2018 Alpine Elf Europa Cup

The 2018 Alpine Elf Europa Cup was the inaugural season of the Alpine Elf Europa Cup, the one-make sports car racing series organized by Alpine for Alpine A110 Cup cars. It began on 27 April at Le Castellet and finished on 12 October, at Monza after six double-header meetings.

Entry List edit

Team No. Drivers Class Rounds
  CMR-CCF 2   Vincent Beltoise All
  Milan Competition 3   Denis Gibaud[N 1] G 6
8   Nicolas Milan All
9   Phillippe Bourgois G 1–2
  Jean-Marc Thévenot G 3
  Alessandro Sebasti Scalera G 5
12   Marc Guillot 2–3, 5–6
15   Gaël Castelli 4–6
77   Thomas Padovani All
  Sten Pentus[N 1] 5
  Racing Technology 4   Mathieu Blaise All
11   Sylvain Noël G All
110   Eric Helary[N 2] G G 1
  Thierry Soave[N 2] G G
  Paul Englert[N 2] G 2
  Bernard Romain[N 2] G 3
  Mathieu Sentis[N 2] G
  Oliver Webb[N 2] G 4
  Stéphane Lémeret[N 2] G G 5
  Jaime Hernandez[N 2] G 6
  Automeca-Super U 5   Stéphane Proux 1–2, 3, 5–6
  Emmanuel Guigou 1–2
  Automeca-RCC 7   Franc Rouxel G All
  Team VRT 9   Marc de Fulgencio[N 1] J 6
  Autosport GP 14   Marc Sevestre G 1, 3, 5
  Julien Neveu 2, 4, 6
17   Jean-Baptiste Mela J All
18   Pierre Macchi G 1–2, 4, 6
  Pierre Combot 3, 5–6
  Team Duty Car 29   Alessandro Sebasti Scalera G 1
  Lucas Lasserre 2–3
  Jean-Philippe Desplat[N 1] G 5
  CMR-GRR 33   Grégory Romano G 1–3, 5–6
  Autosport GP-Patrick Roger 69   Laurent Hurgon G All
  CMR 76   Pierre Sancinéna All
Icon Class
G Gentlemen
J Junior
G Guest

Race calendar and results edit

  • A five-round calendar was revealed along with the announcement of the series on 26 October 2017.[1] The schedule consisted of 5 circuits for the first year of the series with all rounds supporting either the International GT Open or the FFSA GT Championship.
Round Circuit Date Pole Position Race Winner Junior Winner Gentlemen Winner
1 R1   Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet 1 June   No. 76 CMR   No. 76 CMR   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 11 Racing Technology
  Pierre Sancinéna   Pierre Sancinéna   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Sylvain Noël
R2 2 June   No. 76 CMR   No. 2 CMR-CFF   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 11 Racing Technology
  Pierre Sancinéna   Vincent Beltoise   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Sylvain Noël
2 R1   Nürburgring 22 June   No. 76 CMR   No. 76 CMR   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 69 Autosport GP-Patrick Roger
  Pierre Sancinéna   Pierre Sancinéna   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Laurent Hurgon
R2 23 June   No. 76 CMR   No. 76 CMR   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 11 Racing Technology
  Pierre Sancinéna   Pierre Sancinéna   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Sylvain Noël
3 R1   Dijon-Prenois 14 July   No. 76 CMR   No. 76 CMR   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 11 Racing Technology
  Pierre Sancinéna   Pierre Sancinéna   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Sylvain Noël
R2 15 July   No. 8 Milan Competition   No. 12 Milan Competition   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 11 Racing Technology
  Nicolas Milan   Marc Guillot   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Sylvain Noël
4 R1   Silverstone Circuit 1 September   No. 110 Racing Technology   No. 110 Racing Technology   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 11 Racing Technology
  Oliver Webb   Oliver Webb   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Sylvain Noël
R2 2 September   No. 110 Racing Technology   No. 110 Racing Technology   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 11 Racing Technology
  Oliver Webb   Oliver Webb   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Sylvain Noël
5 R1   Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 22 September   No. 110 Racing Technology   No. 110 Racing Technology   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 69 Autosport GP-Patrick Roger
  Stéphane Lémeret   Stéphane Lémeret   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Laurent Hurgon
R2 23 September   No. 110 Racing Technology   No. 110 Racing Technology   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 11 Racing Technology
  Stéphane Lémeret   Stéphane Lémeret   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Sylvain Noël
6 R1   Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 21 October   No. 8 Milan Competition   No. 8 Milan Competition   No. 9 Team VRT   No. 11 Racing Technology
  Nicolas Milan   Nicolas Milan   Marc de Fulgencio   Sylvain Noël
R2 21 October   No. 69 Autosport GP-Patrick Roger   No. 8 Milan Competition   No. 17 Autosport GP   No. 11 Racing Technology
  Laurent Hurgon   Nicolas Milan   Jean-Baptiste Mela   Sylvain Noël

