Ligier JS P2

Onroak initially planned to develop a car for the Le Mans Prototype 1 category but cancelled these plans to concentrate on the LMP2 category.^[7] The design was seen by Onroak as marketable in North America where closed-cockpit designs, which were required for all LMP1 cars, were also prominent choices for LMP2s and Daytona Prototypes in the new United SportsCar Championship.^[6] The LMP1 design was therefore evolved into an LMP2 design with measures taken to assure the car met the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) cost limitations in LMP2. The car was designed to be able to utilize available LMP2 engines:
A flat-plane crankshaft version of a Nissan V8 aluminum DOHC 4-valve engine (VK45).^[2] Judd's naturally aspirated HK V8 (BMW S65 Variant),^[8] and Honda's HPD V6 double turbo engine;^[2] (HR28TT).^[9][10] A high downforce sprint design and a low downforce Le Mans setup are offered for the car.^[1]

Naming of the JS P2 came about through an alliance between Onroak and Guy Ligier's partnership of Équipe Ligier and Automobiles Martini. The JS P2 follows Ligier's naming scheme of his cars being named after French racing driver Jo Schlesser (JS). The partnership included Onroak taking over development of Ligier-Martini's Group CN car.^[6]

 

The JS P2 began initial testing in March 2014.^[11] The debut of the first JS P2s was set for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June, where the Ligier name would race for the first time since a Ligier JS2 had finished second overall in 1975.^[6] OAK would enter two cars, one backed by Nissan's drivers and engine while the other car featured three Chinese drivers and a Honda powerplant. The third car was purchased by privateers Thiriet by TDS Racing and also used a Nissan engine.^[12] The two Nissan JS P2 qualified well, with TDS's car on pole position and the first OAK car in third.^[13] All three cars finished the 24 hour endurance with TDS in second and OAK in fifth and seventh places in class.

Following Le Mans TDS Racing campaigned their Ligier in the remainder of the European Le Mans Series, but were unable to finish the three races in which they participated. OAK Racing meanwhile brought their Ligier to the United States for the two remaining rounds of the United SportsCar Championship, where Alex Brundle put the Honda-powered JS P2 on pole position on debut at Circuit of the Americas^[14] en route to a second-place finish. The Nissan-powered OAK car moved to the FIA World Endurance Championship where it earned five consecutive pole positions in the five remaining races as well as class victories at Fuji Speedway and Shanghai International Circuit.

In 2015 the American Krohn Racing team purchased a JS P2 for a partial season in the United SportsCar Championship and a full season in the European Le Mans Series, and will be the first team to utilize Judd power in the Ligier.^[15] Michael Shank Racing purchased a Honda-powered JS P2 for a full United SportsCar Championship campaign, and won pole position at the Rolex 24 at Daytona.^[16] In 2016, Extreme Speed Motorsports entered a JS P2 in the United Sportscar Championship, winning both the 2016 24 Hours of Daytona and the 2016 12 Hours of Sebring, with the JS P2 becoming the first car to defeat a Daytona Prototype at the 24 hours, as well as the team becoming the first to win the so-called "36 Hours of Florida" since 1998.^[17]

(key) Races in bold indicates pole position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap. Green background indicates second team entry; eligible only for Drivers' championship points.

