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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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 Méla 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.

References
  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.
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