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

Bruno La Monica, Norma M20 FC-Honda.

As well as being a round of the European Hillclimb Championship, the 2017 Course de Cote de Mont Dore / Chambon-sur-Lac was the tenth round of the French Mountain Hillclimb Championship - Championnat de France de la Montagne.  This blog post has photos of the Sports category which includes CN ands CM sports cars and single seaters.  I was there on Saturday morning for the practice and walked the paddock after a big Auvergnat lunch.

One of the highlights of the day was meeting Charlie Martin in the paddock. She spent time talking to us about the challenge of Mont Dore and how the Norma differed from her Tatuus.  I have great admiration for people who follow their dreams.   She finished top female driver, was 27th overall and tenth in a very large class.  Definitely her best performance yet at Mont Dore.

Chalie Martin standing by her Norma in the paddock at Chambon sur Lac.  It was nice to meet Charlie at last and she spent time chatting to us about the challenge of Mont Dore.

Charlie Martin earlier on Saturday making her first run up the course in her Norma.

Anthony Carifi in his Norma M20F at the first main turn.

Fabien Bourgeon in his susuki engined TracKing RC01B.  He was the top motor cycle engined sports car.

Nice to see something different than a Norma.  Here is a Merlin MP23.

Yves Tholy in his Speedcar GTR.   He was second in his class.

Manuel Mangold in his Norma M20F.

A Jema 630 GTR piloted by Michel Perazzi.

Maxime Basset in his Norma M20F.

Tony Pasteau in his BRC 02

Julien Francais won the 2 litre sports car class in his Norma M20 FC.

Xavier Vair in his TracKing RC0 13

David Meillon and his Norma in the paddock.

David Meillon's 3 litre Norma M20F

Olivier Cambon in his Funyo B4 GR at the first main corner.

For the record here are the other cars that did particularly well:

Sébastien Petit was overall winner in his Norma M20FC

Geoffrey Schatz weas second overall in his Norma FC.

Third overall was Cyrille Frantz in his Norma M20Fc.

Top F3 car was Billy Ritchen in his Dallara F311-Mercedes.

Winner of the CN3 class was this Osella PA27 of Benjamin Vielmi.

First of he Formula Renaults was Estel Bouche in her Tatuus FR2000

For pictures of the European Hillclimb Championship runners at Mont Dore 2017, click here.

For pictures of the VHC Championship runners (Historic Competition Cars)  at Mont Dore 2017, click here.

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