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Drivers	No.	Rds.	Rounds									Pts.	Pos.
						1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
2014	G-Drive Racing	LMP2	Roman Rusinov   Olivier Pla   Julien Canal	26	4-8 4-8 4-8	SIL	SPA	LMS	COA 4	FUJ 1	SHA 1	BHR 4	SÃO Ret		137*	2nd*
	OAK Racing-Team Asia		David Cheng   Ho-Pin Tung   Adderly Fong	33	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS 7	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	SÃO		0	NC
	OAK Racing		Alex Brundle   Jann Mardenborough   Mark Shulzhitskiy	35	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS 5	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	SÃO		0	NC
	Thiriet by TDS Racing		Pierre Thiriet   Ludovic Badey   Tristan Gommendy	46	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS 2	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	SÃO		0	NC
2015	G-Drive Racing	LMP2	Roman Rusinov   Julien Canal   Sam Bird	26	All All All	SIL 1	SPA 10	LMS 3	NÜR 2	COA 1	FUJ 1	SHA 2	BHR 1		178	1st
			Gustavo Yacamán   Ricardo González   Pipo Derani	28	All All All	SIL 2	SPA 2	LMS 4	NÜR 3	COA 3	FUJ 3	SHA Ret	BHR 3		134	3rd
	Extreme Speed Motorsports		Scott Sharp   Ryan Dalziel   David Heinemeier Hansson	30	2-8 2-8 2-8	SIL	SPA 9	LMS 10	NÜR 6	COA 4	FUJ 4	SHA Ret	BHR 7		62	7th
			Ed Brown   Jon Fogarty   Johannes van Overbeek	31	2-8 2-8 2-8	SIL	SPA 8	LMS 7	NÜR 8	COA Ret	FUJ 7	SHA 5	BHR 8		62*	8th*
	OAK Racing		Chris Cumming   Kévin Estre   Laurens Vanthoor	34	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS Ret	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR		0	NC
			Jacques Nicolet   Jean-Marc Merlin   Erik Maris	35	1-3 1-3 1-3	SIL 5	SPA 7	LMS 11	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR		34	9th
	Krohn Racing		Tracy Krohn   Niclas Jönsson   João Barbosa	40	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS 12	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR		0	NC
2016	SO24! by Lombard Racing	LMP2	Vincent Capillaire   Erik Maris   Jonathan Coleman	22	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS 14	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	0	NC
	Panis-Barthez Compétition		Fabien Barthez   Timothé Buret   Paul-Loup Chatin	23	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS 8	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	0	NC
	Algarve Pro Racing		Michael Munemann   Chris Hoy   Andrea Pizzitola	25	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS 12	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	0	NC
	Extreme Speed Motorsports		Scott Sharp   Ed Brown   Johannes van Overbeek   Sean Gelael   Antonio Giovinazzi   Giedo van der Garde   Tom Blomqvist   Tom Dillmann	30	1-6 1-6 1-6 7-9 7-9 7, 9 8 9	SIL 9	SPA 7	LMS 11	NÜR 8	MEX 9	COA 7	FUJ 4	SHA 2	BHR 5	78	5th
			Pipo Derani   Ryan Dalziel   Chris Cumming	31	All All All	SIL 2	SPA 2	LMS 15	NÜR 3	MEX 3	COA 5	FUJ 5	SHA 5	BHR 4	116	4th
	Krohn Racing		Tracy Krohn   Niclas Jönsson   João Barbosa	40	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS 13	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	0	NC
	Greaves Motorsport		Memo Rojas   Julien Canal   Nathanaël Berthon	41	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS 6	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	0	NC
	RGR Sport by Morand		Filipe Albuquerque   Bruno Senna   Ricardo González	43	All All All	SIL 1	SPA 4	LMS 10	NÜR 2	MEX 1	COA 2	FUJ 2	SHA 3	BHR 2	169	2nd
	Michael Shank Racing		John Pew   Oswaldo Negri Jr.   Laurens Vanthoor	49	3 3 3	SIL	SPA	LMS 9	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	0	NC
Sources:[18][19][20][21]

^* Points were scored with the Morgan LMP2

^* Points were scored with the HPD ARX-03b

(key) Races in bold indicates pole position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap.

