Course de Côte du Mont Dore 2017, Championnat de France de la Montagne Production

The Renault Clio 4 Cup of Eric Peyrard making his ascent of Mont Dore.

The Production cars category of the French Mountain Hillclimb Championship always contains a nice selection of cars.  Everything from old sports cars of the seventies to modern Peugeots and Renaults to exotica like Lamboghinis and Porsches with a few Silhouette cars thrown in.   The Course de Cote du Mont Dore / Chambon sur Lac in August 2017 was no exception.  A number of the runners were also registered for the European Hillclimb Championship round and thus their photos can be found via the following link:

https://rouenlesafx.blogspot.fr/2017/08/fia-european-hillclimb-championship.html

Examples of the other runners can be seen below:

One of the many Mitjets making its ascent.  This is the Tork-Mitjet of Marc Basseres.

The stunning and unusual Volvo TC 10 of Pierre Beal

The Volvo TC10 Silhouette car in the paddock.

One of the first of the production cars up the course was Laurent Etie in his Peugeot 306 Maxi.

Marc Le Goff in his Simca R3 makes his first ascent on Saturday.

The Simca R3 waiting for a second run on Saturday afternoon.

Six time French Mountain Production Champion Nicolas Werver in his Porsche 997.

A Jidé waiting for its run.

Renaud Desmereau in his Jidé.  He was third in class FC3.

The Peugeot 205 Rallye of Philippe Quioc.

The Lamborghini Gallardo of Nicolas Caumon.

The top of the hill is still misty as one of the cars makes its ascent.

Anthony Dubois in his Porsche 997 Cup.

Flavian Sagot in his BMW M3

The Renault Clio 3 Cup of Laurent Lafosse.

The Mitjet of Jean-Michel Lestienne.

The Renault Clio Cup of Pascal Derre getting close to the armco.

Nice looking BMW Z3 M of Jean-Marc Tissot.

Lotus Exige returning down the hill.

The Opel Speedster of Serge Di Cioccio was second in his class.

Peugeot 205 Kit Car waiting for its Saturday afternoon run.

Laurent Etie in his Peugeot 306 Maxi just after the start.

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