Historic Tour - Val de Vienne - Sport Protos Cup - 2021

The Sports Proto Cup mainly caters for 3 litre Alfa Romeo engined cars from 1990 to 1994

I alway love seeing open cockpit sports prototype cars and this field of cars contained many good looking pre-1995 examples.  Most of the cars were "Coupe Alfa V6" cars from the early nineties with a sprinkling of cars from other series over the years.    There were also a couple of really historic seventies 2 litre sports cars from Lola and Grac.  The marque, Lucchini, was the one most represented and these cars were built in Italy.  Although the winner of the race was never really in doubt, there was a good tussle over second place and other positions further down the field.  These pictures and results were from the Saturday afternoon race.

First lap action with cars 5 and 7 tangling.

The winner of the race was Gianluigi Candiani in his 1994 Lucchini SP94 Alfa Romeo V6 12v 3L.

Second place went to the 1994 Lucchini SP94 Alfa Romeo V6 3L (No.12) of Stéphane Nguyen.

Third place went to Louis Kolly in this 1973 Lola T292-BMW 2L

In fourth place was Dominique Vulliez in this 1991 Bogani 91- Alfa V6 12v 3L (No.36).

Fifth place went to Pierre-Loup Boch in a 1993 Lucchini SP93-BMW 3L.

Sixth was this 1991 Merlin MP46 Alfa Romeo V6 12v 3L of Josserand De Murard.

In seventh place was this 1994 Norma M14 BMW 3L driven by Léo Columbini.

Eighth place went to a 1991 Spider 905 Martini Mk64 driven by Jean-Pierre Destombes.

In ninth place was Philippe Gandini in a 1994 Merlin MP94 Honda 1.6L.

Tenth place went to this 1990 Lucchini SP390 Alfa Romeo V5 24v 3L driven by Lionel Boch.

In eleventh place was this 1991 Lucchini SP91 Alfa Romeo V6 12v 3L.

Final classified finisher was this 1974 Grac MT20 JRD 2L driven by Bernard Garsou.

The following cars were all non-finishers:

The 1991 Epsilon Alfa Romeo V6 12v 3L of Francis Dougnac.

The pretty 1972 Grac MT14b BMW M10 of Bernard Levy.

The 1991 Merlin MP91 Alfa Romeo V6 12v 3L of Laurent Bayers.

This 1987 Arc MF15 Alfa Romeo Boxer didn't even finish the pace lap.

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The pace car lap at La Ferme.

The battle for third place.