Stéphane Ortelli (born 30 March 1970) is a Monégasque professional racing driver with three world championship titles. He has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1998 with Allan McNish and Laurent Aïello and the Spa 24 Hours in 2003 with Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb. He's also won the GT1 Class at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 2005 with David Brabham and Darren Turner. Currently, he is an Emil Frey Racing driver competing and developing the Jaguar and Lexus GT racing cars in the Blancpain Endurance Series and the VLN series.

Stéphane Ortelli
NationalityMonaco Monégasque
Born (1970-03-30) 30 March 1970 (age 54)
Hyères, Var, France
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years1995 – 2002, 2004 – 2007, 2009 - 2011
TeamsLarbre Compétition
New Hardware Racing/Parr Motorsport
Roock Racing
Porsche AG
Audi Sport UK
Audi Sport Team Joest
Team Bentley
Pescarolo Sport
Freisinger Motorsport
Audi PlayStation Team Oreca
Aston Martin Racing
Team Oreca Matmut
AF Corse
Luxury Racing
Best finish1st (1998)
Class wins1 (1998)
Winning Porsche 911 GT1 #26 of the 24h of Le Mans 1998 in display at the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart.
The Audi R8 Oreca #4 at Spa in 2005
The Audi R8 #32 at Spa in 2011
Audi R8 LMS #2 at Spa in 2015

Career

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Monza Le Mans Series 2008 crash

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On 27 April 2008, during a Le Mans Series race at the Monza circuit, a mechanic issue caused his Courage car to slide and spin onto the grass. This in turn instigated a cartwheeling motion upon the vehicle, which resulted in most of the car's bodywork and all but one wheel being torn off before it came to rest on the opposite side of the track. It narrowly missed the tail of Allan McNish's Audi R10 which was in front. Ortelli sustained a broken ankle as a result.[2]

Career results

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24 Hours of Le Mans results

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Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1995   Larbre Compétition   Dominique Dupuy
  Emmanuel Collard
Porsche 911 GT2 Evo GT1 82 DNF DNF
1996   New Hardware Racing
  Parr Motorsport
  Andy Pilgrim
  Andrew Bagnall
Porsche 911 GT2 GT2 299 17th 4th
1997   Roock Racing   Allan McNish
  Karl Wendlinger
Porsche 911 GT1 GT1 8 DNF DNF
1998   Porsche AG   Laurent Aïello
  Allan McNish
Porsche 911 GT1-98 GT1 351 1st 1st
1999   Audi Sport UK Ltd.   Stefan Johansson
  Christian Abt
Audi R8C LMGTP 55 DNF DNF
2000   Audi Sport Team Joest   Laurent Aïello
  Allan McNish
Audi R8 LMP900 367 2nd 2nd
2001   Team Bentley   Martin Brundle
  Guy Smith
Bentley EXP Speed 8 LMGTP 56 DNF DNF
2002   Pescarolo Sport   Éric Hélary
  Ukyo Katayama
Courage C60-Peugeot LMP900 144 DNF DNF
2004   Freisinger Motorsport   Ralf Kelleners
  Romain Dumas
Porsche 911 GT3-RSR GT 321 13th 3rd
2005   Audi PlayStation Team Oreca   Franck Montagny
  Jean-Marc Gounon
Audi R8 LMP1 362 4th 4th
2006   Aston Martin Racing   Pedro Lamy
  Stéphane Sarrazin
Aston Martin DBR9 GT1 342 10th 5th
2007   Team Oreca   Soheil Ayari
  Nicolas Lapierre
Saleen S7-R GT1 318 16th 9th
2009   Team Oreca-Matmut AIM   Bruno Senna
  Tiago Monteiro
Oreca 01-AIM LMP1 219 DNF DNF
2011   Luxury Racing   Frédéric Makowiecki
  Jaime Melo
Ferrari 458 Italia GTC GTE
Pro
183 DNF DNF

Partial Porsche Supercup results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 DC Points
2002 Kadach Tuning + Service Porsche 996 GT3 ITA
7
ESP
1
AUT
3
MON
Ret
GER
7
GBR
5
GER
1
HUN
3
BEL
1
ITA
6
USA
3
USA
8
1st 164
2003 Walter Lechner Racing School Team Porsche 996 GT3 ITA ESP AUT MON
2
GER FRA
2
GBR
3
GER
20†
HUN
7
ITA
Ret
USA USA NC‡ 0‡
2005 Porsche AG Porsche 997 GT3 ITA ESP MON
2
GER USA USA FRA GBR GER HUN ITA BEL NC‡ 0‡

† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

‡ — Not eligible for points.

