
2025 KGPFH: A PASSION FOR RECORDS
With even more attendance than last year, the KENNOL Grand Prix de France Historique 2025 has been a huge success. From April 25 to 27, the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet hosted the unmissable F1 event for motorsport enthusiasts. This exceptional communion once again was a tribute to the history of motor racing, to a legacy of drivers and cars, that maintain the flame of thermic engines for a long time.
▌KGPFH 7TH EDITION
The KGPFH 2025 goes far beyond racing. With a paddock fully open to the public, visitors enjoyed themed exhibitions, autograph sessions with mythical drivers, vintage car parades, driving simulators, and family-friendly attractions. Fans also witnessed live pit stop demonstrations and explored an exclusive showcase of prestige vehicles. The main brands showcasing this year were of course Ferrari and Renault. Which made of this unique weekend the biggest Formula 1 meeting ever. Ever.
Organized by HVM Racing in partnership with the French Federation of Sports Auto, the rendez-vous turned into an absolute major one those last years. The perfect cradle of the Circuit Paul Ricard Formula 1 track brings to the organization an incredible glamourous atmosphere. And the audience loves that, and showed up in mass, even more than last year’s 80.000 spectators!
On the track, this 7th edition offered an amazing lineup. This single photo, above, sums up more than 5 F1 World Champion titles, 1.478 races in F1 World Championship, 99 Grand Prix wins, 112 pole positions and more than 300 podiums.
I see more fans here today than when I won my 5 F1 Grand Prix on this circuit!
Alain PROST, 4x Formula 1 World Champion
Apart from being the title-sponsor, KENNOL was also racing, with our own KENNOL Racing Team factory team. No less than 4 cars and 6 drivers were scheduled to demo or race during the weekend, under very various categories. Aperfect display for the variety and performance of our KENNOL ULTIMA range of products.
With 1 GT (Mercedes-AMG GT3) and 3 single-seaters (Formula Renault 3.5, Formula Masters, etc.), the team had to fulfill all the stints from Friday to Sunday evening, finishing with a win in the last race of this KGPFH 2025, and podiums earlier in the weekend.
▌PROXIMITY EFFECT
What drives more and more fans each year to the KENNOL Grand Prix de France Historique is the proximity effect. They can access ANY part of the circuit. They can almost touch the cars. They see the mecanics work and operate from closer than they would do themselves on their own car. And that accessibility to the actors and the machines is the best way to pass the passion.
To broaden the KGPFH family, this year, organisators invited the famed Masters Group C, that made a part of the 24h Le Mans glory. Another noble slice of racing cars history that not only looks good still, but also delivered some of the best roaring sounds on track this weekend! The ability to see and listen to all this various cars in the same place is a gift, and kids discover the basics of engine recognition with their parents and grand-parents in this mythical place.
Romain MONTI, French driver, champion, and YouTube star, took advantage of this opportunity to drive with the KENNOL Racing Team to fulfill a dream and took the wheel of one of our FR 3.5, an equivalent of a Formula 2 in the 2010’s. His ascension to driving, eventually, a Formula 1, is surely on its way, even more with the connections made during the KGPFH.
Oh that’s exceptionnal! Beautiful cars, and moreover the atmosphere is crazy! It really is a great event.
Charles LECLERC, Scuderia Ferrari F1 driver, Vice-World Champion
This atmosphere, that’s something you can share at the Driver’s Club. Enjoy your meal with teams, drivers, go out on the terrasse above the pits, have a drink with friends and clients while staring at the grid preparation, etc. Once again, the unique features and proximity of the event make the difference.
For the high notes of this amazing reunion, Fernando ALONSO’s Renault F1 R25, the one that won the F1 double title in 2005, “sang” the French Hymn “The Marseillaise”, at the sound of its glorious V10, on the starting grid! And then blew up its engine on track, sadly.
Once again, this major event of the year, and the only one to showcase Formula 1s in France, was a blast. And we can’t wait to announce something soon regarding the next edition: the KENNOL Grand Prix de France Historique 2026 (8th Edition).