2 TOURS D’HORLOGE - OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 1 and 2, 2025 - D -15: THE NOT-TO-BE-MISSED EVENT!

The 2 Tours d’Horloge, the only competition in the world reserved for Historic Racing Cars held over a period of 24 hours without interruption, will bring the V de V Sports 2025 season to a glorious conclusion on the Paul Ricard circuit. With 40 registered teams assembling around a hundred drivers from thirteen nationalities at the wheel of GTs, Sports Prototypes and Touring Cars that have left their mark on history, the 2 Tours d’Horloge has been offering a unique and exceptional spectacle for over thirty years!

Created by Eric Van de Vyver in 1992, this new concept of endurance racing dedicated to VHCs is once again attracting many drivers and teams from France and abroad this year, as the list of entrants shows.

Let’s start with the current leader of the VHC V de V 2025 Endurance Ranking, Armand Mille, winner of the first two races of the season, who will join his Magny-Cours teammates, Maxime Guenat, Yves Scemama and Erwin France at the wheel of the Chevron B21 prepared by Equipe Europe.

Joint second in the hierarchy, Julien and Didier Gruau will team up with Pierre-Alain France at the wheel of the Chevron B16 also entered by Equipe Europe which, for the first time in the 2 Tours d’Horloge, has registered a third car – a BMW E30 – which will be driven by Yvan Mahé, founder of the highly regarded team in 1989, Dominique Guénat , Hervé Ordioni and Pierre Thiriet (winner of the European Le Mans Series in 2012, winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in LMP2 with Signatech Alpine in 2018 and 2019, LMP2 champion in the World Endurance Championship in 2019).

Eric Wassermann and Charles Veillard (Wassermann Racing) will defend their current third place in the 2025 VHC V de V Endurance rankings in their BMW 323 i supported by Bert Smeets and Patrick Carrier. In fourth place in the general classification, the trio of Vincent Delarche / Laurent Trichet / Nicolas Grue will team up in the 2 Tours d’Horloge with Thierry Lortal at the controls of a Caterham Super Seven, thus demonstrating the competitiveness and reliability of a machine with a very reasonable budget.

Among the favorites is also the winning duo of the 2024 VHC Endurance Challenge Damien Kohler and José Da Rocha who will be joined for this occasion by Jean-Jacques Renaut at the controls of the Porsche 911 3.0 RS prepared by Team Bersi .

WELL-KNOWN DRIVERS!

A former multi-disciplinary professional driver (F3000, IndyCar , Touring, Endurance, Dakar, etc.), Philippe Gache will also be at the start to join the fight for victory with teammates Monegasque rally ace Jean-Pierre Richelmi and his son Stéphane (LMP2 champion in the World Endurance Championship in 2016 and LMP2 winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans the same year, LMP2 vice-champion in the WEC in 2018 and 2019, LMP2 champion in the Asian Le Mans Series in 2017-2018 at the wheel of a Porsche 935 prepared by André Caruso.

Another team to follow is Lionspeed GP successfully competing in championships such as the GT World Challenge Europe, the 24h Series, the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. It will line up two Porsche 964s for really quick crews: Jose Garcia/ Timmo Mol/Roger and Steven Berndtston , as well as Jose Garcia/Patrick Kolb /Patric Niederhauser and Andreas Bakkerud (Norwegian driver, triple European champion and runner-up in the world rallycross championship).

Other Porsches on the grid include the 964s from HY Racing (Olivier Muytjens / Brice Pineau), CG Motorsport (Jean-Luc Blanchemain / Anthoni Vetro /Claude Rucheton /Alain Szyndelman ), Net’ Cuv Racing (Mickaël Desmaele /Ulric Amado), Duigou Racing (Philippe Burel /Bob Arezina /Patrick Bourguignon/Eric Mouez ), CSP Le Mans (Pierre Le Flem/Marc Chatellier /Jean-Marc Leveque ), Moderne Racing Team (Fabio Spirgi /Christophe Barth/Yvon Gindre/Mikael Lambotte ) and Team Zosh Classic (Jean-René De Fournoux / Jean-Bernard Bouvet – GT/Tourism, V de V Challenge Endurance champion in 2015, 2016 and 2018) / Nicolas Beloou / Christophe Billot). Not forgetting the Cup versions of the Salewsky team (Maxwell Polzler / Adrian Burry / Nick Salewsky ) and 2B Autosport for the trio Vandewoestyne and Michel Mitieus .

The only team currently with two crews in the Top 10, the Cudini Racing Team managed by Alain Cudini, former French Touring Car Champion with thirteen participations in the 24 Hours of Le Mans to his name, will be fielding a Porsche 944 S2 for Arnold Noret / Jacques Colibet / Philippe Vigneron. Among the other 944s, let’s mention the Skoal Bandit Turbo version for Hugo Mezard / Emilien Chayia / Nicolas and Antoine Doquin. Several 911 3.0s will also be at the start. Like that of the Mansfeld team for Serge Libens / Marc de Siebenthal / Henrique Gemperle / Jean-André Collard and the SC version entered by GT Classic for Philippe Baert / Stéphane Moreau / Sébastien Morales.

