Rebellion Racing

Switzerland Rebellion Racing
Founded 2010
Team principal(s) Alexandre Pesci
Current series FIA World Endurance Championship
Noted drivers France Nicolas Prost
Germany Nick Heidfeld
Switzerland Mathias Beche
Switzerland Alexandre Imperatori
Austria Dominik Kraihamer
Germany Daniel Abt
Rebellion Racing's two cars at the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Rebellion Racing's Lola B10/60 Toyota engined race car.
Rebellion Racing's driver Andrea Belicchi.

Rebellion Racing is a Swiss racing team that competes in endurance racing. The team competed in the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup season and won the LMP1 teams' title in the 2011 Le Mans Series season. The team started as an association between Speedy Racing and Sebah Racing, which began in 2008. Rebellion Racing's team principal is Alexandre Pesci and the team manager is Bart Hayden.[1]

2011 season

In 2011, Rebellion Racing and Toyota Motorsport GmbH confirmed their plans for a Le Mans Prototype LMP1 engine supply partnership. Two Rebellion Racing Lola LMP1 cars powered by Toyota engines in LMP1. At the end of October 2010, Rebellion Racing and Toyota Motorsport engineers conducted an evaluation test programme at Portimao, Portugal and Monteblanco, Spain. The team have renewed the contracts of its regular 2010 drivers. Neel Jani / Nicolas Prost and Andrea Belicchi /Jean-Christophe Boullion will again spearhead the Rebellion Racing attack.[1]

24 Hours of Le Mans

At the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, the no. 12 car of Nicolas Prost/Neel Jani/Jeroen Bleekemolen qualified 8th and finished 6th overall. It was the first gasoline finisher. The no. 13 car of Andrea Belicchi/Jean-Christophe Boullion and 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 pole position.[2]

Intercontinental Le Mans Cup

In the season finale in Zhuhai, the top gasoline-powered LMP1 car was the Rebellion team's Toyota-engined Lola coupe driven by Neel Jani and Nicolas Prost. It came back from an unscheduled stop to change front and rear bodywork, after Jani ran into the back of Allan McNish's Audi R18, to overhaul the OAK Racing OAK-Pescarolo driven by Alexandre Premat, Olivier Pla and Jacques Nicolet for fourth position and[3] scored the points needed to secure third place in the Team classification in LM P1 of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, behind the turbo diesels of the Peugeot and Audi factory teams.[4]

2012 season

World Endurance Championship

On 1 February 2012, it was announced that German driver Nick Heidfeld would drive a Rebellion Lola-Toyota in select rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Heidfeld will share the wheel of the Anglo-Swiss squad's No. 12 LMP1 entry with Neel Jani and Nicolas 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 having been announced on 31 January as the third driver in the No. 13 Lola-Toyota with Andrea Belicchi and Harold Primat.[5]

Petit Le Mans

Rebellion Racing entered the 2012 Petit Le Mans to attempt to score an overall victory at the race since Audi chose to not enter the race. After early battling with Muscle Milk Pickett Racing, the latter crashed when attempting to pass a GT car, allowing Rebellion to lead the rest of the race and win Petit Le Mans.

2013 season

Rebellion Racing participated in both the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship season and 2013 American Le Mans Series season. But in July, mid-way through the season, the team decided to end its ALMS programme and focus on the WEC. After that, it only contested the Petit Le Mans series finale at Road Atlanta in October.[6] Rebellion Racing took their second consecutive overall victory at Petit Le Mans, after Muscle Milk Pickett Racing again retired halfway through the race.[7]

2014 season

On 8 June 2013, Rebellion confirmed they have entered a partnership with Oreca to design and build their own LMP1 car, the Rebellion R-One. The car debuted at the 2014 Spa 6 Hours in the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship and continues to use Toyota engines.[8]

Year Nat. Entrant Class Nat. Drivers No. Rounds Points WEP
pos.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2014 Switzerland Rebellion Racing LMP1-L France
Germany
Switzerland
Nicolas Prost
Nick Heidfeld
Mathias Beche
12 SIL
1
SPA
1
LMN
1
COA
1
FUJ
2
BHR
1
SHA
2
SÃO
2
204 1st
Italy
Austria
Switzerland
Andrea Belicchi
Dominik Kraihamer
Fabio Leimer
13 SIL
DNF
SPA
DNF
LMN
DNF
COA
DNF
FUJ
1
BHR
2
SHA
1
SÃO
1
93 2nd

2015 season

On 3 February 2015, Rebellion Racing announced a new engine partnership for the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship season. The Rebellion R-One LMP-1 cars will be powered by twin-turbo engines from Advanced Engine Research. Rebellion Racing will use AER P60 V6 GDI twin-turbocharged power units.[9]

On 25 March 2015, it was announced that Alexandre Imperatori and Daniel Abt had signed up with the team to pilot the squad's second car alongside Dominik Kraihamer.[10] * Season still in progress

