V de V Sports

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

The series presently hosts 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
Main article: V de V Challenge Monoplace

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 Formula Renault 2.0

Challenge Funyo

Single-maque competition with prototypes from Y.O Concept (Funyo).

Champions sourced from:[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

Challenge Endurance Proto

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
Norma M20 FC 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
Kevin Bole-Besançon
Jean-Ludovic Foubert		 Norma M20 FC Honda
2016 Alain Ferté
Philippe Illiano
Ander Vilariño		 Norma M20 FC Honda
2017

Challenge Endurance GT/Tourisme

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
Thierry Perrier
Jean-Bernard Bouvet		 Ferrari F458 Italia GT2 & Ferrari F488 GT3
2017

Challenge Endurance VHC

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

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
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