Complete European Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Drivers	No.	Rds.	Rounds						Pts.	Pos.
						1	2	3	4	5	6
2014	Thiriet by TDS Racing	LMP2	Ludovic Badey   Tristan Gommendy   Pierre Thiriet	46	All All All	SIL	IMO	RBR Ret	LEC Ret	EST Ret		35*	7th*
2015	Algarve Pro Racing	LMP2	Michael Munemann   Andrea Roda   James Winslow	25	3-5 3-5 3-5	SIL	IMO	RBR 10	LEC 8	EST 7		11	12th
	Krohn Racing		Niclas Jönsson   Tracy Krohn   Oswaldo Negri Jr.   Julien Canal   Olivier Pla	40	All All 1-2 3 4-5	SIL 4	IMO 5	RBR 5	LEC 5	EST 8		46	4th
2016	SO24! By Lombard Racing	LMP2	Vincent Capillaire   Jonathan Coleman   Olivier Lombard	22	1-2 1-2 1-2	SIL 3	IMO 11	RBR	LEC	SPA	EST	15.5	12th
	Panis Barthez Competition		Fabien Barthez   Timothé Buret   Paul-Loup Chatin	23	All All All	SIL 9	IMO 7	RBR 7	LEC 11	SPA 7	EST 7	27.5	8th
	Algarve Pro Racing		Michael Munemann   Parth Ghorpade   Chris Hoy   Jonathan Hirschi   Andrea Pizzitola   Andrea Roda	25	1-3, 5 1-2 1-2 3-5 3-5 4	SIL 10	IMO Ret	RBR 5	LEC 7	SPA 9	EST	19	9th
	IDEC Sport Racing		Dimitri Enjalbert   Patrice Lafargue   Paul Lafargue	28	1-2, 4-6 1-2, 4-6 1-2, 4-6	SIL 7	IMO Ret	RBR	LEC 10	SPA 8	EST 6	19	10th
	Krohn Racing		Niclas Jönsson   Björn Wirdheim   Tracy Krohn   Olivier Pla	40	All 1-2 1, 3-5 2-6	SIL 4	IMO 6	RBR 9	LEC 8	SPA 10	EST 4	39	6th
	Greaves Motorsport		Julien Canal   Memo Rojas   Kuba Giermaziak   Nathanaël Berthon	41	All All 1-2 3-6	SIL 8	IMO 8	RBR 6	LEC 6	SPA 4	EST Ret	36	7th
	Team WRT		Will Stevens   Dries Vanthoor   Laurens Vanthoor	47	5 5 5	SIL	IMO	RBR	LEC	SPA 2	EST	18	11th
Sources:[22][23][24][21]

^* Points were scored with the Morgan LMP2

(key) Races in bold indicates pole position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap.

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Drivers	No.	Rds.	Rounds											Pts.	Pos.
						1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
2014	OAK Racing	P	Gustavo Yacamán   Alex Brundle   Ho-Pin Tung	42	All 10-11 11	DAY	SEB	LBH	LGA	DET	WGL	MOS	IMS	ELK	COA 2	PET 9	309*	5th*
2015	Krohn Racing	P	Tracy Krohn   Niclas Jönsson   Olivier Pla   Alex Brundle	57	1-2 1-2 1-2 1	DAY 13	SEB 6	LBH	LGA	DET	WGL	MOS	ELK	COA	PET		45	11th
	Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian		Oswaldo Negri Jr.   John Pew   Matt McMurry   A. J. Allmendinger   Justin Wilson	60	All All 1, 10 1 2	DAY 5	SEB 13	LBH 6	LGA 3	DET 2	WGL 7	MOS 3	ELK 4	COA 4	PET 9		273	6th
2016	Tequila Patrón ESM	P	Pipo Derani   Scott Sharp   Johannes van Overbeek   Ed Brown	2	1-2, 6, 10 1-2, 6, 10 1-2, 6, 10 1-2	DAY 1	SEB 1	LBH	LGA	DET	WGL 9	MOS	ELK	COA	PET 2		128	9th
	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian		Oswaldo Negri Jr.   John Pew   Olivier Pla   A. J. Allmendinger   Katherine Legge	60	All 1-4, 6-10 1-2, 6, 10 1 5	DAY 11	SEB 7	LBH 7	LGA 1	DET 5	WGL 3	MOS 6	ELK 4	COA 6	PET 1		282	4th
Sources:[25][26][27][21]

^* Points were scored with the Morgan LMP2

(key) Races in bold indicates pole position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap.

