Course de Côte VHC du Mont Dore / Chambon sur Lac 2017

On scratch the winner of the VHC competition was this 1982 Van Diemen RF82 of Jean-Marc Debeaune.

The French Mountain Hillclimb Championship features a championship for historic competition vehicles (VHC or Véhicules Historiques de Competition).  It features cars from the sixties, seventies and eighies and everything from single seaters, sports cars and GT cars to touring cars.  There were the usual contenders at Mont Dore plus a few ones I hadn't seen before such as such as a beautiful 1969 F3 Techno.  Many of the cars are shown in this blog post in rough order of how fast they were in terms of scratch.

In second place on scratch was this 1975 Porsche 935 of Jean-Marie Almeras.

In third place was this 1975 Marcadier Proto driven by Gilles Cursoux.

In fourth place was ths Formula Renault March 75 piloted by Christian Bonvarlet.

The fifth placed Martini Mk75 of Roger-Serge Toupence.

The sixth placed 1984 BMW635 CSI of Charly Cauchois comes back from a run.

Michel Ritzenhaler was seventh on scratch in his 1977 Royale RP24

Fastest VHC lady was Viviane Bonnardel in her beautiful 1981 Volkswagen Scirocco.

In tenth place on scratch was Jean-Pierre Francois in this 1981 Porsche 930T

Fastest of the many Alpines was this 1975 A110 driven by Claude Provost.

Fourteenth on scratch was Daniel Louis piloting this Opel Commodore GSE.

Fifteenth was this 1800cc Alpine A110 VC driven by Jean-Claude Demessine.

The first main corner with the 1981 3 litre Porsche 911 SC of Guy Calbet.

The 1973 Alpine 1300S of Philippe Brebant heading up the hill to the Col de la Croix St Robert.

The 1965 Ford Lotus Cortina of Philippe Vernay returnin to the paddock.

The 1977 Simca 1000 Rallye 3 of Philippe Ginel.

Gérard Toral pressing on in his 1300cc Renault 8 Gordini.

The 1969 Techno F3 of Italian Emanuele Guglielminetti.

For more about the 1969 F3 Techno, click here.

Emanuele with his Techno in the paddock.

Another view of the F3 Techno.  I remember Ronnie Peterson ad others driving these cars.

Francois Durat in his Simca 1100 TI

The unique Axone 1600 FL of Jacky Bonnot.

Patrick Giboulet and his BMW.

Ford Mustang and VW Golf GTi in the centre of Mont Dore on Friday afternoon for the verifications.

For pictures of the European Hillclimb Championship contenders at Mont Dore in 2017, click here.

For pictures of the French Mountain Championship contenders at Mont Dore in 2017, click here.

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