Trophée Andros - Stade de France - Défi Electrique Thermique - 2019

Franck L:agorce snd Jean-Baptiste Dubourg celebrate after a great final.

Part of the 30 Years of the Andros Trophy celebration included a challenge between combustion cars and electric cars.   The combustion cars are normally a little quicker but a surprise was in store!
The format of the event was that there was first a run off between the fastest two combustion cars and then a run off between the two fastest electric cars.  Then a final run off was held between the two winners of the prior run offs.
The event was held in pursuit fashion with each runner starting from opposite sides of the stadium.  After a couple of laps the winner was declared.

Participants included ;
Olivier Panis - ex-F1 driver and winner of the 1996 Monaco GP
Jean-Baptiste Dubourg - Twice Andros Trohy champion and a rallycross driver
Nicolas Prost - Formula E and Endurance driver (he replaced Aurelien Panis who had a car problem)
Franck Lagorce - ex F1 driver, he was second in the  Le Mans 24 hours in 1996 and has had many Andros Trophee wins.

Many famous drivers, past and present were on hand to watch the action.

Alain Prost, Sébastien Ocon, Ari Vatanen and others were on hand.

Thermique Semi-Final

Jean-Baptiste Dubourg won the Thermique run-off in his Renault Captur.

Olivier Panis was beaten for the only time of the evening in this Audi A1 Quattro.

Electrique Semi-Final

Nicolas Prost failed to win in the Motul 100% Electrique car and thus was knocked out.

Franck Lagorce won the Electrique run-off in his Andros Sports 100% Electrique car.

Thermique vs Electrique Final.

The final was very close and you can see that Jean-Baptiste Dubourg got very sideways.

Franck Lagorce was very determined to win and did so, against the odds, in the Andros Sport 100% Electrique car.

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Franck Lagorce with his Trophy.  He was obviously very pleased to win.