Category | Le Mans Prototype 2 | ||||||||||
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Constructor | Onroak Automotive | ||||||||||
Designer(s) | Nicolas Clémençon [1] | ||||||||||
Predecessor | Ligier JS P2 | ||||||||||
Technical specifications [2] [3] | |||||||||||
Chassis | Carbon fibre monocoque | ||||||||||
Suspension (front) | Double wishbones with pushrod and torque rod-activated dampers | ||||||||||
Suspension (rear) | Double wishbones with spring-activated dampers | ||||||||||
Length | 4,745 mm (186.8 in) | ||||||||||
Width | 1,900 mm (75 in) | ||||||||||
Height | 1,050 mm (41 in) | ||||||||||
Wheelbase | 3,010 mm (119 in) | ||||||||||
Engine | Gibson GK-428 4.2 litre V8 longitudinal mid-mounted configuration | ||||||||||
Transmission | Hewland TLS-200 6-speed sequential gearbox magnesium casing sequential manual transmission | ||||||||||
Power | 603 hp (450 kW) | ||||||||||
Weight | Appr. 930 kg (2,050 lb) | ||||||||||
Fuel | Various | ||||||||||
Lubricants | Various | ||||||||||
Tyres | Michelin, Dunlop, or Continental | ||||||||||
Competition history | |||||||||||
Notable entrants | Algarve Pro Racing EuroInternational IDEC Sport Racing Inter Europol Competition Larbre Compétition Panis Barthez Competition CEFC Manor TRS Racing PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Visit Florida Racing Tockwith Motorsports United Autosports ARC Bratislava RWR Eurasia CD Sport Sean Creech Motorsport | ||||||||||
Notable drivers | Tom Kimber-Smith José Gutiérrez Mike Guasch R. C. Enerson Will Owen Marco Bonanomi Kenton Koch Ryan Lewis Olivier Pla Nicholas Boulle David Ostella Julien Canal Marc Goossens Renger van der Zande René Rast Jonathan Bomarito Fernando Alonso Philip Hanson Lando Norris Paul di Resta Bruno Senna Hugo de Sadeleer Alex Brundle Sebastián Saavedra Gustavo Yacamán Roberto González Austin Dillon Sven Müller Cody Ware Salih Yoluç Fabien Barthez Timothé Buret Nathanaël Berthon Matt McMurry Andrea Pizzitola Andrea Roda Patrice Lafargue Paul Lafargue David Zollinger Paul-Loup Chatin Filipe Albuquerque Nigel Moore Wayne Boyd Will Stevens Tacksung Kim Mark Patterson Ate De Jong Erik Maris William Cavailhes Nicolas Minassian Aurélien Panis Paul di Resta Ryan Cullen René Binder Konstantin Tereshchenko Léonard Hoogenboom Stéphane Adler Dani Clos Léo Roussel Jakub Śmiechowski Adrien Tambay Lukas Dunner Sam Dejonghe Matevos Isaakyan Karun Chandhok Erwin Creed Romano Ricci Thomas Dagoneau Yoshiharu Mori Keiko Ihara Enzo Guibbert Gunnar Jeannette Nick Foster Roberto Merhi Nobuya Yamanaka Christophe d'Ansembourg Miro Konôpka Tom Jackson Darren Burke Oliver Webb Daniel Gaunt Masataka Yanagida Nick Cassidy Shane van Gisbergen Aidan Read John Corbett Nathan Kumar Mitchell Neilson Danial Frost James Winslow Neale Muston | ||||||||||
Debut | 2017 24 Hours of Daytona | ||||||||||
First win | 2017 4 Hours of Silverstone | ||||||||||
Last win | 2022 ESET Cup GT Sprint Race 2 | ||||||||||
Last event | 2024 12 Hours of Sebring | ||||||||||
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Teams' Championships | 0 | ||||||||||
Constructors' Championships | 0 | ||||||||||
Drivers' Championships | 0 |
The Ligier JS P217 is a Le Mans Prototype built by Onroak Automotive and named in a partnership with French racing driver Guy Ligier. The Ligier JS P217 was built to meet the 2017 FIA and ACO regulations for 2017 for the LMP2 category in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The car also meets the regulations for the International Motor Sports Association’s (IMSA) WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the Prototype class. It was active in both of these championship series as well as the European Le Mans Series [2] and Asian Le Mans Series. The prototype made its racing debut at the 2017 24 Hours of Daytona and its FIA World Endurance Championship debut at the 2017 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.
