2020 Course de Côte du Mont Dore - F2000 Touring Cars

 

On the Saturday, Christian Boullenger was the fastest F2000 driver in this Renault Clio RS.

F2000 is a group for older touring cars and rally cars that are no longer homologated into Groups A or N.  They are allowed certain reasonably wide modifications and can have wider tyres but are limited to 2 litres.   There is a group for them in the French hillclimb championship and you will see them at almost every Course de Côte in France. Sometime the same cars appear in both rallies and hillclimbs.  Here is a selection that were at Mont Dore or the opening 2020 French National Championship round (CFM).

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Laurent Etie and his second placed Peugeot 306 Maxi.

The third placed F2000 car of Florian Bartare - a Renault Clio.

The Citroën AX GTi of Gilbert Larguier.

Olivier Goury and his Peugeot 206 S16

David Savignat and his Peugeot 205 GTi.

The Renault Clio Williams of Frederic Pougnet.

David Guillermin in a Citroen AX GTi

The Peugeot 205 GTi of Guillaume Bassin

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Laurent Etie heading up the Mountain in a Peugeot 306 Maxi

2020 Course de Côte du Mont Dore - Some other Sports Cars

 

The old Grac MT145 of Jean-Yves Dorée

I have just noticed that I missed posting any pictures of a few rather nice sports cars that appeared at the Course de Côte du Mont Dore in August,  So here they are!   A couple of CNF/1 cars and two CM cars.

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Olivier Cambon in his Funyo B4.

The Jema 650 LPCM of Gabriel Baillou.   Never seen a Jema like this before!

The Jema B10 of Frederic Barbiny

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The Funyo dipped below 3 minutes on it's Saturday run.

2020 Course de Côte du Mont Dore - Group A / FA Touring Cars

Noel Joubert in his Renault Megane DCi FA/4.

The Groupe A and FA are the fastest group of modern touring cars that compere in French hillclimbing.  The are allowed more modifications that Group N.  The Group A cars are those that are currently homologated whereas the FA cars are similar but are no longer homologated.   Cars such as the Seat Leon Super Copa cars are surprisingly quick and are as quick as some of the GT cars.  The classes depend on cubic capacity with the lower numbers being the smaller capacity cars.  Any positions in group or class are from the Saturday runs (August 8th, 2020)  when I was photographing these cars.  On the tricky 5.075 kilometre course at Mont-Dore Chamon-sur-Lac the fastest Group A Touring Car car recorded a time of just under 2 minutes 49 seconds on Saturday!  This was less than 12 seconds slower than the McLaren MP4 12C that won the GTTS class.

The winner of Groupe A/FA on Saturday was Francis Dosieres in a Seat leon Super Copa Mk3.  A/5.

The Renault Clio 4 Cup of Stephane Auriacombe was winner of class A/4.

Nicolas Granier in his Renault 4 Cup. A/4.

The Seat Leon Super Copa Mk3 of Abel Sahoui.. A/5.

The Peugeot 206 RC of Bastien Combelle.  FA/3.

Antoine Uny and his Seat Leon Super Copa Mk2 was runner up in the group and class A/5.

The Renault Clio 3 Cup of Philibert Michy.  A/3.

The Renault Clio 3 Cup of Maxence Passaquet.  A/3.

Bruno Milliet in a Renault Clio 4 Cup.  A/4.

The Renault Clio 4 Cup of Vivien Tonon. A/4.

Simon Richard and his Peugeot 308 Cup.  A/4.

The Peugeot 206 S16 of Patrick Marchal.  A/3.

Elodie Lafosse and her Peugeot 106 winner of FA/1.

A light touch with the barrier for the Seat Leon Super Copa of Alain Perraud.  A/5.

The Renault Clio 2 Cup of Maxime Dojat won class A/3.

Michel Bineau in his Nissan Almera.  A/3.

The Renault Clio 3 Cup of Jimmy Erhmann.  A/3.

Michel Burgunder and his Seat Leon Super Copa.  A/5.

The Renault Clio 2 Cup of Nicolas Vidon.  A/3.

Jerome Janny and his Seat Leon Super Copa was third in the group and class A/5.

The Renault Clio 3 Cup of Philibert Michy.  A/3.

Thibault Moncomble and his Peugeot Saxo VTA won class FA 2.

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Maxime Chebbak in his Renault Clio 4 Cup with the mountain backdrop.  A/4.

The Renault 4 Cup of Thierry Tierce.  A4.

Jean-Pierre Pope in his Renault Clio 3 Cup.  A/3.

2020 Course de Côte du Mont Dore - CM Motor Cycle Engined Prototypes

The fastest of the CM prototypes on Saturday at Mont Dore was Yves Tholy in this Speedcar GTR.

The CM Prototypes are amongst my favourite cars on the hills of France.  At Mont Dore in August they didn't disappoint and as usual they were fast, noisy and spectacular.  Added to this was the nice variety of marques such as Speedcar, TracKing, Jema, BRC and Silvercar.  These pictures were taken on the Saturday of this CFM championship round near the top of the hill.

2nd fastest of the CM cars was Emilien Thomas in this TracKing RC01.

This Speedcar GTR was third on Saturday driven by Francois Laroche.

Fourth was the TracKing RC01B of Simon Taponard.

The Speedcar GTR of Fabien Borgognon was fith in this group.

Sixth was the Silver Car S2 of Tony Pasteau.

Seventh was this BRC B49 of Jean-Marie Recordier.

This Speedcar GTR was eighth in the hands of Mickael Faucher.

Ninth in the CM Group was Michel Gontier in this BRC B49.

Rounding out the CM top ten on Saturday was the Jema 630 GTR of Michel Perazzi.

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Alan Boudal in a Jema 630 GT

The Speedcar GTR of Alain Volbart.