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| 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.
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| Coming through the mist on Saturday morning is runner-up Julien Francais in a Speedcar GTR. |
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| Looking like an Audi DTM car is a TracKing RC01B. Driven by Maxime Dojat, it came third. |
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| Fourth was another TracKing RC01, this one more Mercedes-like and driven by Emilien Thomas. |
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| Fifth was Loïc Hebenger in this Speedcar GTR. |
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| Anthony Carifi in his BRC 05 Evo was sixth. |
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| Seventh was Gaëton Bischoff in his TracKing RC01B, Mercedes look-alike. |
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| This BRC 49 Evo of Jean=Marc Tissot was eighth. |
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| With the rain falling, the BRC 05 Evo of Dominique Carifi passes by. |
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| With Lac Chambon below, Tony Pasteau passes by in his Speedcar GTR. |
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| The Jema 650 LPCM of Gabriel Baillou. |
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| The BRC of Jean-Marie Recordier. |
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| Michel Gontier in his BRC B49. |
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| The Jema 630 GTR of Michel Perazzi. |
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| Alain Volbart and his Speedcar GTR. |
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| The Jema 630 GTR of Jean-Marie Autuche. |
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| Alain Boudal and his Jema 630 GT. |
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| The Speedcar GTR Evo of Thierry Granier. |
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| Raphaël Buxeraud and his BRC 02. |
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| The Speedcar GTR of Sébastien Kerlaux. |
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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.
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| Rudy Perrin and his Jema 630 GT |
