Stéphane Ortelli

Monegasque racing driver

Stéphane Ortelli (born 30 March 1970 in Hyères, Var, France) is a Monégasque professional racing driver with three world championship titles. He has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 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.

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.

Year Team Co Drivers Car Class Laps 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 GTEPro 183 DNF DNF

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 NOGQR NOGCR ZOLQR ZOLCR ZANQR ZANCR SVKQR SVKCR NAVQR NAVCR BAKQR BAKCR 1st 132