Privateer entry · 24 Heures du Mans · 12–13 June 2027
APEXLINE is a twelve-person team taking one ORECA 07 to Le Mans. No parent brand, no customer program — a car, three drivers, and the same 13.626 km everyone else has to survive 350 times in a row.
Reduced motion is on — showing one captured lap instead of a live feed.
APX-71 is an ORECA 07 — the LMP2 workhorse that has finished more Le Mans laps than any other prototype of its era. Ours is chassis #07-142, bought used from a customer program, rebuilt over one winter in a rented workshop in Arnage. Every panel that leaves the truck has to come back.
Endurance racing splits a car three ways. Each driver hands over something they can't take back — the car, the position, the plan. Ours have shared a garage for two seasons and still argue about tire pressures.
Ex single-seater, found her ceiling in budgets rather than lap time. Does the qualifying run and the darkest stints, because traffic at 3 a.m. is a language and she speaks it. Holds the team's sim record by four tenths and will mention it.
Grew up twenty minutes from Arnage; first saw the race from a camping chair on the inside of Indianapolis. Takes the start because he is calmest in the mess of lap one, and drives the traffic-heavy evening stints where a clean pass saves more time than a fast lap.
Sold his logistics company; bought a race team the same month. Pays the bills, drives the daylight stints, and has one job on Sunday afternoon: bring it home. Slowest of the three and the only one who has never put it in the barriers.
A lap takes three and a half minutes. The race takes 350 of them. This is how one car and twelve people get from the first green flag to the last one — the plan, hour by hour.
Roche takes the start and a triple stint. Job one: survive lap one.
Roche out, Voss in. Fuel, tires, one wipe of the screen. Target: 23 seconds stationary.
Headlights on, brake discs glowing into Mulsanne corner. Pace drops one second; risk doesn't.
Track at 14 °C. Whitmore's double stint on hard compounds — steady laps while others gamble.
178 laps banked. Half the field has a story already; we want no story at all.
Sun comes up at the end of the straight. Traditionally the fastest — and sleepiest — hour.
Recovery at Indianapolis. Strategy window opens: short-fill now, or stay long and pray.
If APX-71 crosses it, everyone on this page gets everything they came for.
Le Mans is the most-watched motor race on earth, and the cameras love a privateer. Every lap gives the livery 3 minutes 31 seconds of screen-side time — pick where your name rides.