Rouen-les-AFX: La Pommeraye

Sunday, 2 June 2024

60ème Course de Côte de La Pommeraye - Voitures de Sport - 2024

Marc Pernot gained the lead in the CFM with a win at La Pommeraye in his Nova Proto NP01 Turbo.

It was great to see the faster Championnat de France de la Montagne competitors at La Pommeraye in 2024. It was my first time at La Pommeraye and my first time in seeing these cars in just over a year.

The overall battle for the championship is looking like being a battle between Merc Pernot and Fabien Bourgeon this year with both coming to this event with two victories each in the early rounds. There are so many other drivers and cars to enjoy as well with some very fast single seaters such as the Formula Nippon Lola and the Formula Master car. Then there are the two litre Normas and the Formula Three and Formula Renault cars plus those incredible fast 1 litre motor cycle engined enclosed sports cars in the CM class.

My photos are from the Saturday practice runs. On Sunday they had some rain but then it dried out again.

Second was Fabien Bourgeon in his Revolt 3P0.

Third overall and first single seater was this Lola B06/51-Mugen of Miguel Vidal. It was his first ever overall podium.

Fourth overall and so close to a podium was this Tatuus Formula Master of Fabien Ponchant.

Fifth overall and winner of the CN group was Julien Bost in this Norma M20 FC.

Sixth overall was another Noma M20 FC, this one driven by William Pommery.

Seventh overall was the Norma M20 FC of Yannick Latreille.

Eighth overall was yet another Norma M20 FC, this one driven by Dimitri Pereira.

Ninth overall and first F3 car was this Dallara F305 Evo 07 driven by Benoît Taviaux.

Tenth overall was the 4 litre Norma M20 FC of Olivier Berreur.

Adding some variety in eleventh place was this Osella 21 JRB of Fabrice Gallo.

First of the Formula Renault cars was this Tatuus FR2000 of Anthony Jean.

Winner of the 1 litre motor-cycle engined sports car class was Fabien Oreal in this BRC BR9 Evo.

Winner of the class for the older sports cars was Jean-Yves Dorée in his Grac MT14S.

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A PRC (Pedeazza Racing Car).

A Formula Renault Caparo.

A Dallara F308.

The Dallara F302 of Arthur Bodin.

A TracKing RC.

A TracKing RC01.

A Speedcar GTR. This was driven by Mylenia Machado to be the fastest of the female competitors.

The Dallara MN01 of Luce Pierre who was third fastest of the women.

The Dallara F304 that won its class in the hands of michael france.

An Arcobaleno Formule.

A Mygale RC 2001.

A Signatech Formula Academy.

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

60ème Course de Côte de La Pommeraye - Voitures de Production - 2024

The winner in the Production car category and in the GTTS group was this BMW M3 E92 driven by Yannick Poinsignon.

La Pommeraye was celebrating it's 60th Course de Cote this year. I was there on Saturday for the practice and first timed run. The first cars off were the production cars that you see in this blogpost. This was the fifth round of the Championnats de France de la Montagne - the French hillclimb championship. The fastest cars in the category are the GTTS cars (various GT Cup, sSpercars, Silhouette Touring Cars and Mitjets). Yannick Poinsignon has been dominating this category this year in his BMW and looks likely to defend his 2023 title.

Also running in this category are the groups A, FA, N, FN, F2000 and the crowd pleasing FC cars (old Simcas etc). Examples of all the categories are shown below.

A Citroen Saxo Kit Car making its ascent.

The first car to leave the start line on the first timed run of the 60th running of the Course de Côte de La Pommeraye was this Renault Megane.

The rest of the top ten and winners of their group can be seen below, along with a number of the other runners.:

Second was Anthony Dubois in this Alpine A110 Evo. He drove well on Saturday and was fastest in practice.

Third was this Porsche 991 GT3 Cup of Jean-Francois Ganevat who also won the 2nd division.

Fourth was this Porsche 991 GT3 Cup driven by Jean-Marc Gandolfo.

Fifth production car and winner of Group A was this Seat Leon Supercopa Mk3 of Sébastien Lemaire.

Sixth production car and winner of Group FC was this wonderful Simca CG Turbo of Christophe Poinsignon

Seventh production car this Simca Rallye III of Romain Richardeau.

Eighth production car was this Seat Leon Supercopa Mk3 of Francis Dosieres.

Ninth production car was this Volvo Touring Cup TC10 of Julien Dupont.

Tenth production car and winner of the GT group was this Porsche 997 GT3 RS of Alexandre Garnier.

Twelfth production car and winner of the F2000 group was this Honda Civic EP3 Type R of Ferdinand Loton.

Thirteenth production car and winner of Group FN and the Ladies Cup was this BMW M3 E36 of Morane Cat Mackowiak.

Eighteenth production car and second in the GT group was this Alpine A110 Cup of Yann Durieux.

The Renault RS01 of Philippe Schmitter seen here on the first practice run where he was fastest. However, he was later disqualified from the timed runs for not wearing his fireproof socks! Otherwise he would have been on the podium.