V de V Sports
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V de V Series is a motor racing organisation that owns and runs a group of international motor racing championships. Based in Paris, the majority of events are held in France although the series regularly visits Spain and Portugal and has also visited Belgium, Germany and Italy. The organisation takes its name from founder Eric van de Vyver. His family is involved in most aspects of running the series and they have their own racing team within the series.
Championships
[edit]V de V has hosted five separate championships;
- Challenge Monoplace, for open wheel racing cars
- Challenge Endurance Proto, for prototype sports racing cars
- Challenge Endurance GT/Tourisme, for GT sport cars and touring cars
- Challenge Funyo, a one-make series of prototype sports racing cars
- Challenge Endurance VHC, for historic GT sport cars and touring cars
The series are recognised and sanctioned by the FIA as International Series.[1]
Challenge Monoplace
[edit]Introduced in 2010, this series caters for a wide variety of eligible open wheel racing cars, mostly second hand from other series. The majority of present cars are Formula Renault 2.0L cars built by Tatuus or Barazi-Epsilon. Formula 3, Formula Master, Formula Nissan, Formula Renault 1.6L, Formula Campus, Formula BMW, Formula Abarth and some Formula Fords are also eligible. Champions sourced from:[2]
| Year | Champion | Car |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 |  Philippe Haezebrouck
|
Tatuus FR2000 Renault |
| 2011 | Simon Gachet
|
Tatuus FR2000 Renault |
| 2012 | Hugo Blanchot
|
Tatuus FR2000 Renault |
| 2013 | John Filippi
|
Tatuus N.T07 Honda |
| 2014 |  Daniele Cazzaniga
|
Tatuus FR 2.0-13 Renault |
| 2015 |  David Droux
|
Tatuus FR 2.0-13 Renault |
| 2016 |  Alex Peroni
|
Barazi-Epsilon FR2.0–10 |
| 2017 | Gilles Heriau
|
Barazi-Epsilon FR2.0–10 |
| 2018 |  Nicolás Varrone
|
Barazi-Epsilon FR2.0-10 |
Challenge Funyo
[edit]Single-marque competition with prototypes from Y.O Concept (Funyo).[3]
| Year | Champion | Car |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Jacques Fontbonne
|
Funyo 4 RC |
| 2009 | David Monclair
|
Funyo 4 RC |
| 2010 | François Heriau
|
Funyo 4 RC |
| 2011 | Marc-Antoine Dannielou
|
Funyo 5 |
| 2012 | Nicolas Cannard
|
Funyo 5 |
| 2013 | Serge Heriau
|
Funyo 5 |
| 2014 | Jean Quelet
|
Funyo 5 |
| 2015 | Romain Houllier
|
Funyo 5 |
| 2016 | Romain Houllier
|
Funyo SP05 |
| 2017 | Nicolas Cannard
|
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| 2018 | Aurélien Robineau
|
Challenge Endurance Proto
[edit]Champions sourced from:[4]
| Year | Champion | Car |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 |  Rob Croydon
|
Juno SSE |
| 2008 | David Caussanel Julien Schell
|
Ligier JS49 Honda |
| 2009 | Philippe Mondolot David Zollinger
|
Norma M20 F Honda |
| 2010 | Philippe Mondolot David Zollinger
|
Norma M20 F Honda |
| 2011 | Philippe Mondolot David Zollinger
|
Norma M20 F Honda |
| 2012 | Thomas Accary Sébastien Dhouailly
|
Norma M20 FC Honda |
| 2013 | Philippe Mondolot David Zollinger
|
Norma M20 FC Honda |
| 2014 | Vincent Capillaire
|
Norma M20 FC Honda |
| 2015 | Thomas Accary
|
Norma M20 FC Honda |
| 2016 | Alain Ferté Philippe Illiano Ander Vilariño
