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. The van de Vyer family is involved in most aspects of running the series, having its own racing team within the series.

Championships

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

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	Barazi-Epsilon FR2.0–10
2018	Nicolás Varrone	Barazi-Epsilon FR2.0-10

Challenge Funyo

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
2018	Aurélien Robineau

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	Alain Ferté Philippe Illiano Ander Vilariño	Norma M20 FC Honda

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	David Loger Éric Mouez	Ferrari 458 GT3
2018	Jean-Paul Pagny Thierry Perrier Jean-Bernard Bouvet	Ferrari F488 GT3

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 V de V 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

1. "2015 International Series" (PDF). FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L'AUTOMOBILE.
2. "V de V Sports, courses automobiles d'endurance et de sprint -". Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
3. "V de V Funyo Challenge - SP05 2016 standings | Driver Database".
4. "V de V Sports, courses automobiles d'endurance et de sprint -". Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
5. "V de V Sports, courses automobiles d'endurance et de sprint -". Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
6. "V de V Sports, courses automobiles d'endurance et de sprint -". Archived from the original on 2015-07-12. Retrieved 2015-07-10.

External links

• Official website