Formule France 1970
Interest in Formule France continued to rise and a new crop of budding talent took the places of Denis Dayan, Jimmy Mieusset and Jean-Luc Salomon. François Lacarrau stayed in the category with the factory Pygmée and his competition would come from a trio of drivers who would subsequently rise to Formula 2: Jacques Coulon, Alain Serpaggi and Christian Éthuin. As well as the change in drivers, there was also a major new constructor as Tecno moved into Formule France with the FP100 model.
So many competitors registered for the series that they were split into three groups for the first phase of the season with the top 40 drivers being allowed through to the second phase. Coulon's Martini MK4 won Group A with two wins and one second place from Roland Trollé who won the other two in races in his Tecno FP100; Serpaggi won the opening three races in Group B in an Alpine A361; and Alain Cudini walked away with Group C with three wins in his Martini despite the opening round going to Roger Dubos in his Grac MT10. At the end of this phase, Serpaggi led with 33 points from Cudini on 27 points and Coulon on 24. François Lacarrau was well down the field and suffered the ignominy of having to exchange the '1' he'd worn on his car for the first phase for a '17'. At this point he gave up on the Pygmée and swapped to a Martini MK4 in which he won four of the remaining ten races and pipped Coulon to the title by a narrow margin.
The races
22 Mar 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe A) at Albi
29 Mar 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe B) at Nogaro
05 Apr 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe C) at Pau
19 Apr 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe B) at Paul Ricard
26 Apr 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe A) at Montlhéry
03 May 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe C) at Magny Cours
10 May 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe A) at Clermont-Ferrand
24 May 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe B) at Montlhéry
31 May 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe C) at La Châtre
07 Jun 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe A) at Aeroport Dijon-Longvic
14 Jun 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe B) at Magny Cours
21 Jun 1970 > Critérium de Formule France (Groupe C) at Montlhéry
28 Jun 1970 > Rouen-les-Essarts
05 Jul 1970 > Clermont-Ferrand
14 Jul 1970 > Magny Cours
19 Jul 1970 > Paul Ricard
23 Aug 1970 > Magny Cours
20 Sep 1970 > Montlhéry
27 Sep 1970 > Le Mans-Bugatti
04 Oct 1970 > Montlhéry
11 Oct 1970 > Albi
01 Nov 1970 > Paul Ricard
1970 Critérium de Formule France table
| 1 | François Lacarrau | Pygmée MDB14B - Renault Bozian Martini MK4 - Renault Bozian | 104 pts | 4 wins |
| 2 | Jacques Coulon | Martini MK4 - Renault Francia | 96 pts | 6 wins |
| 3 | