Signatech, a long-established French racing team and constructor, re-entered the European Le Mans Series in 2020 operating under the Richard Mille Racing Team name, reflecting a title partnership with the luxury Swiss watchmaker Richard Mille. The project carried a clear sporting and social mission: to place female racing drivers in a fully competitive LMP2 prototype at prestigious endurance events, rather than in a developmental or promotional context.
The original 2020 driver lineup planned by the team was an entirely female trio consisting of Tatiana Calderón, Katherine Legge, and Sophia Flörsch — three drivers with significant single-seater and sportscar experience between them. However, an injury to Legge prior to the season's opening rounds meant that André Negrão was called in as a replacement for the first two events. Beitske Visser subsequently stepped in to take Legge's seat for the remainder of the 2020 ELMS campaign, restoring the all-female configuration.
Following their ELMS program, the Richard Mille Racing Team joined the LMP2 class of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship season with an all-female lineup of Tatiana Calderón, Beitske Visser, and Sophia Flörsch. This marked the first time a fully female crew competed across a full FIA WEC season in the LMP2 category. The three drivers collectively brought experience from Formula 2, IndyCar, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, and European Le Mans Series competition, making the lineup formidable on sporting grounds as well as historically significant.
The Richard Mille Racing Team identity was one chapter within Signatech's longer history in endurance racing. The parent operation had previously won the LMP2 drivers' and teams' championships in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2016 and again in 2018–19, establishing the infrastructure and expertise that underpinned the all-female effort. Signatech's deep association with Alpine, which dated to a 2013 partnership in the ELMS, continued in parallel with the Richard Mille project: for the 2021 WEC season the team also ran a Rebellion R13 in the Le Mans Hypercar class in partnership with Alpine, finishing third overall at the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The Richard Mille Racing Team represented a high-profile commitment to competitive female participation at the top tier of prototype endurance racing. By fielding Calderón, Visser, Flörsch, and briefly Legge in fully funded, full-season programs rather than one-off wildcard entries, the project set a benchmark for how a manufacturer-aligned team could structure sustained opportunities for female drivers in a class where overall race pace and endurance management genuinely test all competitors equally. The initiative drew attention from within the motorsport industry as a model distinct from dedicated "women's series," situating its drivers in the mainstream grid alongside male professional crews.