Bourges Allogny French Championship Autocross and Sprint Car

We made a rather spur of the minute decision to spend a short few hours at the championship autocross event in Allogny this weekend.   I must admit that I wish I had had time to spend the whole day there.  The racing was fun and close, plenty of sliding around and a great atmosphere.  Despite all the modern safety fencing, it was possible to find a few locations to take some good pictures.  Hope you enjoy them and if you get a chance do visit a French National Autocross event.

The start of the buggy final with smoke and dust pouring off the rear wheels

Aurelien Daumain in his Susuki engined Camatos buggy heads from the paddock to the start.

Action from an earlier Super Buggy heat

Thierry Ben Hassen leads a bunch in his Gembo Nissan Super Buggy

I particular wanted to see some of the Tourisme Cup cars as there were some Alpine Renault, Porsche and Lotus silhouettes in this class.   Like the buggies they also provided exciting racing.

Noam Lagarde leads the race in his Susuki engined Alpine Renault A110

Luc Franseret in his BMW engined Porsche

Very close racing between the midfield runners

Peugeot versus Lotus Honda battle

Perhaps the best racing of all came from the sprint cars.  We saw both the junior sprint car and sprint girl finals and both provided great entertainment.

The juniors head into the first corner…...

…..and  then around the infield section

Understeer and oversteer styles in the battle for third place

The sprint girls show that they mean business!

Tail out action from the girls

I have to say that this event has wetted my appetite for the Rallycross event at Dreux in a few weeks time.  Perhaps I'll see you there!

Noam's Alpine A110 provides the tailpiece