PMW 2CV 24 hour race!

The Professional MotorSport World Expo 24 Hour Citroën 2CV takes 2nd place in 2010 Enduro!

The Professional MotorSport World Expo-backed Citroën 2CV returned for a second attempt to clinch victory in the now legendary 2CV 24-hour race at Snetterton in the UK.

The team led the race briefly in 2009, before some unfortunate technical glitches ended any realistic chance of a win, so this year expectations of a good result were high. A very solid qualifying session had seen the car qualify strongly in second place, so the team was able to see that the potential for victory was certainly there.

As with all 24-hour races, consistency is the key, and the driver line-up of Professional MotorSport World Expo founder Tony Robinson; ex-Porsche Carrera Cup racer Lewis Hopkins; and Caterham 24-hour racing veteran Peter Haynes established a game-plan that placed reliability and solid, competitive lap times at the top of the agenda. To attempt flat-out, qualifying-style laps for an entire day and night is seldom going to win you a race like this.

For the main part the race went exactly according to plan, but as is nearly always the case in 24-hour racing, the occasional unscheduled pit stop will always hamper perfect progress. In the end, after 24 hours of hard physical and mental graft, and a typical late British summer that threw sun, rain and wind at the drivers, the Professional MotorSport World Expo car finished the race in a very respectable second place, a handful of laps behind the consistently quick and reliable winning car.

 

Top image courtesy of Maria Cooke. Other images courtesy of Simon Edmands.

2009 PMW 2CV 24 hour race report - CLICK HERE

2008 PMW 2CV 24 hour race report - CLICK HERE