Other cars to watch include the irreplaceable TVR Griffith 200 from V de V shared by Eric Van de Vyver, the creator of the event, with Guillaume Maillard, Patrick Brossard and a surprise 4th teammate. As well as the Alpine A310 V6 for Jean-Charles Rédélé and his daughters Eve, Laure and Victoire, respectively son and granddaughters of Jean Rédélé, the founder of the brand. Or the De Tomaso Atlantic Racing Pantera GTS for Arnaud and Matthieu Gadais.

ALL CATEGORIES!

The Touring category will also be very richly endowed. With, to start, the Austin Mini 1300 of Team TH for the Thiefain trio associated with Hippolyte Collard, Team Giglio Racing’s Alfa Romeo 1750 GTAM for Paul and Maurizio Giglio / Denis Cartelle / Alain Verdenelli, WKMR’s Ford Mustang for Stéphane and Baptiste Guyot-Sionnest / Georges Rocchietta and that of Atelier Mustang which will be driven by Jean-Pierre Gagick – presenter of the Auto Moto show broadcast on the TF1 channel – seduced by the concept of the event to the point of returning for the third consecutive year associated this time with Jean-François Coget / Sylvain Tegoni / Matteo Boulet.

Several BMWs will also be at the start. Like the 635 Super Production of Atlantic Racing for Jean-Marie Belleteste / Pierre Aviron-Violet / Steve Goldin / Jose Oliverira , the 635 CSI of Chateaux Sport Auto for Paul Chateaux / Axel de Ferran and Sorg Rennsport’s 325i for Dirk Bierbaum /Werner Gloyna /Bernhard Wagner/Stefan Beyer.

Another top-tier category of the 2 Tours d’Horloge, the Sport Prototypes will make up a large part of the starting grid with, in addition to the models already mentioned, Atlantic Racing’s Chevron B8 (Oren Nataf /Geoffroy Peter/Patrick Bogaerts /Frédéric Marantier), the Chevron B16 of Chateaux Sport Auto (Matthieu and Jean-Baptiste Chateaux) and B16 Bi-rotor of (Romain Belleteste /Christophe Gadais /Daniel Roustan/Serge Kriknoff ) and Atlantic Racing’s Chevron B19 run by the Cotes du Rhône Racing Team (François Rivaz /Frank Belstippler /Alexander Furiani). Without forgetting the Crossle 47S of the “Les quatre fantastics ” outfit for Florent Cazalot / Maxime Jouvin / Romain Lachieze and the 9S- Zetec version for Xavier Michel / Christian Vaglio – Giors / Gislain Genecand.

For the first time, the race can be followed live on the V de V Sports YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@vdevsports3476

2 ASAVE GRIDS, THE LOTUS TROPHY AND THE CLUBS

While the 2 Tours d’Horloge will occupy a large part of the track time during the weekend, the two ASAVE (Association Sportive Automobile des Véhicules d’Epoque) grids will offer a total of around fifty competition cars divided into ASAVE Racing 65 reserved for GT, Touring and two-seater Sports (1600 cm³ max) cars from before 66 and ASAVE Racing 76 reserved for GT and Touring from 1966 to 1976, and Group 1 up to 1981. As well as the hotly contested Lotus Trophy which will have around forty entries.

Vintage and sports car clubs will once again be in the limelight this year and will be able to participate in a big parade of clubs and collectors on the famous Paul Ricard circuit on Saturday, November 1st from 11:45 to 12:05. Registration on the following link: : https://buy.stripe.com/eVqaEWeIKbRyeCjgnl0ZW02

There will also be numerous exhibitors in the circuit paddock offering the public the opportunity to find the item or service they are looking for. List of exhibitors: SODIPNEU, DANIELSON EQUIPEMENT, STAND 21, TEAM FJ, PITSTOP Restaurant, SHOP RACING, BJ TURBO, WATCHPASSIONNER, MC WATCHES, VROOM VROOM and BENSON & CHERRY at the V de V Boutique.

Membership in the V de V Club provides paddock and grid access walks, as well as a poster of the event via the following link:https://buy.stripe.com/9B65kC7gicVC79R7QP0ZW00

BENSON & CHERRY

Partner of V de V SPORTS, the ready-to-wear brand Benson & Cherry will of course be present at the 2 Tours d’Horloge with its ambassador Armand Mille, current leader of the VHC Endurance Challenge.

Find the V de V x Benson & Cherry T-shirt on sale at the V de V store on the circuit and online at:https://www.bensonandcherry.com/les-autos/2869-43369-t-shirt-noir-edition-vdev-x-benson-cherry.html#/6-taille-s/10-coloris-noir