Born at a time where everything to do with historic racing was still to be imagined, ASAVÉ can boast that it was the instigator of historic racing on French circuits. 40 years later, that merited a celebration. 1972-2012 - L’Association Automobile des Véhicules d’Epoque, affectionately known by its acronym, is now entering its 40th year.
This fact was suitably celebrated at the Pavillon Dauphine in Paris, with some 200 guests present, amongst whom, naturally, were its most prestigious members,
Hubert Auriol and Jean-Claude Andruet and also all the successive presidents, starting with Philippe Renault, founder of ASAVÉ with Serge Pozzoli in that famous year of 1972, a year in which the current president and Morgan driver, Jérôme Servies, admitted that his dream at that time was to own “an R5 when I grow up”.
ASAVÉ can be proud to remind us that they were at the origins of the development of historic competition in France, starting with the most successful of French meetings, the famous Grand Prix de l’Age d’Or that they organised at Montlhéry until 2004. Amongst its activities, ASAVÉ continues to organise one of the most successful of French Championships, the Challenge ASAVÉ, which will soon inaugurate its 11th year of racing, and which this year will extend its cut-off date from 1976 to 1978 to allow, amongst others, the V6 Alpine A310s into the ASAVÉ fold.