The Liger JS P217 was conceived in 2016 in preparation for the FIA and ACO's new regulation changes in 2017. Onroak Automotive built a brand new chassis from scratch and focused on improving the mechanics of the car from the Ligier JS P2. Onroak and technical partners focused on the air cooling of the engine radiators and brakes and cockpit air conditioning. The mechanical features of the car that were concentrated on was the implementation of a new axle, nut, and rim to lessen the time of tire changes, the efficiency of the axles, weight distribution, accessibility of mechanics at the front of the cockpit, aerodynamic efficiency, LMP1 style power steering, and a limited number of chassis pieces. The driver's comfort, space, controls accessibility, and visibility also was paid attention to as well. [2]
The car was unveiled at Spa-Francorchamps publicly in September 2016. It also performed tests at Magny-Cours in September 2016 and Daytona International Speedway in November 2016 for preparation for the 24 Hours of Daytona. [4]
A variation of the prototype, the Nissan Onroak DPi, also known as the Ligier Nissan DPi, was created for the IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Prototype class under the DPi regulations. The car was developed in partnership with Nissan and Nismo. The powerplant of the vehicle is a 3.8 litre V6 twin-turbo engine from the Nissan GT-R GT3. Other alterations from the P217 include a large front panel and revised side panels. [5] Onroak Automotive supplied Tequila Patrón ESM with two prototypes for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. [3] ESM ran the DPi until closing due to a lack of sponsorship in late 2018. [6] CORE Autosport would purchase the ESM DPis and run them for the 2019 season. The program would not continue due to the retirement of team owner Jon Bennett. [7]
Revealed in 2021, the Ligier JS PX is an unrestricted track-day special based on the JS P217. [8] Seemingly an evolution of the Onroak DPi, the JS PX utilizes a 3.8 liter V6 twin-turbo engine, yet developed to 825 hp. The chassis, suspension, and transmission are identical to the P217, though Ligier optimized ABS, TC, and ECU systems using input from Olivier Pla. [9] A similarly large front panel to that of the Nissan DPi is utilized, with an extended nose and a copycat element directly under it. The PX retains single canards on each side like the P217, in place of the DPi's dual-canard setup on each side. While the enlarged cooling duct from the DPi used to cool the NISMO VR38DETT is present, the side panels see simplification in the form of removal of a turning vane.
The car would be featured as the main protagonist's Le Mans entry in the 2023 film Gran Turismo , complete with a racing livery with PlayStation and NISMO sponsorship, further proving relevance to the DPi racecar. [10]
Results in bold indicate pole position. Results in italics indicate fastest lap.
Year | Entrant | Class | Drivers | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Points | Pos |
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SIL | SPA | 24H | NUR | MEX | COTA | FUJ | SHA | BHR | |||||||
2017 | Tockwith Motorsports | LMP2 | Nigel Moore | 34 | Ret | 9 | Ret | 0 | NC | ||||||
Philip Hanson | Ret | 9 | Ret | ||||||||||||
Karun Chandhok | Ret | 9 | |||||||||||||
No. | SPA | 24H | SIL | FUJ | SHA | SEB | SPA | 24H | Points | Pos | |||||
2018 - 2019 | Larbre Compétition | LMP2 | Erwin Creed | 50 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 85 | 5th | |
Romano Ricci | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | |||||||
Julien Canal | 6 | ||||||||||||||
Thomas Dagoneau | 6 | ||||||||||||||
Yoshiharu Mori | 6 | ||||||||||||||
Keiko Ihara | 5 | ||||||||||||||
Enzo Guibbert | 6 | ||||||||||||||
Gunnar Jeannette | 4 | ||||||||||||||
Nicholas Boulle | 7 | 4 | |||||||||||||
No. | SIL | FUJ | SHA | BHR | COTA | SPA | 24H | BHR | Points | Pos | |||||
2019 - 2020 | Eurasia Motorsport | LMP2 | Nick Foster | 35 | 8 | 14 | 0 | NC | |||||||
Roberto Merhi | 8 | 14 | |||||||||||||
Nobuya Yamanaka | 8 | 14 | |||||||||||||
Inter Europol Competition | René Binder | 34 | 17 | 0 | NC | ||||||||||
Matevos Isaakyan | 17 | ||||||||||||||
Jakub Śmiechowski | 17 | ||||||||||||||
EuroInternational | Christophe d'Ansembourg | 11 | Ret | 0 | NC | ||||||||||
Erik Maris | Ret | ||||||||||||||
Adrien Tambay | Ret | ||||||||||||||
No. | SPA | POR | MON | 24H | BHR | BHR | Points | Pos | |||||||
2021 | ARC Bratislava | LMP2 | Miro Konôpka | 44 | Ret | 11 | 11 | 2 | 11th | ||||||
Tom Jackson | Ret | 11 | |||||||||||||
Darren Burke | Ret | ||||||||||||||
Oliver Webb | 11 | 11 |
Results in bold indicate pole position. Results in italics indicate fastest lap.
