10 Facts About Mecachrome

Mecachrome SAS is a precision engineering company based in France that operates in the aerospace, motor racing, energy and defence sectors.

Mecachrome are known most famously for the manufacture of Formula One engines, designed by Renault for Formula One teams including Williams and Benetton during the 1990s.

Mecachrome already worked with Airbus on its A320, A330, A380 and A400M aircraft.

In 2017, Mecachrome declared interest in providing a standardised "budget" engine for Formula One.

Since 1979 until present, Mecachrome has been involved with Renault Sport, the motorsport division of Renault.

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From 1983, Renault began to supply other teams with engines; Mecachrome being given the responsibility of preparing and assembling the engines for these customer teams such as Lotus-Renault in 1983 and Ligier-Renault in 1984.

Mecachrome-assembled Renault engines powered the Red Bull Racing Formula One team to the Constructors' Championship and Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel to the World Drivers' Championship in 2010,2011,2012 and 2013.

In 2017, Mecachrome partnered with Ginetta as an engine supplier for the G60-LT-P1 LMP1 Prototype, supplying the V634P1, a variant of the V634 F2 engine, which would be turbocharged by Van Der Lee Turbo Systems.

Mecachrome Motorsport responded to Ginetta's announcement soon afterwards, revealing that it intended to continue its LMP1 engine programme, although it has yet to find any customers to run the engine in any chassis since.

Ginetta technical director Ewan Baldry later responded to Mecachrome's claims, acknowledging that while the engine utilised at Le Mans was a first specification engine, the engine was underpowered and did not meet the contractually agreed performance targets.