The unmissable Magny-Cours circuit will be the scene this weekend of the opening of the 2020 season of the Porsche Carrera Cup France, as part of the French Circuits Championship. On the program, the first two of the ten races on the calendar, for a strong field of twenty-three entries.

For its debut in the Nièvre, the 2020 Porsche Carrera Cup France will certainly look like a Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup. Great animators of the 2020 Supercup vintage, Ayhancan Güven, two victories on the clock, and Jaxon Evans, a success to his credit, will indeed meet in the French Cup to continue their duel. With the goal for the Turkish, two outgoing winner of the Porsche Carrera Cup France, to pocket a third coronation with the Martinet by Almeras team, while the 23-year-old New Zealander, also Porsche Junior, will have the mission to carry high the colors of the Austrian team BWT Lechner Racing, which arrives in force on French soil with no less than four 911 GT3 Cups entered.

Marvin Klein (Martinet by Alméras), the 2019 Rookie runner-up, Adam Eteki, Junior Porsche Carrera Cup France 2019 and spearhead of the new CLRT team created by Côme Ledogar & Tugdual Rabreau or Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer (BWT Lechner Racing ), have also gone to warm up in Supercup, and they will therefore have to be reckoned with for the Pro category. Like Victor Blugeon (Pierre Martinet by Alméras), Rookies Evan Spenle (Sébastien Loeb Racing) and Victor Weyrich (Pierre Martinet by Alméras), the Junior Porsche Carrera Cup France 2020, not to mention Richard Wagner (BWT Lechner Racing ) or Alessio Picariello (Pierre Martinet by Alméras), lined up in apprenticeship for Le Mans where he will officially represent the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia.

The races promise to be fiercely contested in the other categories: Am and Pro-Am. With a new duel announced in Pro-Am between Christophe Lapierre (Sébastien Loeb Racing), in search of a sixth crown, and Nicolas Misslin (BWT Lechner Racing), double winner out of the category. However Sylvain Noël (Racing Technology), back in a Cup in which he notably finished second in 2011, Stéphane Denoual (Pierre Martinet by Alméras) and Jérôme Boullery (Racing Technology), the 2019 Am champion, do not do not necessarily hear that way.

Created last year, this latest Am category once again demonstrates its merits by attracting no less than seven competitors, including Emil Caumes (CLRT), already seen in 2019, but also a host of newcomers. Like Steve Brooks (CLRT), but also Tugdual Rabreau (CLRT), François Lansard (CLRT), Maxence Maurice (Imsa Performance), Mathieu Blaise (Racing Technology) and Franck Leherpeur (Racing Technology).

Scheduled for Saturday September 12 at 11 a.m., qualifying practice will allow us to establish a first hierarchy for this 2020 season, which promises to be particularly intense. Before the two races of half an hour each, scheduled Saturday at the end of the day (6.15 p.m.) then Sunday at the end of the morning (11:55), really start the debates.