V de V Series was 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. The championships came to a halt at the end of the 2018 and V de V Sports focussed on long distance endurance races for historic GT and touring car racing, in particular centred on the 24 hour race, 2 Tours d'Horloge.

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.

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:

YearChampionCar 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).

YearChampionCar 2008 Jacques Fontbonne Funyo 4 RC 2009 David Monclair Funyo 4 RC 2010 François Hériau 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:

YearChampionCar 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:

YearChampionCar 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:

YearChampionCar 2007 Miguel Langin Bernard Moreau Porsche 911 3.0 RSR 2008 Patrick Biehler Marc de Siebenthal Porsche 911 3.0 RSRYearPrototypeGTChampionCarChampionCar 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

External links Official website