LE MANS 8HRS FUN CUP – TOP 10 BECKONED…….UNTIL??
7 November 2025
Team Viking Ursus Capital returned to Fun Cup France action last weekend, as the Championship moved on to the Le Mans Bugatti Circuit.
Mark Holme was sharing with Nick Nunn, with Colin Kingsnorth unavailable. “In free practice we were consistently inside the top 10 and it was Nick’s first time there for years,” said Mark.
Into qualifying it was going well again, “then we had everything disallowed, but pushed hard in the final minutes and came out ninth quickest,” he added.
It was a 63 car field lining up for eight hours of action, with Holme in for the first stint and starting from third on the grid. He had continued to run inside the top 10 for the first eight laps, before completing the first hour 16th. “There was a full course yellow and we didn’t come in, that dropped us back. But we fought back and climbed the order again and by the end of the second hour were back to 11th,” he explained.
Nunn had taken over for the second stint and continued to run at top 10 pace. “It was so close in times, sometimes you lost ground quickly and sometimes you gained it, it was that close,” Mark explained.
After three hours they were still 12th, but a combination of the strategies working themselves out and Nunn being forced to pit to serve a penalty, they briefly dropped to 21st at the end of the next hour. “Nick took avoiding action, but was deemed to have overtaken off track and was penalised for it,” said Mark.
Once again they battled back to the edge of the top 10, lying 12th by the end of the fifth hour. “Then disaster struck between sixth and seventh hour, when we had a sensor fail in the transmission as we went under the Dunlop Bridge by the first chicane and had to be recovered,” he said.
They eventually rejoined and were back out for the final hour, to take the flag in 50th place. “It was so disappointing, as we had really good pace as our car seemed to suit the shorter track. It had been so good, the crew and the strategy had worked really well and without that electrical problem we would probably have been about eighth,” he concluded.