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

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
	77	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	1
		Paul Englert^{[N 2]}	G	2
		Bernard Romain^{[N 2]}	G	3
		Mathieu Sentis^{[N 2]}	G	3
		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
Automeca-Super U	5	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
	14	Julien Neveu		2, 4, 6
	17	Jean-Baptiste Mela	J	All
	18	Pierre Macchi	G	1–2, 4, 6
	18	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

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
	R1		1 June	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
	R2		2 June	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
	R1		22 June	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
	R2		23 June	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
	R1		14 July	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
	R2		15 July	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
	R1		1 September	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
	R2		2 September	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
	R1		22 September	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
	R2		23 September	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
	R1		21 October	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
	R2		21 October	Laurent Hurgon	Nicolas Milan	Jean-Baptiste Mela	Sylvain Noël

Drivers' Championship

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

1 2 3 4 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.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Guest drivers in the #110 Racing Technology entry are ineligible for points and invisible as far as awarding points to other drivers.

External links

Official website Archived 2020-09-11 at the Wayback Machine

References

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

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[FinalRacePoints-1] 1 2 3 4 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.

[GuestDriverPoints-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Guest drivers in the #110 Racing Technology entry are ineligible for points and invisible as far as awarding points to other drivers.

[3] "Alpine unveils its new race car – the Alpine A110 Cup - Groupe Renault". group.renault.com. Retrieved 2019-12-05.

[4] "SPORTING REGULATION ALPINE EUROPA CUP". Alpine Elf Europa Cup. Archived from the original on 2019-12-06.

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