Drivers' Championship edit

Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top 20 drivers. If less than 75% of the race distance is completed then half points are awarded. If less than two laps are completed then no points are given.[2]

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th-20th PP FL
Points 20 15 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 1
Pos. Driver LEC
 
NÜR
 
DIJ
 
SIL
 
SPA
 
CAT
 
 Pts. 
1   Pierre Sancinéna 1 15 1 1 1 9 5 9 8 4 6 4 138
2   Nicolas Milan 2 2 3 3 11 7 8 5 5 7 1 1 137
3   Sylvain Noël 3 4 6 4 3 3 6 6 7 2 5 6 119
4   Jean-Baptiste Mela 4 3 15 5 Ret 2 4 7 4 6 9 5 101
5   Vincent Beltoise 10 1 16 6 5 5 2 3 6 8 Ret 14 99
6   Gaël Castelli 3 2 2 3 3 Ret 90
7   Marc Guillot 5 8 2 1 17 9 2 2 84
8   Laurent Hurgon 11 5 2 17 4 4 Ret 8 3 10 Ret 9 77
9   Julien Neveu 4 2 7 4 4 3 66
10   Thomas Padovani 5 6 11 13 8 11 10 Ret 9 10 7 39
11   Mathieu Blaise 16 10 7 10 9 12 9 10 11 12 8 10 33
12   Lucas Lasserre 17 9 7 6 17
13   Grégory Romano 8 13 12 14 14 15 14 14 11 12 16
14   Marc Sevestre 7 9 10 13 12 15 14
15   Franc Rouxel 13 14 14 15 16 17 12 11 15 16 12 16 13
16   Alessandro Sebasti Scalera 12 8 10 11 11
17   Pierre Combot 6 10 18 DNS Ret 10
18   Pierre Macchi 9 12 13 12 11 12 Ret 10
19   Emmanuel Guigou 7 10 8
20   Phillippe Bourgois 15 11 9 11 8
21   Stéphane Proux 14 16 15 16 16 17 13 15 8
22   Jean-Marc Thévenot 12 14 2
Drivers ineligible to score points
  Eric Helary 6
  Thierry Soave Ret
  Paul Englert 8 7
  Bernard Romain 13
  Mathieu Sentis 8
  Oliver Webb 1 1
  Stéphane Lémeret 1 1
  Jean-Philippe Desplat 13 13
  Sten Pentus 5
  Marc de Fulgencio 7 8
  Jaime Hernandez 14 11
  Denis Gibaud Ret 13
Pos. Driver LEC
 
NÜR
 
DIJ
 
SIL
 
SPA
 
CAT
 
 Pts. 

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d Drivers who started their first race of the season at the penultimate or final rounds are ineligible for points and invisible as far as awarding points to other drivers.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Guest drivers in the #110 Racing Technology entry are ineligible for points and invisible as far as awarding points to other drivers.

External links edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Alpine unveils its new race car – the Alpine A110 Cup - Groupe Renault". group.renault.com. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  2. ^ "SPORTING REGULATION ALPINE EUROPA CUP". Alpine Elf Europa Cup. Archived from the original on 2019-12-06.