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.

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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.

A Honda Civic EK4 flashes by.

A Peugeot 205 GTi.

A Peugeot 106 S16.

A Renault Mégane 3 RS.

Citroën Saxo Cup.

Renault Clio 3 Cup.

Renault Clio 3 Cup.

Lotus Exige Cup 260.

Simca Rallye II.

Simca 1000 Turbo.

Nissan 370Z.

Waiting for the start.

Course de Côte du Mont Dore 2017, Championnat de France de la Montagne Production

The Renault Clio 4 Cup of Eric Peyrard making his ascent of Mont Dore.

The Production cars category of the French Mountain Hillclimb Championship always contains a nice selection of cars.  Everything from old sports cars of the seventies to modern Peugeots and Renaults to exotica like Lamboghinis and Porsches with a few Silhouette cars thrown in.   The Course de Cote du Mont Dore / Chambon sur Lac in August 2017 was no exception.  A number of the runners were also registered for the European Hillclimb Championship round and thus their photos can be found via the following link:

https://rouenlesafx.blogspot.fr/2017/08/fia-european-hillclimb-championship.html

Examples of the other runners can be seen below:

One of the many Mitjets making its ascent.  This is the Tork-Mitjet of Marc Basseres.

The stunning and unusual Volvo TC 10 of Pierre Beal

The Volvo TC10 Silhouette car in the paddock.

One of the first of the production cars up the course was Laurent Etie in his Peugeot 306 Maxi.

Marc Le Goff in his Simca R3 makes his first ascent on Saturday.

The Simca R3 waiting for a second run on Saturday afternoon.

Six time French Mountain Production Champion Nicolas Werver in his Porsche 997.

A Jidé waiting for its run.

Renaud Desmereau in his Jidé.  He was third in class FC3.

The Peugeot 205 Rallye of Philippe Quioc.

The Lamborghini Gallardo of Nicolas Caumon.

The top of the hill is still misty as one of the cars makes its ascent.

Anthony Dubois in his Porsche 997 Cup.

Flavian Sagot in his BMW M3

The Renault Clio 3 Cup of Laurent Lafosse.

The Mitjet of Jean-Michel Lestienne.

The Renault Clio Cup of Pascal Derre getting close to the armco.

Nice looking BMW Z3 M of Jean-Marc Tissot.

Lotus Exige returning down the hill.

The Opel Speedster of Serge Di Cioccio was second in his class.

Peugeot 205 Kit Car waiting for its Saturday afternoon run.

Laurent Etie in his Peugeot 306 Maxi just after the start.

John Etherton asserts his copyright to all of the photos on this blogpost.  However, you may post the photos elsewhere on the web as long as you credit the photographer, John Etherton, and this blog post, Rouenlesafx@blogspot.com and provide a link to this page.

John Etherton affirme son droit d'auteur à l'ensemble des photos sur ce billet de blog. Cependant, vous pouvez poster des photos ailleurs sur le web aussi longtemps que vous créditez le photographe, John Etherton, et ce blog, Rouenlesafx@blogspot.com et fournissez un lien vers cette page.