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.

2020 Course de Côte du Mont Dore - Some other Sports Cars

 

The old Grac MT145 of Jean-Yves Dorée

I have just noticed that I missed posting any pictures of a few rather nice sports cars that appeared at the Course de Côte du Mont Dore in August,  So here they are!   A couple of CNF/1 cars and two CM cars.

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Olivier Cambon in his Funyo B4.

The Jema 650 LPCM of Gabriel Baillou.   Never seen a Jema like this before!

The Jema B10 of Frederic Barbiny

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The Funyo dipped below 3 minutes on it's Saturday run.

2020 Course de Côte du Mont Dore - Group A / FA Touring Cars

Noel Joubert in his Renault Megane DCi FA/4.

The Groupe A and FA are the fastest group of modern touring cars that compere in French hillclimbing.  The are allowed more modifications that Group N.  The Group A cars are those that are currently homologated whereas the FA cars are similar but are no longer homologated.   Cars such as the Seat Leon Super Copa cars are surprisingly quick and are as quick as some of the GT cars.  The classes depend on cubic capacity with the lower numbers being the smaller capacity cars.  Any positions in group or class are from the Saturday runs (August 8th, 2020)  when I was photographing these cars.  On the tricky 5.075 kilometre course at Mont-Dore Chamon-sur-Lac the fastest Group A Touring Car car recorded a time of just under 2 minutes 49 seconds on Saturday!  This was less than 12 seconds slower than the McLaren MP4 12C that won the GTTS class.

The winner of Groupe A/FA on Saturday was Francis Dosieres in a Seat leon Super Copa Mk3.  A/5.

The Renault Clio 4 Cup of Stephane Auriacombe was winner of class A/4.

Nicolas Granier in his Renault 4 Cup. A/4.

The Seat Leon Super Copa Mk3 of Abel Sahoui.. A/5.

The Peugeot 206 RC of Bastien Combelle.  FA/3.

Antoine Uny and his Seat Leon Super Copa Mk2 was runner up in the group and class A/5.

The Renault Clio 3 Cup of Philibert Michy.  A/3.

The Renault Clio 3 Cup of Maxence Passaquet.  A/3.

Bruno Milliet in a Renault Clio 4 Cup.  A/4.

The Renault Clio 4 Cup of Vivien Tonon. A/4.

Simon Richard and his Peugeot 308 Cup.  A/4.

The Peugeot 206 S16 of Patrick Marchal.  A/3.

Elodie Lafosse and her Peugeot 106 winner of FA/1.

A light touch with the barrier for the Seat Leon Super Copa of Alain Perraud.  A/5.

The Renault Clio 2 Cup of Maxime Dojat won class A/3.

Michel Bineau in his Nissan Almera.  A/3.

The Renault Clio 3 Cup of Jimmy Erhmann.  A/3.

Michel Burgunder and his Seat Leon Super Copa.  A/5.

The Renault Clio 2 Cup of Nicolas Vidon.  A/3.

Jerome Janny and his Seat Leon Super Copa was third in the group and class A/5.

The Renault Clio 3 Cup of Philibert Michy.  A/3.

Thibault Moncomble and his Peugeot Saxo VTA won class FA 2.

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Maxime Chebbak in his Renault Clio 4 Cup with the mountain backdrop.  A/4.

The Renault 4 Cup of Thierry Tierce.  A4.

Jean-Pierre Pope in his Renault Clio 3 Cup.  A/3.

47ème Course de Côte régionale de Tonnerre,

The fastest at Tonnerre this year was Romain Richardeau in a Dallara F397 evo F398.

This was only my second Course de Côte of 2020  because of the Covid19 crisis, but a very pleasant one and a new one for me.  Thanks to the organisers, Ecurie Vauban, for maintaining their event when so many others have cancelled.  The hill climb runs up from the fire station in Tonnere to a farm "La Ferme de Chape".  Tonnere is in the north west of the Burgundy region of France.  Parking for spectators is at the top of the hill near the farm and I must remember this for the next time I go as it is difficult to find from the centre of town.  The course is quite undulating with some downhill as well as uphill sections and  is 1.5 kilometres in length, so a fast time is just under 50 seconds for the Formula 3 cars.  96 drivers were classified and 30 of them feature in this post.  The runs which counted were on Sunday but I attended the practice runs on Saturday afternoon 15th August  to avoid the crowds.  Nevertheless, there were still a lot of us on the hill on Saturday as well on a beautifully sunny day.  Very nice to see such a good field of cars and quite a good hill for taking photographs.  A hill climb to come back to again !

One surprise of the day was seeing a Wolf racing car in the old Walter Wolf racing colours.  I hadn't realised that an Italian producer had bought the rights to the Walter Wolf Racing name and had produced a CN Prototype car in 2010.  Certainly a pleasant surprise and nice to see some variety from the host of the usual Normas of which there were relatively few of at Tonnerre.

A very well known hillclimb car in this region is the beautiful Ligier JS47 of Jean-Pierre Boucharrd.  It finished second.

Third was Gilbert Isabelle in a Dallara F399. 

Florian Serralta was fourth in a Speedcar GTR Evo 19 and won the CM class.

Fifth was the Tatuus FR2000 of Laurent Varlet which won the Formule France class.

Michael France in a Dallara F304 was sixth.

Seventh was the Dallara BAM F394 of Martial Conte.

Arnaud Pignol was eighth in a Tatuus FR2000.

Tenth was the Norma M20F of Philippe Fusillier which won the CN class.

In eleventh and fastest of the female competitors was Marion Alexandre in her Ligier JS51.

Twelfth was the Wolf GB08 of Luc Francois.

Rodolphe Simonnet was 13th in his Alpine A110 and won his class.

Fourteenth was Stephane Picault in a JPS FC.

The Porsche GT2 of Morane Cat Mackowiak was fifteenth and won its class.

Twentieth was the Renault Clio 4 RS of David Deremond.

Christian Boullanger was 21st in his Renault Clio Rs.

22nd was Pascal Simonot in a CG Simca which won its class.

The Peugeot RCZ Cup of Jean-Jacques Maurel was 23rd.

24th was the Peugeot 106 of Maxime Meyer.

The Nissan Almera of Michel Bineau was 25th.

28th was the Renault Clio Williams of Damien Kosk.

Winner of the FC/FS 1 call was this Simca Rallye 2 of Bernard Delniau.

A rather good looking Farm Tork Mitjet 1300 won the GTTS 1 class in the hands of Cedric Boureille.

Giles Berger won the F2000 1 class in his Peugeot 205 Rallye.

Winner of the FN2 class was this Honda Civic of Jerome Chardin.

Franck Jovin won the FA 1 class in this Peugeot 106 XSI.

3rd in the FC/FS 1 class was Bernard Martin in the Simca Rallye 2.

The Peugeot 405 of James Skolylas.

Second of the three lady drivers was Melanie Robert in this Peugeot 205.

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A Renault Clio nears the finish line at the top of the hill.