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Points
2005 Team Oreca PlayStation SEAT Toledo Cupra ITA
1
ITA
2
FRA
1
FRA
2
GBR
1
GBR
2
SMR
1
SMR
2
MEX
1
MEX
2
BEL
1
BEL
2
GER
1

6
GER
2

15
TUR
1

Ret
TUR
2

Ret
ESP
1

9
ESP
2

22
MAC
1
MAC
2
20th 3

FIA GT competition results

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Complete GT1 World Championship results

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Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pos Points
2012 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Audi NOG
QR

1
NOG
CR

1
ZOL
QR

12
ZOL
CR

6
NAV
QR

9
NAV
QR

10
SVK
QR

11
SVK
CR

6
ALG
QR

10
ALG
CR

6
SVK
QR

5
SVK
CR

5
MOS
QR

1
MOS
CR

4
NUR
QR

2
NUR
CR

6
DON
QR
DON
CR
5th 104

Complete FIA GT Series results

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Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pos. Points
2013 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Audi R8 LMS ultra Pro NOG
QR

16
NOG
CR

2
ZOL
QR

1
ZOL
CR

2
ZAN
QR

1
ZAN
CR

2
SVK
QR

2
SVK
CR

3
NAV
QR

7
NAV
CR

15
BAK
QR

2
BAK
CR

1
1st 132

Complete Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pos. Points
2014 G-Drive Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra Pro NOG
QR

4
NOG
CR

2
BRH
QR

Ret
BRH
CR

13
ZAN
QR

9
ZAN
CR

Ret
7th 54
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT SVK
QR

12
SVK
CR

Ret
ALG
QR

17
ALG
CR

3
ZOL
QR

23
ZOL
CR

10
BAK
QR

3
BAK
CR

4
2015 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Audi R8 LMS ultra Pro NOG
QR

1
NOG
CR

2
BRH
QR

11
BRH
CR

7
ZOL
QR

Ret
ZOL
CR

10
MOS
QR

9
MOS
CR

4
ALG
QR

15
ALG
CR

5
MIS
QR

5
MIS
CR

7
ZAN
QR

5
ZAN
CR

5
6th 76
2017 Emil Frey Lexus Racing Lexus RC F GT3 Pro MIS
QR
MIS
CR
BRH
QR
BRH
CR
ZOL
QR
ZOL
CR
HUN
QR
HUN
CR
NÜR
QR

22
NÜR
CR

21
NC 0
2018 Emil Frey Lexus Racing Lexus RC F GT3 Pro ZOL
1

14
ZOL
2

13
BRH
1

9
BRH
2

9
MIS
1

5
MIS
2

8
HUN
1
HUN
2
NÜR
1
NÜR
2
19th 10
2019 Saintéloc Racing Audi R8 LMS Pro-Am BRH
1

DNS
BRH
2

DNS
MIS
1

13
MIS
2

19
ZAN
1

21
ZAN
2

21
7th 40.5
Pro NÜR
1

16
NÜR
2

11
HUN
1

15
HUN
2

17
NC 0

References

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  1. ^ "FIA GT Championship — Driver Biography; Stephane Ortelli". FIA GT Championship. Archived from the original on 13 November 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  2. ^ Strang, Simon (27 April 2008). "Ortelli breaks ankle in horror crash". Autosport.com. Retrieved 6 May 2008.
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Sporting positions
Preceded by Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
1998
With: Laurent Aïello & Allan McNish
Succeeded by
Preceded by Porsche Supercup
Champion

2002
Succeeded by
Preceded by Blancpain Endurance Series
Champion

2012
With: Christopher Mies & Christopher Haase
Succeeded by
Preceded by
None
FIA GT Series
2013
With: Laurens Vanthoor
Succeeded by
Maximilian Götz
(Blancpain Sprint Series)