61ème Course de Côte du Mont Dore / Chambob-sur-Lac 2021, F2000 Touring Cars

 

The winner of F2000 was Christian Boullenger in this Renault Clio 2 RS.

My final post from the 2021 Course de Côte du Mont Dore features the F2000 Touring cars.  All 13 of the  cars that were classified are shown here.   A selection of pictures from the Saturday runs in the tricky damp conditions.  A variety of shots from near the top of the hillclimb.

Second in F2000 was Cedric Bouffeteau in a Honda Civic.

Third was Renault Clio 3 RS of Edouard Drouillat.

Fourth was Frédéric Pougnet in a Renault Clio Williams.

It is early in the morning as fifth placed Samuel Racat makes a climb in a Renault Clio 2 16s.

The sixth placed Citroen AX GTi of Nicolas Vuillemin.

Seventh placed Arnaud Clavel in a Peugeot 309 GTI 16s.

The Peugeot 205 GTI of Guillaume Bassin in eighth place.

In ninth place the Peugeot 205 GTI of Christopher Sabatier.

Tenth placed Alexandre Vallon in a Peugeot 206 S16.

David Savignat in a Peugeot 205 GTI.

The Citroen C2 of Aurore Dodille.

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The final F2000 car classified at Mont Dore was this Peugeot 206 CC driven by Laurence Benoist.

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

Division 4 - Rallycross Dreux 2017

Antoni Masset in a Renault Clio 3 RS leads Geoffrey Blanchard's Honda Civic Type R and Thierry Gaignard's Citroen Xsara off the line at Dreux.

Division 4 is the rallycross equivalent of F2000 in French hillclimbing.  They are cars of 1,600cc to 2,000cc and with power up to 250hp with two wheel drive that are capable of around 0 to 100kph in 5.5 seconds.  They are an entertaining but reasonable cost rallycross category.  These are pictures from the final round of the French Rallycross Championship in 2017 at the Circuit Philippe Chanoine at Dreux.

Aurélien Crochard in his Renault Clio RS launches himself off the kerbs going into the last corner.

The start of another Division 4 heat with Xavier Goubill making a good start in his silver Peugeot 306 Maxi.

Nicolas Botherel in a Citroen DS3 battles it out with Jean Francois Blaise in a Peugeot 206.

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Jean Mickael Guerin leads Thierry Gaignard.