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The Alpine Endurance Team — operated by the French racing organisation Signatech — competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Signatech has been a long-term partner for Alpine since 2013 and is responsible for running Alpine's Le Mans Prototype race cars, most notably in the LMP2 class and more recently in the Le Mans Hypercar class with the Alpine A424 sports prototype. Alpine purchased a stake in Signatech in 2024.

Signatech's origins predate the endurance programme. The team won the FIA European Formula Three Cup in 1999 with Benoît Tréluyer, the French Formula Three Championship in 2000 with Jonathan Cochet — who also won the European Cup and Masters of Formula 3 that year — and the Korea Super Prix in 2001 with the same driver. In 2002 Renaud Derlot won the European F3 Cup for the team.

In 2003 Signatech won the team championship in the inaugural Formula Renault V6 Eurocup with Tristan Gommendy and Kosuke Matsuura. Moving from the defunct French F3 series to its replacement the Formula 3 Euro Series, Nicolas Lapierre and Fabio Carbone completed a 1–2 for the team at the Macau Grand Prix. Edoardo Mortara and Jean-Karl Vernay repeated that feat in 2009. The 2010 F3 Euro Series season was outstanding: Mortara and Marco Wittmann finished first and second respectively, winning eight races between them and taking the team championship. Signatech withdrew from the Formula 3 Euro Series in 2012 to concentrate on sportscar racing.

Signatech also provided chassis for the Formula Future Fiat junior series in Brazil in 2010 and 2011, and delivered chassis for the Formula 4 Sudamericana in 2014.

The team began competing in the 2009 European Le Mans Series in the LMP1 category. In 2011, in cooperation with the Nissan GT Academy, Signatech finished second in LMP2 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team finished tenth overall at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans using a Nissan-powered Oreca 03.

In 2013 Alpine partnered with Signatech to run an LMP2 car in the European Le Mans Series with French drivers Pierre Ragues and Nelson Panciatici. Signatech won both the LMP2 Teams' and Drivers' championships that season. Returning to the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2015, Signatech won the WEC LMP2 championship in 2016 and again in 2018–19.

In 2020 Signatech re-entered the European Le Mans Series under the name Richard Mille Racing Team with an originally planned all-female lineup of Tatiana Calderón, Katherine Legge, and Sophia Flörsch. Following Legge's injury, André Negrão replaced her for the first two rounds; Beitske Visser then took over for the remainder of the season. For the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship the team entered the LMP2 class with an all-female lineup of Calderón, Visser, and Flörsch.

In 2021 Signatech partnered again with Alpine, fielding a grandfathered Rebellion R13 in the Le Mans Hypercar class for the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship season; the car finished third overall at the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team continued with this lineup in 2022. For 2023 Signatech returned to the LMP2 category with two Oreca 07s.

The team returned to the top class of the World Endurance Championship in 2024, running two Alpine A424s. Alpine finished fourth in the standings, with a third-place finish at the 6 Hours of Fuji as the season highlight.

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