61ème Course de Côte du Mont-Dore / Chambon-sur-Lac 2021, Groupe D/E Single Seaters

The Dallara F303 of the fastest class D5S F3 driver Didier Brun.

For the single seaters, at Mont Dore,  as well as the usual F3 and Formula Renault cars there were a trio of Formula Masters cars and a good looking Formula 2 Martini.   There were 29 runners of which most can be seen below.  These are the photos I took near the top of the hill on Saturday when the weather conditions were not so good as later in the weekend. 

Top single seater at Mont Dore was this Tatuus Formula Master of Fabien Ponchant

Second fastest single seater was this Martini Mk 62, (originally a nineties 2 litre French hillclimb car specially built by Martini from a F3 car base)  driven by Pierre Mayeur.  A very nice looking car in was the only D/E 4 1,600-2,000cc runner.

The fastest of the Dallara F3 cars was this Dallara F302 of Didier Brun, seen here through the morning mist.

Fastest of the female competitors at Mont Dore was Cindy Gudet in a Tatuus Formula Master.

Second F3 car was Daniel Allais in a Dallara F308.

Third of the Tatuus Formula Master cars was that of Fabrice Flandy.

Another photo from the misty morning session, with the third F3 car, that of Steeve Gerard.  It is a Dallara F312.

Thomas Clausi in a Dallara F302.

Fastest of the Formula Renault cars was Etienne Pernot in a Tatuus FR2013, seen here splashing through the rain.

10th of the single-seater was the Dallara F300 of Gaëtan Renouf.

Benoit Taviaux in a Dallara F303.

Second of the Formula Renault drivers waa Baptiste Tognet-Bruchet in a Tatuus FR2000.

Third of the Formula Renault drivers was Stanislas Coquet in a Tatuus FR2004.

The Caparo FR2000 of Anthony Gueudry.

The Dallara F308 of Christopher Giet.

Another Tatuus FR2000, that of Benjamin Brenot.

Another Formula Tatuus, that of Thierry Brenot.

Dorian Ferstler in a Tatuus FR2000.

Winner of his 1,300cc class was Michael France in his Dallara F304.

Delphine Cursoux in her Dallara 397.

Jean-Christophe Henri in a Tatuus FR2000.

Francis Renouf and his Martini Mk79 F3 car.

Gilbert Isabelle in a Dallara 399.

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The Mygale RC2001 Formula Renault car of Pascal Marais.

61ème Course de Côte du Mont-Dore / Chambon-sur-Lac 2021, Groupe CM

 

Yves Tholy was the winner of the Groupe CM at Mont Dore in this Speedcar GTR and 23rd fastest overall.

Groupe CM in French hillclimbs is a category for lightweight sports prototype cars with up to 1,000cc motor cycle engines as their power unit.    They are thus very quick and agile and faster than most of the other French hillclmb cars except for the faster Norma 2 litre sports prototype cars and Dallara F3 cars.  What adds to the interest in this category is that there are a number of specialist manufacturers such as Speedcar, BRC and Jema who produce a number of very different looking cars.  TracKing even make their cars look like Audi, Mercedes and BMW DTM cars!

This year at Mont-Dore, on the Saturday when I attended, the weather was changeable with mist, fog, rain and even occasionally some sun making an appearance.  Most of the time it was very cold for an August day.   This made for a difficult photography challenge at times, especially as the conditions change so fast on a mountain.

All of the CM runners in 2021 at the Course de Côte du Mont-Dore / Chambon-sur-Lac are shown in this blogpost, in the order that they were classified.  Positions referred to are compared to the other CM cars.

Coming through the mist on Saturday morning is runner-up Julien Francais in a Speedcar GTR.

Looking like an Audi DTM car is a TracKing RC01B.  Driven by Maxime Dojat, it came third.

Fourth was another TracKing RC01, this one more Mercedes-like and driven by Emilien Thomas.

Fifth was Loïc Hebenger in this Speedcar GTR.

Anthony Carifi in his BRC 05 Evo  was sixth.

Seventh was Gaëton Bischoff in his TracKing RC01B, Mercedes look-alike.

This BRC 49 Evo of  Jean=Marc Tissot was eighth.

With the rain falling, the BRC 05 Evo of Dominique Carifi passes by.

With Lac Chambon below, Tony Pasteau passes by in his Speedcar GTR.

The Jema 650 LPCM of Gabriel Baillou.

The BRC of Jean-Marie Recordier.

Michel Gontier in his BRC B49.

The Jema 630 GTR of Michel Perazzi.

Alain Volbart and his Speedcar GTR.

The Jema 630 GTR of Jean-Marie Autuche.

Alain Boudal and his Jema 630 GT.

The Speedcar GTR Evo of Thierry Granier.

Raphaël Buxeraud and his BRC 02.

The Speedcar GTR of Sébastien Kerlaux.

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Rudy Perrin and his Jema 630 GT

61ème Course de Côte du Mont-Dore / Chambon-sur-Lac 2021, Groupe FC

Geoffrey Desmereau and his Jidé Original, which won its class.

I have to admit that I love these old pre-2005 cars that compete in Groupe FC.  Most are far older and date to the seventies.   Very popular with most spectators they are often spectacular as well.  At Mont Dore on Saturday morning and early afternoon they had to contend with rain but not with the worse conditions that preceded and followed their runs.  All the Groupe FC runners that competed at Mont Dore in 2021 are shown here.

Mathieu Nouet won the Groupe FC in his Simca Rallye 3.

Splashing through the rain is runner-up, Christophe Poinsignon in his Simca CG Turbo.

Third was this Scora Type 2 of Joël Cazalens.

Fourth was the Jidé Original of Geoffrey Desmereau.

Fifth and a class winner was Thomas Broussolle in this Simca Rallye 2, seen here splashing through the rain.

Sixth and a class winner was Philippe Quioc in a Simca Rallye 2.

Seventh was this Peugeot 205 of Dominique Lansard.  Lac Chambon is in the distance.

Eighth was this Simca Rallye 3 of Marc Le Goff.

Ninth was Laurent Brossard in this Simca Rallye 2 cutting the apex finely.

Tenth was this Simca Rallye 2 of Nicolas Delperie.

Final classified car was this Renault Clio V6 Trophy of Arnaud Choquet, seen here in the rain.

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The clouds begin to descend off the mountain as this Simca heads toward the Col.