Year	Entrant	Class	Drivers	No.	Rds.	Rounds				Pts.	Pos.
						1	2	3	4
2015-16	Algarve Pro Racing	LMP2	Dean Koutsoumidis   Michael Munemann   James Winslow	25	2-4 2-4 2-4	FUJ	SEP I 2	BUR 2	SEP II 3	53	2nd
2016-17	Algarve Pro Racing	LMP2	Tacksung Kim   Matt McMurry   Andrea Roda   Mark Patterson   Jonathan Hirschi   Michael Munemann	24	All 1 1 2-4 2 3-4	ZHU 2	FUJ 4	BUR 3	SEP 3	60	3rd
			Andrea Pizzitola   Michael Munemann   Nicky Catsburg   Andrea Roda   Matt McMurry   Aidan Read	25	All 1-2 1 2-4 3 4	ZHU 3	FUJ 3	BUR 2	SEP 1	76	1st
2017-18	ARC Bratislava	LMP2	Konstantīns Calko   Miroslav Konôpka   Rik Breukers   Gustavo Yacamán	4	All All 1-2 3	ZHU 3	FUJ 4	BUR 4	SEP 4	51	3rd
	Algarve Pro Racing		Ate de Jong   Dean Koutsoumidis   John Graham	25	All All 1, 3-4	ZHU 4	FUJ 4	BUR Ret	SEP Ret	20	6th
	Eurasia Motorsport		Alex Au   Keiko Ihara   Scott Andrews   Marko Asmer   Yoshiharu Mori   Nabil Jeffri   Jake Parsons	33	1 1 2 2,4 2 4 4	ZHU 4	FUJ Ret	BUR	SEP 3	28	5th
	BBT		Pipo Derani   Anthony Liu   Davide Rizzo	37	All All All	ZHU 2	FUJ 2	BUR 3	SEP 2	70	2nd
2018-19	Spirit of Race	LMP2	Pipo Derani   Côme Ledogar   Alexander West	8	1-2, 4 1-2, 4 1-2, 4	SHA 1	FUJ 6	CHA	SEP 5
	United Autosports		Phil Hanson   Paul di Resta	22	All All	SHA 2	FUJ 2	CHA 1	SEP 2	80	1st
	Algarve Pro Racing		Ate de Jong   Harrison Newey   Andrea Pizzitola	24	All All All	SHA Ret	FUJ 1	CHA 2	SEP 1	69	2nd
	Panis Barthez Competition		François Heriau   Matthieu Lahaye   Jean-Baptiste Lahaye	35	All All 1, 3-4	SHA 6	FUJ 4	CHA 3	SEP 3	50	4th
	ARC Bratislava	LMP2 Am	Darren Burke   Miroslav Konôpka   Kang Ling	4	All All All	SHA 2	FUJ 1	CHA 1	SEP 1	94	1st
	United Autosports		Patrick Byrne   Guy Cosmo   Salih Yoluç	23	All All All	SHA 1	FUJ 2	CHA 3	SEP Ret	60	2nd
	Algarve Pro Racing		Anders Fjordbach   Chris McMurry   Mark Patterson	25	All All All	SHA 3	FUJ 3	CHA 2	SEP Ret	49	3rd
2019-20	ARC Bratislava	LMP2 Am	Miro Konopka   Andreas Laskaratos   Kang Ling   Garnet Patterson	4	1-2 1-2 1 2	SHA Ret	BEN 3	SEP	CHA	16	4th
	Rick Ware Racing		Philippe Mulacek   Guy Cosmo   Anthony Lazzaro	25	2-4 2-4 2-4	SHA DNS	BEN 2	SEP Ret	CHA 1	45	2nd
			Mark Kvamme   Cody Ware   Gustas Grinbergas	52	1 All 2-4	SHA 2	BEN 1	SEP 1	CHA 2	86	1st
Source:[21]

 

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