61ème Course de Côte du Mont Dore / Chambob-sur-Lac 2021, F2000 Touring Cars

 

The winner of F2000 was Christian Boullenger in this Renault Clio 2 RS.

My final post from the 2021 Course de Côte du Mont Dore features the F2000 Touring cars.  All 13 of the  cars that were classified are shown here.   A selection of pictures from the Saturday runs in the tricky damp conditions.  A variety of shots from near the top of the hillclimb.

Second in F2000 was Cedric Bouffeteau in a Honda Civic.

Third was Renault Clio 3 RS of Edouard Drouillat.

Fourth was Frédéric Pougnet in a Renault Clio Williams.

It is early in the morning as fifth placed Samuel Racat makes a climb in a Renault Clio 2 16s.

The sixth placed Citroen AX GTi of Nicolas Vuillemin.

Seventh placed Arnaud Clavel in a Peugeot 309 GTI 16s.

The Peugeot 205 GTI of Guillaume Bassin in eighth place.

In ninth place the Peugeot 205 GTI of Christopher Sabatier.

Tenth placed Alexandre Vallon in a Peugeot 206 S16.

David Savignat in a Peugeot 205 GTI.

The Citroen C2 of Aurore Dodille.

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The final F2000 car classified at Mont Dore was this Peugeot 206 CC driven by Laurence Benoist.

61ème Course de Côte du Mont Dore / Chambon-sur-Lac, Groupe A Touring Cars

Jean-Sébastien Fel in a Groupe A Peugeot 308 Cup towards the top of the climb on his way to ninth.

 Featured in this post from the 2021 Course de Côte du Mont Dore are the Group A Touring Cars.   These cars are the fastest touring cars on the hills of France.  The winning car achieved a time of 5 minutes 37 seconds which is not too far off the 5 minutes 13 seconds achieved by the exotic Audi R8 which won the GTTS group.   All the top ten in this Group are shown here with photos from the wet Saturday runs.

The winner of Groupe A was Stéphane Auriacombe in a Peugeot 308 Cup.  He was also 6th overall amongst all the Production based cars bearting many GTTS and GT cars.

Second in Groupe A was Jérôme Janny in a Seat Leon Supacopa Mk2.

Third in Groupe A was Stéphane Garcia in a Peugeot 308 Racing Cup.

Fourth was Jean-Pierre Pope in a Peugeot 308 Cup.

Nearing the top of Mont Dore is Manuel Brunet in a Peugeot 308 Cup.  He came 5th.

Geoffroy Bouhin splashes his way up the hill to sixth  in a Seat Leon Supacopa Mk2.

The 7th placed Seat Leon Supacopa Mk3 of Sarah Bernard.

The Seat Leon Supacopa Mk2 of Thierry Tierce.  He was 8th in the group.

The tenth placed Seat Leon Supacopa Mk2 of Nicolas Granier.

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The Nissan Almera of Michel Bineau.

The Renault Clio Cup of Jessy Schenk.

The Renault Clio Cup of Cyril Derre.

61ème Course de Côte du Mont-Dore / Chambon-sur-Lac 2021, Groupe N Touring Cars

 

Fastest Groupe N car was this BMW M3 E36 of Sébastien Lemaire.

Although, the Groupe N cars are not the fastest cars at the Course de Côte du Mont Dore, the drivers still have to conquer this long mountain road in all weathers.   In this post we feature pictures of the top three in the Groupe and the class winners.

2nd in Groupe N was Pascal Cat in this Renault Mégane RS.

3rd in Groupe N was another Mégane but driven by Kévin Jarousse.

Eric Sauteur won class N3 in this Renault Clio Ragnotti.

Julien Nouveau won class N2 in this Honda Civic VTi.

Kevin Ricard won class N1 in this Peugeot 106 XSI.

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Guy Janny cutting the apex fine in his Peugeot 106 XSI.

Julien Faure splashing his way up the mountain in a Renault Clio 2 RS.

Mickael Desmaris in a Peugeot 106 Rallye.

Headlights on in the gloom for a BMW M3 driven by Benoit Marion.

61ème Course de Côte du Mont-Dore / Chambon-sur-Lac 2021, Sports Prototypes E2SC, CN3 & CN+

Jonathan Dessens in a Funyo SP05 Evo which was running in CN3.

This post from the Course de Côte du Mont Dore 2021 covers all of the Sports prototype cars that we don't normally see in the Regional events as they are only eligible for the CFM National Championship rounds.  Thus specifically the E2SC, CN3 and CN+ class cars.    These cars contain some of the quicker competitors and most of the normal contenders for an outright win, plus the newer Funyo cars that are normally seen on the circuits of France rather than the mountains.  All of the cars that competed are shown below.

No surprise that the overall victor at Mont Dore was Geoffrey Schatz in a Nova Proto NP01-2 conforming to the E2SC-3A regs.

Second overall was Damien Chamberod in a Norma M20 FC also conforming to E2SC-3A regs.

In the same class and in third place overall was Fabien Bourgeon in this Revolt 3P0.

Having driven F3 cars for many years, Billy Ritchen has stepped up to E2SC Protos and is driving this Nova Proto NP01.  he was fourth overall.

In the only CN+ class car present and finishing fifth overall was Kévin Petit in this Norma M20 FC.

The only car running in E2SC - 1A was the Nova NP03 of Axel Petit that finished twelfth overall.

The pretty Osella PA 20S of Cédric Lansard.  Here he is descending the course with insert, him ascending the course in the fog.   He was the first in the CN3 class.

Ascending the course during the fog is Olivier Berreur in a CN3 Norma M20 F.

The first of the Funyo SP05 Evo running in CN3 was that of Jonathan Dessens.

The second Funyo SP05 was that of Dominique Arnoux.

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The third Funyo was that of Rémy Brouard.

The Osella PA 30T of Cyrille Frantz did not record a time outside of the practice runs.  he is seen here on the first ascent on Saturday morning.  He was running in the E2SC 3A class.

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Another shot of Rémy Brouard's Funyo SP05 Evo.