|
Norma M20 FC Honda |
| 2017 | Alain Ferté Philippe Illiano Ander Vilariño
|
Norma M20 FC Honda |
Challenge Endurance GT/Tourisme
[edit]Champions sourced from:[5]
| Year | Champion | Car |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Pierre Benoist Jean-Paul Pagny
|
Porsche 996 GT3 RSR |
| 2008 | Jean-Paul Pagny
|
Ferrari F430 |
| 2009 | David Loger Eric Mouez
|
Porsche 996 GT3 RSR Porsche 997 GT3 Cup S |
| 2010 | Christophe Bourret Pascal Gibon
|
Porsche 997 GT3 RSR |
| 2011 | Anthony Pons
|
Porsche 997 GT3 RSR |
| 2012 | Patrice Milesi
|
Porsche 997 GT3 RSR |
| 2013 | Jean-Philippe Belloc Pascal Gibon
|
Porsche 997 GT3-R |
| 2014 | Patrice Lafargue Paul Lafargue
|
Porsche 997 GT3-R |
| 2015 | Jean-Paul Pagny Thierry Perrier Jean-Bernard Bouvet
|
Ferrari F458 Italia GT2 |
| 2016 | Jean-Paul Pagny
|
Ferrari F458 Italia GT2 & Ferrari F488 GT3 |
| 2017 | David Loger Éric Mouez
|
Ferrari 458 GT3 |
| 2018 | Jean-Paul Pagny Thierry Perrier Jean-Bernard Bouvet
|
Ferrari F488 GT3 |
Challenge Endurance VHC
[edit]VHC stands for Véhicule historiques de compétition. Originally there was only one overall champion. For the 2009 season, the championships for Prototype and GT cars were separated. Champions sourced from:[6]
| Year | Champion | Car | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Miguel Langin Bernard Moreau
|
Porsche 911 3.0 RSR | ||
| 2008 | Patrick Biehler Marc de Siebenthal
|
Porsche 911 3.0 RSR | ||
| Year | Prototype | GT | ||
| Champion | Car | Champion | Car | |
| 2009 | Yann Le Calvez Lionel Robert
|
Elva Mk.8 | Miguel Langin Bernard Moreau
|
Porsche 911 3.0 RSR |
| 2010 | Yann Le Calvez
|
Elva Mk.8 | Miguel Langin Bernard Moreau
|
Porsche 911 3.0 RSR |
| 2011 | Marc Alloend-Bessand Sylvain Guanzini
|
Elva Mk.8 | Miguel Langin Bernard Moreau
|
Porsche 911 3.0 RSR |
| 2012 | Jean-Marc Bachelier Eric Vincenot
|
Ford GT40 | Miguel Langin Bernard Moreau
|
Porsche 911 3.0 RSR |
| 2013 | Yann Le Calvez
|
Elva Mk.8 | Serge Kriknoff
|
Porsche 911 2.8 RSR |
| 2014 | Christophe Kubryk "Nelson"
|
March 81S |  Peter Mülder Patrick Simon
|
Porsche 911 3.0 SC RS Porsche 964 Cup |
| 2015 | "John Doe"
|
Chevron B60 | Franck Thybaud
|
Porsche 944 Cup |
| 2016 |  Alain Bazard
|
Ford GT40 | Lionel Robert Olivier Huez
|
Lucchini SP91 Evo n°9 |
Racing team
[edit]The racing team owns a Mosler MT900 GT3 which races in the Endurance GT/Tourisme, and a TVR Griffith and Hema Porsche which race in Endurance VHC. In 2015 their primary team parked the Mosler and began racing an Audi R8 LMS in conjunction with AB Sport racing team.
References
[edit]- ^ "2015 International Series" (PDF). FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L'AUTOMOBILE.
- ^ "V de V Sports, courses automobiles d'endurance et de sprint -". Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
- ^ "V de V Funyo Challenge - SP05 2016 standings | Driver Database".
- ^ "V de V Sports, courses automobiles d'endurance et de sprint -". Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
- ^ "V de V Sports, courses automobiles d'endurance et de sprint -". Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
- ^ "V de V Sports, courses automobiles d'endurance et de sprint -". Archived from the original on 2015-07-12. Retrieved 2015-07-10.