What was the name of the racing series in which these cars competed, and what was the engine?
Experts?
European?
Francais?
Not 2cv powered ....?
Panhard?
Renault campus?
So this is not the French Formula 4?
There does seem to have been a Formula 3 based on 750cc - Renault 4cv, Saab etc. Is this it?
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 02, 2018, 02:06:37 PM
There does seem to have been a Formula 3 based on 750cc - Renault 4cv, Saab etc. Is this it?
It's not F4 or F3, but much more an unofficial class of racing. However, you have stumbled on the engine used.
hmmmm .... nothing is emerging from my google finger. Is this unofficial series purely for Renault 4cv powered single seaters?
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 05, 2018, 09:38:14 PM
hmmmm .... nothing is emerging from my google finger. Is this unofficial series purely for Renault 4cv powered single seaters?
They were all built with that engine, yes. Later versions used a Dauphine engine.
Are they circuit racers - as opposed to rally cross type racing.
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 06, 2018, 03:08:53 PM
Are they circuit racers - as opposed to rally cross type racing.
I don't know much about the races, but from the name I'd say it was a form of rallycross.
Epreuves de racer?
Does it have the words racer or Renault in it?
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 10, 2018, 10:58:12 AM
Does it have the words racer or Renault in it?
Neither. The 4CV engines were used simply because they were freely available, and although the machines took part in races, they were not circuit races as we know it, more offroad in nature.
The image comes from a French language site ;).
Perhaps it's my French, but I cannot find any reference to this. Would the year help - !963?
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 18, 2018, 07:46:15 PM
Perhaps it's my French, but I cannot find any reference to this. Would the year help - !963?
My notes suggest a date a few years later than that . Tell you what, since this is proving problematic, it's 1970.
Anything to do with Formeco?
Ha ... Formeco got me in. The series was called PROTOCROSS!!
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 19, 2018, 08:13:32 PM
Ha ... Formeco got me in. The series was called PROTOCROSS!!
Well done ! I don't know much more about it - the photo is from 1970, and the events were held in the Hauts de France region, up near the border with Belgium. I think it was just a bunch of friends who built and raced these cars, rather than being a formal ratified series.
Perseverance again TT ! I like it.
PS 200 points and rising.
Quote from: nicanary on August 20, 2018, 04:01:08 AM
I think it was just a bunch of friends who built and raced these cars, rather than being a formal ratified series.
Exactly. Later on it became the formal Autocross championship.