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.

2018 Alpine Elf Europa Cup

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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 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

• 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

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. 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. 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