Gérard Lopez, owner of the Girondins de Bordeaux and former LOSC, won the Grand Prix de France Historique on the circuit Paul-Ricard du Castellet on Sunday. Former owner of the Formula 1 team Lotus Renault, which he bought in 2009 and which he held until 2022, Gérard Lopez is a motorsport enthusiast. At the same time, he won the Grand Prix de France Historique on the circuit Paul-Ricard du Castellet. He was in a team with Switzerland’s Marcel Fässler, three-time winner of Le Mans. The duo ahead of McLaren’s Executive Director Zak Brown in Formula 1 and former Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat.

Parallel to this victory, the situation of the Girondins de Bordeaux was tense on Sunday. A delegation of the Ultramarines was to meet the Girondins’ “whole of management”, but the presence of Gérard Lopez on the circuit was a source of frustration for the fans. Currently resident of National 2, the team will not be promoted to National at the end of the season, the promotion being no longer accessible. Remember that the Bordeaux formation was administratively relegated from the second to the fourth division last summer.