Year | Entrant | Class | Drivers | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Points | Pos |
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SIL | MON | RBR | LEC | SPA | POR | |||||||
2017 | Panis Barthez Competition | LMP2 | Fabien Barthez | 23 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 41 | 7th |
Timothé Buret | 9 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | ||||||
Nathanaël Berthon | 9 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | |||||||
Algarve Pro Racing | Matt McMurry | 25 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | 11 | 4.5 | 13th | ||
Andrea Pizzitola | Ret | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | 11 | ||||||
Andrea Roda | Ret | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | |||||||
IDEC Sport Racing | Patrice Lafargue | 28 | 8 | 9 | Ret | 11 | 10 | 10 | 8.5 | 12th | ||
Paul Lafargue | 8 | 9 | Ret | 11 | 10 | 10 | ||||||
David Zollinger | 8 | |||||||||||
Olivier Pla | 9 | Ret | 11 | |||||||||
Paul-Loup Chatin | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||
United Autosports | Filipe Albuquerque | 32 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 98 | 2nd | ||
William Owen | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
Hugo de Sadeleer | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
Tockwith Motorsports | Philip Hanson | 34 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 12.5 | 10th | |||||
Nigel Moore | 5 | 11 | 9 | |||||||||
LEC | MON | RBR | SIL | SPA | POR | Points | Pos | |||||
2018 | United Autosports | LMP2 | Philip Hanson | 22 | 12 | 10 | 3 | Ret | 1 | 1 | 54 | 4th |
Bruno Senna | 12 | |||||||||||
Filipe Albuquerque | 10 | 3 | Ret | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Wayne Boyd | 32 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 23 | 10th | |||
William Owen | 9 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
Hugo de Sadeleer | 9 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
Panis Barthez Competition | Timothé Buret | 23 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 45.5 | 6th | ||
Julien Canal | 8 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
Will Stevens | 8 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
Algarve Pro Racing | Tacksung Kim | 25 | 16 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 3.25 | 18th | ||
Mark Patterson | 16 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
Ate De Jong | 16 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 10 | |||||||
Matt McMurry | 13 | |||||||||||
IDEC Sport Racing | Patrice Lafargue | 27 | Ret | 12 | 16 | 1.25 | 19th | |||||
Erik Maris | Ret | 12 | 16 | 14 | ||||||||
William Cavailhes | Ret | 12 | ||||||||||
Nicolas Minassian | 16 | 14 | ||||||||||
Aurélien Panis | 14 | |||||||||||
LEC | MON | CAT | SIL | SPA | POR | Points | Pos | |||||
2019 | United Autosports | LMP2 | Philip Hanson | 22 | 6 | 4 | 7 | Ret | 71 | 4th | ||
Paul di Resta | 6 | |||||||||||
Filipe Albuquerque | 4 | 7 | Ret | |||||||||
Alex Brundle | 32 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 37.5 | 8th | |||||
Ryan Cullen | 12 | 3 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||
William Owen | 3 | 8 | 8 | |||||||||
Panis Barthez Competition | René Binder | 23 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 19.5 | 11th | ||||
Julien Canal | 10 | 9 | 15 | 7 | ||||||||
Will Stevens | 10 | 9 | 15 | 7 | ||||||||
Timothé Buret | 24 | Ret | 7 | Ret | 5 | Ret | 8 | 20 | 10th | |||
Konstantin Tereshchenko | Ret | 7 | Ret | 5 | Ret | 8 | ||||||
Léonard Hoogenboom | Ret | 7 | Ret | |||||||||
IDEC Sport Racing | Stéphane Adler | 27 | Ret | 16 | 14 | 13 | Ret | 13 | 2 | 18th | ||
Erik Maris | Ret | 16 | Ret | |||||||||
Patrice Lafargue | Ret | 16 | 13 | 13 | ||||||||
William Cavailhes | 14 | 13 | Ret | 13 | ||||||||
Inter Europol Competition | Dani Clos | 34 | 15 | 13 | Ret | 2 | 17th | |||||
Léo Roussel | 15 | |||||||||||
Jakub Śmiechowski | 15 | 13 | Ret | 12 | 12 | Ret | ||||||
Adrien Tambay | Ret | 12 | ||||||||||
Lukas Dunner | 12 | |||||||||||
Sam Dejonghe | 12 | Ret | ||||||||||
Mathias Beche | 12 | Ret | ||||||||||
LEC | SPA | LEC | MON | POR | Points | Pos | ||||||
2020 | Inter Europol Competition | LMP2 | René Binder | 34 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 12 | Ret | 15.5 | 12th | |
Matevos Isaakyan | 7 | 11 | 6 | 12 | Ret | |||||||
Jakub Śmiechowski | 7 | 11 | 6 | 12 | Ret |
Results in bold indicate pole position. Results in italics indicate fastest lap.