Year Nat. Entrant Class Nat. Drivers No. Rounds Points WEP
pos.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2015 Switzerland Rebellion Racing LMP1-L France
Germany
Switzerland
Nicolas Prost
Nick Heidfeld
Mathias Beche
12 SIL
SPA
LMN
2
NÜR
2
COA
3
FUJ
1
SHA
1
BHR
3
134 1st
Switzerland
Austria
Germany
Alexandre Imperatori
Dominik Kraihamer
Daniel Abt
13 SIL
SPA
LMN
1
NÜR
DNF
COA
2
FUJ
3
SHA
DNF
BHR
1
108 2nd

2016 Season

Year Nat. Entrant Class Nat. Drivers No. Rounds Points WEP
pos.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
2016 Switzerland Rebellion Racing
LMP1-L France
Germany
Brazil
Switzerland
Nicolas Prost
Nick Heidfeld
Nelson Piquet Jr.
Mathias Beche
12 SIL
SPA
LMN
NÜR
MEX
COA
FUJ
SHA
BHR
' '
Switzerland
Austria
Switzerland
Alexandre Imperatori
Dominik Kraihamer
Mathéo Tuscher
13 SIL
SPA
LMN
NÜR
MEX
COA
FUJ
SHA
BHR
' '

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Entrant No Car Drivers Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2008 Switzerland Speedy Racing Team
United Kingdom Sebah Automotive
33 Lola B08/80 Switzerland Steve Zacchia
Italy Andrea Belicchi
France Xavier Pompidou
LMP2 194 DNF DNF
Switzerland Speedy Racing Team 94 Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R Switzerland Andrea Chiesa
Switzerland Iradj Alexander
Switzerland Benjamin Leuenberger
GT2 72 DNF DNF
2009 Switzerland Speedy Racing Team
United Kingdom Sebah Automotive
13 Lola B08/60 Italy Andrea Belicchi
France Nicolas Prost
Switzerland Neel Jani
LMP1 342 14 12
33 Lola B08/80 Switzerland Benjamin Leuenberger
France Xavier Pompidou
United Kingdom Jonny Kane
LMP2 343 12 2
2010 Switzerland Rebellion Racing 12 Lola B10/60 France Nicolas Prost
Switzerland Neel Jani
United States Marco Andretti
LMP1 175 DNF DNF
13 Lola B10/60 France Jean-Christophe Boullion
Italy Andrea Belicchi
United Kingdom Guy Smith
LMP1 143 DNF DNF
2011 Switzerland Rebellion Racing 12 Lola B10/60 France Nicolas Prost
Switzerland Neel Jani
Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen
LMP1 338 6 6
13 Lola B10/60 Italy Andrea Belicchi
France Jean-Christophe Boullion
United Kingdom Guy Smith
LMP1 190 DNF DNF
2012 Switzerland Rebellion Racing 12 Lola B12/60 France Nicolas Prost
Germany Nick Heidfeld
Switzerland Neel Jani
LMP1 367 4 4
13 Lola B12/60 Italy Andrea Belicchi
Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen
Switzerland Harold Primat
LMP1 350 11 7
2013 Switzerland Rebellion Racing 12 Lola B12/60 France Nicolas Prost
Switzerland Neel Jani
Germany Nick Heidfeld
LMP1 275 39 7
13 Lola B12/60 Switzerland Mathias Beche
Italy Andrea Belicchi
China Congfu Cheng
LMP1 275 40 8
2014 Switzerland Rebellion Racing 12 Rebellion R-One France Nicolas Prost
Germany Nick Heidfeld
Switzerland Mathias Beche
LMP1-L 360 4 1
13 Rebellion R-One Italy Andrea Belicchi
Switzerland Fabio Leimer
Austria Dominik Kraihamer
LMP1-L 73 DNF DNF
2015 Switzerland Rebellion Racing 12 Rebellion R-One France Nicolas Prost
Germany Nick Heidfeld
Switzerland Mathias Beche
LMP1-L 330 23 2
13 Rebellion R-One Italy Andrea Belicchi
Germany Daniel Abt
Austria Dominik Kraihamer
LMP1-L 336 18 1

References

  1. 1 2 Lola-Toyota for Rebellion Racing in 2011 News & Media - Lola News. Friday, 3 December 2010.
  2. Le Mans Series: Pescarolo team claims LMP1 drivers' title in Portugal Autoweek. 26 September 2011.
  3. Peugeot wins ILMC finale in China Autoweek. 13 November 2011.
  4. Zhuhai 6 hours: Rebellion in top 3 of ILMC 2011 www.lemans.org. 14 November 2011.
  5. LE MANS: Heidfeld Confirmed At Rebellion Speedtv.com. 1 February 2012.
  6. Gary Watkins (23 July 2013). "Rebellion to shelve ALMS challenge". Racer.com.
  7. Smith, Steven Cole (11 November 2013). "Now It's Over". Autoweek: 76–77.
  8. R-ONE: Rebellion Racing to build an LMP1 car in partnership with Oreca News & Media - Rebellion News. 3 December 2010.
  9. "WEC: Rebellion Racing switches to AER turbo engine". Racer.com. 3 February 2015.
  10. "Rebellion LMP1 WEC squad signs Daniel Abt and Alexandre Imperatori". Autosport.com. 25 March 2015.

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