their chances of taking an overall win despite being a competitive car. In LMP2, Courage's customer C65s would also claim the Le Mans Series team's championship in the hands of the Barazi-Epsilon squad. In the American Le Mans Series, Mazda's official factory effort used a C65 to finish 3rd place in their teams championship. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Pescarolo's C60s would take 2nd and 5th place overall, while Courage's factory LC70s would fail to finish. Miracle Motorsports and Barazi-Epsilon would both bring their C65s home as well. Oreca After 2007 Courage created the LC75 LMP2 chassis to replace the C65. Acura officially bought three for the American Le Mans Series, although they have extensively modified the bodywork and the cars have been re-homologated as the Acura ARX-01a. Other former C65 teams in the Le Mans Series also changed to the newer LC75. Courage ended their collaboration with Mugen Motorsports and utilized AER power in the factory cars. Courage announced a new Indian Le Mans Project, with the intention to bring Indian drivers to Le Mans and the Le Mans Series in association with the factory squad. This project never came to fruition. Pescarolo, forced to change their cars in order to conform to 2007 rules, continued to use their modified bodywork from the old C60, but changed the chassis as well. Thus their new cars, dubbed the Pescarolo 01, no longer bear any relation to Courage chassis, although the two teams continued to aid one another in development. On September 14, 2007, Oreca announced their plans to purchase Courage Compétition. Yves Courage will remain with the company, while Oreca will use Courage's engineering expertise to develop an all new Le Mans Prototype. Racing cars These are the designations of the chassis that Courage Compétition has built since its inception. The date listed is the year each chassis first competed. C01-Ford (1982) C02-Ford (1984) C12-Porsche (1985) C20-Porsche (1987) C22-Porsche (1988) C24S-Porsche (1990) C26S-Porsche (1991) C28S-Porsche (1992) C30LM-Porsche (1993) C32LM-Porsche (1994) C34-Porsche (1995) C36-Porsche (1996) C41-Chevrolet (1995) C41-Porsche (1996) C50-Porsche (1998) C51-Nissan (1998) C52-Nissan (1999) C52-Peugeot (2000) C60-Judd (2000) C60-Peugeot (2001) C65-JPX (2003) C65-AER (2005) C65-Judd (2005) LC70-Mugen (2006) LC70-AER (2007) LC75-AER (2007) References French auto racing teams French racecar constructors 24 Hours of Le Mans teams European Le Mans Series teams American Le Mans Series teams FIA Sportscar Championship entrants World Sportscar Championship teams Auto racing teams established