Year | Entrant | Class | Drivers | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Points | Pos |
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SHA | BEN | SEP | CHA | |||||||
2019 - 2020 | Eurasia Motorsport | LMP2 | Daniel Gaunt | 1 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 4 | 13 | 7th |
Nobuya Yamanaka | Ret | 4 | ||||||||
Masataka Yanagida | Ret | Ret | ||||||||
Nick Cassidy | Ret | Ret | 4 | |||||||
Shane van Gisbergen | Ret | |||||||||
Nick Foster | 36 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 65 | 3rd | |||
Roberto Merhi | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
Aidan Read | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
Inter Europol Competition | John Corbett | 33 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 38 | 4th | ||
Nathan Kumar | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Mitchell Neilson | 5 | 4 | ||||||||
Danial Frost | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
Mathias Beche | 34 | 4 | Ret | 5 | 7 | 28 | 5th | |||
Jakub Śmiechowski | 4 | Ret | 5 | 7 | ||||||
James Winslow | 4 | Ret | 5 | 7 | ||||||
DUB 1 | DUB 2 | YMC 1 | YMC 2 | Points | Pos | |||||
2021 | EuroInternational - Ojets | LMP2 - Am | John Corbett | 11 | 2 | Ret | 18 | 2nd | ||
Neale Muston | 2 | Ret | ||||||||
DUB 1 | DUB 2 | YMC 1 | YMC 2 | Points | Pos | |||||
2022 | ARC Bratislava | LMP2 LMP2 Am | Miro Konôpka | 44 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 51 | 4th |
Neale Muston | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
John Corbett | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 63 | 3rd |
Results in bold indicate pole position. Results in italics indicate fastest lap.
Year | Entrant | Class | Drivers | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Points | Pos |
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DAY | SEB | LBH | AUS | BEL | WGL | MOS | ELK | LGA | ATL | ||||||||
2017 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Tom Kimber-Smith | 52 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 237 | 7th | |||||||||
José Gutiérrez | 9 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 10 | ||||||||||
Mike Guasch | 9 | 7 | |||||||||||||||
R. C. Enerson | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
Will Owen | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
Marco Bonanomi | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
Kenton Koch | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
Ryan Lewis | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
Olivier Pla | 4 | 7 | 7 | 10 | |||||||||||||
Nicholas Boulle | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
David Ostella | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
Julien Canal | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
VisitFlorida Racing | Marc Goossens | 90 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 233 | 8th | ||||||||||
Renger van der Zande | 5 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||||||
René Rast | |||||||||||||||||
Jonathan Bomarito | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
DAY | SEB | LBH | MOH | BEL | WGL | MOS | ELK | LGA | ATL | Points | Pos | ||||||
2018 | United Autosports | Fernando Alonso | 23 | 13 | 18 | 19th | |||||||||||
Philip Hanson | 13 | ||||||||||||||||
Lando Norris | 13 | ||||||||||||||||
Paul di Resta | 32 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 82 | 15th | |||||||||||
Bruno Senna | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Will Owen | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Hugo de Sadeleer | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Philip Hanson | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
Alex Brundle | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
AFS/PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports | Sebastián Saavedra | 52 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 211 | 12th | |||||
Gustavo Yacamán | 12 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 13 | |||||||||
Roberto González | 12 | 11 | |||||||||||||||
Nicholas Boulle | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
José Gutiérrez | |||||||||||||||||
Will Owen | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
DAY 1 | DAY 2 | SEB | MOH | BEL | WGL 1 | WGL 2 | ELK | LGA | LBH | ATL | Points | Pos | |||||
2021 | RWR Eurasia | LMP2 | Austin Dillon | 51 | 4 | 0 | NC | ||||||||||
Sven Müller | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Cody Ware | 8 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
Salih Yoluç | 8 | 4 |
Year | Series | Race | Circuit | Team | Specification |
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2017 | ELMS | 4 Hours of Silverstone | Silverstone Circuit | United Autosports | LMP2 |
ELMS | 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring | Red Bull Ring | United Autosports | LMP2 | |
IMSA | Continental Tire Road Race Showcase | Road America | Tequila Patron ESM | Nissan DPi | |
IMSA | America's Tire 250 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca | VisitFlorida Racing | LMP2 | |
IMSA | Motul Petit Le Mans | Road Atlanta | Tequila Patron ESM | Nissan DPi | |
2018 | IMSA | Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring | Sebring International Raceway | Tequila Patron ESM | Nissan DPi |
IMSA | Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix | WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca | Tequila Patron ESM | Nissan DPi | |
ELMS | 4 Hours of Spa | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | United Autosports | LMP2 | |
ELMS | 4 Hours of Portimao | Algarve International Circuit | United Autosports | LMP2 | |
2022 | ESET Cup | GT Sprint Race 1 | Slovakia Ring | ARC Bratislava | LMP2 |
ESET Cup | GT Sprint Race 2 | Slovakia Ring | ARC Bratislava | LMP2 |
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