Tour Auto 2020 - Competition - VHC

 

Winner of the Tour Auto this year was this 1962 Jaguar E-Type 3.8L crewed by 
Raphaël FAVARO/Lucien-Charles NICOLET.

The most prestigious competition within the Tour Auto is to be scratch winner of the VHC category.  This category is cars from 1951 to 1965 and of course the car marques and models must be ones that competed in the original Tour de France Automobiles.  In recent years winners have driven cars such as AC Cobras, Ford GT40s, and Jaguar E-Types.  For the last two years (2018 and 2019) the winners has been Raphaël Favaro in a Lotus Elan with Yves Badan as his co-driver.  This year he changed his co-driver and car but still won, this time in the Jaguar E-type seen above.  

This year, three time GP winner, Thierry Boutsen took part in the Tour Auto for the first time and actually finished in the top ten of the VHC competition.  He is shown below with many other of the top twenty runners below.

Second were Jean Pierre LAJOURNADE/Christophe BOUCHET,
also in a 1962 Jaguar E-Type 3.8L.  They were winners back in 2015 and 2016.

This 1965 Shelby Cobra 289 crewed by Damien KOHLER/Sylvie LABOISNE was third.

Sébastien BERCHON/Sebastien BORDIER came fourth in this 1956 Austin Healey 100/4.

Fifth was this 1964 Jaguar E Type 3.8L crewed by Christophe DELACHAUX/Josselin PETER.

Bertrand PENLAE/Anne PENLAE were sixth in this 1965 Porsche 911 2.0L.

Another 1965 Porsche 911 2.0L came seventh crewed by 
Satanas of Monparnasse/Diabolo de Charbo

Jean-Marc RIVET-FUSIL/Claude LE JEAN were eighth in this 1963 Jaguar E Type 3.8L.

The fifth Jaguar E Type 3,8L in the top ten and in ninth place was this 1963 example
crewed by Serge COZZOLINO/Pascale LEGAY COZZOLINO.

Ex-F1 star Thierry BOUTSEN came tenth navigated by Hervé ORDIONI
in this 1965 Porsche 911 2.0L.

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In twelfth were Claude DEMOLE/Sébastien DEMOLE in this 1965 Shelby Cobra 289.

Jacques-Yves LE MAREC/Gautier ROSSIGNOL came twentieth in this 1963 Triumph TR4.