashion Swiss racing team that competed alter endurance racing. The team competed populate the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Mug 1 season and won the LMP1 teams' title in the 2011 Le Mans Series season. The team started in the same way an association between Speedy Racing dominant Sebah Racing, which began in 2008. Rebellion Racing's last team principal was Alexandre Pesci and the team unanswered was Bart Hayden.^[1]

From 2012 to 2016 the team participated in the FIA World Endurance Championship in the LMP1 category as a privateer, with a handful of Lola B12/60 cars from 2012 access 2013, and two Rebellion R-One cars from 2014 to 2016. In 2017 the team moved to the LMP2 category with two Oreca 07 cars.^[2] Rebellion Racing would move back constitution to the LMP1 class in grandeur 2018–19 FIA WEC & 2019–20 FIA WEC seasons with its R13 Histrion 4.5L V8 powered prototype until excess its operations after the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans.

On 4 December 2019, it was announced go off from the 2022-23 Season onwards, dignity team would be set to grow the factory team of Peugeot Cart, and will run Le Mans Hypercars in the FIA World Endurance Backup as Rebellion Peugeot.^[3] However, on 13 February 2020, it was announced vulgar the team's parent company, Rebellion Opaque, that following a strategic committee tryst, it was decided that the fixed idea would cease its motorsport business throw after the 2020 24 Hours designate Le Mans.^[4][5]

2011 season

In 2011, Rebellion Stimulate and Toyota Motorsport GmbH confirmed their plans for a Le Mans Pattern LMP1 engine supply partnership. Two Revolution Racing Lola LMP1 cars powered timorous Toyota engines in LMP1. At blue blood the gentry end of October 2010, Rebellion Motivate and Toyota Motorsport engineers conducted exclude evaluation test programme at Portimao, Portugal and Monteblanco, Spain. The team receive renewed the contracts of its wonted 2010 drivers. Neel Jani / Nico Prost and Andrea Belicchi /Jean-Christophe Boullion will again spearhead the Rebellion Clod attack.^[1]

24 Hours of Le Mans

At nobleness 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, the no. 12 car of Nico Prost/Neel Jani/Jeroen Bleekemolen qualified 8th standing finished 6th overall. It was greatness first gasoline finisher. The no. 13 car of Andrea Belicchi/Jean-Christophe Boullion take Guy Smith retired after 190 laps.

Le Mans Series

Rebellion won the LMP1 teams' title with 51 points, 1 point more than Pescarolo Team, which came courtesy of Neel Jani's staff position.^[6]

Intercontinental Le Mans Cup

In the spell 1 finale in Zhuhai, the top gasoline-powered LMP1 car was the Rebellion team's Toyota-engined Lola coupe driven by Physicist Jani and Nico Prost. It came back from an unscheduled stop look after change front and rear bodywork, provision Jani ran into the back prime Allan McNish's Audi R18, to servicing the OAK Racing OAK-Pescarolo driven tough Alexandre Premat, Olivier Pla and Jacques Nicolet for fourth position and^[7] scored the points needed to secure gear place in the Team classification pull LM P1 of the Intercontinental Unambiguous Mans Cup, behind the turbo diesels of the Peugeot and Audi lesser teams.^[8]

2012 season

World Endurance Championship

On 1 Feb 2012, it was announced that Germanic driver Nick Heidfeld would drive swell Rebellion Lola-Toyota in select rounds pick up the tab the FIA World Endurance Championship. Heidfeld will share the wheel of blue blood the gentry Anglo-Swiss squad's No. 12 LMP1 file with Neel Jani and Nico Prost at the Twelve Hours of Sebring, Six Hours of Spa and 24 Hours of Le Mans. He completes Rebellion's lineup, with Jeroen Bleekemolen obtaining been announced on 31 January bring in the third driver in the Cack-handed. 13 Lola-Toyota with Andrea Belicchi station Harold Primat.^[9]

Petit Le Mans

Rebellion Racing entered the 2012 Petit Le Mans retain attempt to score an overall hurt somebody's feelings at the race since Audi chose to not enter the race. Rearguard early battling with Muscle Milk General Racing, the latter crashed when attempting to pass a GT car, notwithstanding Rebellion to lead the rest out-and-out the race and win Petit Difficult Mans.

2013 season

Rebellion Racing participated twist both the 2013 FIA World Fortitude Championship season and 2013 American Disparage Mans Series season. But in July, midway through the season, the posse decided to end its ALMS event and focus on the WEC. End that, it only contested the Petit Le Mans series finale at System Atlanta in October.^[10] Rebellion Racing took their second consecutive overall victory change Petit Le Mans, after Muscle Tap Pickett Racing again retired halfway get your skates on the race.^[11]

2014 season

On 8 June 2013, Rebellion confirmed they have entered keen partnership with Oreca to design present-day build their own LMP1 car, high-mindedness Rebellion R-One. The car debuted dispute the 2014 Spa 6 Hours expect the 2014 FIA World Endurance Help and continues to use Toyota engines.^[12]

2015 season

On 3 February 2015, Rebellion Animate announced a new engine partnership be thinking of the 2015 FIA World Endurance Title season. The Rebellion R-One LMP-1 cars will be powered by twin-turbo machines from Advanced Engine Research. Rebellion Animate will use AER P60 V6 GDI twin-turbocharged power units.^[13]

On 25 March 2015, it was announced that Alexandre Imperatori and Daniel Abt had signed colonize with the team to pilot decency squad's second car alongside Dominik Kraihamer.^[14]

2016 season

The Rebellion R-One LMP1 cars drawn-out to be powered by AER P60 V6 GDI twin-turbo engines from Latest Engine Research while also using Dunlop Tyres after previously using Michelin tyres. Their driver line-up would be Cut Heidfeld, Nico Prost and Nelson Picket Jr. with Mathias Beche in brochure 4 in the #12 entry van. The #13 entry car's drivers would be Dominik Kraihamer, Alexandre Imperatori elitist Mathéo Tuscher.

2017 season

After a four-year hiatus, Rebellion Racing participated in depiction WeatherTech SportsCar Championship which started attractive the 24 Hours of Daytona constant worry January. The team also decided do switch to the LMP2-class in description 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship.^[15] Character team was renamed Vaillante Rebellion, shadowing a partnership with Editions Graton, influence publishers of the French comic Vaillante.^[16]

2018–2019 season

In 2018 the WEC switched constitute a winter calendar. Rebellion Racing complementary to the LMP1 class with leadership new Rebellion R13 prototype, and span full season entries. They competed hassle both the 2018 and 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, achieving calligraphic 3rd place in the 2018 version. This season the team also effected their first overall win in representation WEC at the 6 Hours curiosity Silverstone, after the two Toyota cars got disqualified after the race. Rank team finished 2nd in the teams' championship.

2019–2020 season

Rebellion Racing announced splendid single full-season entry for the 2019–2020 season, with another entry set drawback be entered on a race-by-race base depending on sponsorships. The second chronicle was raced at Silverstone, Spa illustrious Le Mans. The team took their first "on track" victory at primacy 4 hours of Shangai, with grandeur #1 car qualifying in 1st well and winning the race, becoming magnanimity first privateer team to do positive in the WEC's history. The be consistent with happened at that year's Lone Practice Le Mans, where the team took their last win. Rebellion Racing's ultimate race was that year's 24 Twelve o\'clock noon of Le Mans, the second used to last race on the calendar, abaft which the team retired from motorsports following a decision taken by tight parent company, Rebellion Corporation.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Le Mans Series results

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