Inter Europol Competition

The maiden LMP3 campaign in the ELMS with Jakub Śmiechowski and Jens Petersen driving the Ligier JS P3 brought the team 10th place overall.

[16][17] Third season of Inter Europol Competition in the BOSS GP and the first one without Jakub Śmiechowski behind the wheel brought 8th place for the Dane Jens Renstrup, who drove a Dallara GP2/05.

[18] In their second year in the endurance racing Inter Europol Competition continued their effort in the European Le Mans Series, bringing to the field a single LMP3 car, Ligier JS P3 number 13.

[20] The team entered the V de V Endurance Series as well, claiming the championship with a car number 22 with Jakub Śmiechowski and Hendrik Still behind the wheel.

[21] Walter Steding, driving a Dallara GP2/05 for Inter Europol Competition in his first season, claimed 8th position in the overall classification of the BOSS GP.

[22] In 2018 Inter Europol Competition once again entered the LMP3 class of the European Le Mans Series, this time with two Ligier JS P3 cars.

[27] The new season saw Inter Europol Competition branching out into new territory of Asian Le Mans Series with Martin Hippe and Jakub Śmiechowski behind the wheel of a number 13 Ligier JS P3 car.

[29] The LMP2 campaign didn't bring good results and after frequent lineup changes Inter Europol Competition claimed 17th place in the overall classification.

[35] The cars were driven by John Corbett, Nathan Kumar, Mitchell Neilson and Danial Frost, as well as Mathias Beche, Jakub Śmiechowski and James Winslow respectively.

LMP2 34 car, the only Ligier on the grid, saw a major lineup overhaul with Rene Binder[37] and Matevos Isaakyan[38] joining Jakub Śmiechowski for the ELMS and Le Mans effort.

[40] The team appeared on the grid of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race for the second time, struggling with technical[41] and regulatory[42] issues, finishing 17th in class and 45th overall.

Inter Europol Competition wrapped the 2020 season up with two races of the IMSA SportsCar Championship, in which the team used the Oreca 07 prototype for the first time.

[44] With a single Oreca 07 the team contested the LMP2 class of World Endurance Championship, moving up there from European Le Mans Series.

[45][46] Hélio Castroneves was to drive for the team in 1000 Miles of Sebring as a substitute for van der Zande due to Dutchman's IMSA SportsCar Championship commitments, but the race has been cancelled.

"[52] The team finished the two WEC season-ending races at Bahrain in ninth[53] (after incidents such as a collision with a United Autosports car, having to make an extra stop due to a door failure, and a 4-minute penalty for a tire allocation infringement) and fifth,[54] allowing Inter Europol Competition to finish its debut season in the World Endurance Championship in 5th place.

A total of nine drivers drove a second Ligier, including a former Italian motorcycle road racer Mattia Pasini[61] and a Pole Mateusz Kaprzyk.

[63][64][65][66] For the 2022 season the team expanded their programme, which included two LMP2 entries in total - one in the World Endurance Championship and the other in the European Le Mans Series, as well as two LMP3 cars in the ELMS.

[67][68][69] The ELMS LMP2 car was driven by a Formula 1 test driver Pietro Fittipaldi, returning to endurance racing after a 2-year hiatus David Heinemeier Hansson and a Swiss Fabio Scherer.

LMP3 Ligier number 13 saw Charles Crews, Guilherme de Oliveira and Nico Pino behind the wheel, while Noam Abramczyk, James Dayson and Mateusz Kaprzyk drove the #14.

The WEC car struggled with maximum speed, which was partially resolved by the engine change hours before the race, and other lesser issues.

Car number 43 (loaned from the DragonSpeed team, as Oreca due to worldwide supply chain issues wasn't able to deliver the purchased car on time) has been climbing up the ranks up till early morning, when the ignition coil failure forced Heinemeier Hansson to come to the pits for repairs, which eliminated the crew from the podium contention.

The damage, originally resulting in a significant pace drop, soon proved to be terminal and eliminated the car from the race 12 minutes before the end of the season.

In the WEC Śmiechowski was joined by Fabio Scherer, moving up from the ELMS crew, and Albert Costa, former Lamborghini factory driver.

After being cared for by the team's physiotherapists, the Swiss maintained a good pace and spent more than eight hours behind the wheel of the Oreca 07, despite having to change his braking method and limping on one leg when getting in and out of the car.

[101][102] After a procedure that lasted more than a month, the race organisers officially confirmed the results on the basis of a report from the FIA and ACO technical delegates, who 'after deep analysis' found all cars - including the Polish team's Oreca - in compliance with their respective regulations.

In the LMP2 class, a gearbox failure in the first race proved to be the harbinger of the whole season, during which Aberdein, Andrade and Caldwell scored just one podium in the seven-team field.

In Barcelona, Bukhantsov and Koen scored the first podium in the team's short history of Le Mans Cup starts,[119] while the ELMS cars finished in the middle of the pack.

Victory at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, podiums at Watkins Glen and Indianapolis and overall consistent performance from Inter Europol by PR1/Mathiasen, with 7th at Road America being the worst result of the season, not only brought the Polish-American project the champions’ crown, but also an invitation for team’s bronze driver Nick Boulle to 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans – with Boulle intending to choose Inter Europol Competition as his team for the race.

Victory at the Paul Ricard turned out to be the only one of the season, but just as in IMSA consistency (7th similarly being worst result) was the deciding factor on the way to second position in overall classification for the informal captain of the #43 car Dillmann, as well as Lomko and Alvarez.

Second place in championship guaranteed Inter Europol double entry for the 2025 24h Le Mans, with an official invitation handed.

Wojciech Śmiechowski, team owner, with Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki in Inter Europol's factory in Małopole
Jakub Śmiechowski and Jens Petersen at the autograph session at the 2016 4 Hours of Estoril
Inter Europol Competition's Ligier JS P3 at the 2017 4 Hours of Silverstone
Martin Hippe and Jakub Śmiechowski in Ligier JS P3 won the 2018 4 Hours of Portimão, earning the title of the Vice Champions of the ELMS LMP3
Martin Hippe and Nigel Moore at the top of the podium of the 4 Hours of Barcelona 2019
Inter Europol Competition reached the finish line of the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, marking the first Polish entry in the history of the race
Inter Europol Competition's Oreca 07 at the 2020 Petit Le Mans
Inter Europol Competition organized a promotional event during Silesia Rally 2021, presenting their Ligier JS P320
The team fielded two cars in the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans, one of them being full-season WEC entry
A guest start in the new Prototype Cup Germany series resulted in a 2nd place for the team
The team recorded their first WEC podium during 2023 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps
Inter Europol Competition on their way to win the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans
Spaniard Albert Costa Balboa, signed for 2023 after termination of his contract with Lamborghini, was consistently the fastest driver of the team
Boulle, Dillmann and Śmiechowski scored 6th place at 12h Sebring
Alvarez, Dillmann and Lomko won the 4h of Le Castellet, team's first victory in the ELMS. The only victory of the season resulted in 2nd place in the overall classification
Inter Europol Competition was the runner up of the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans
Inter Europol Competition, in a cooperation with the American team PR1/Mathiasen, won the IMSA Sportscar Championship in their debut year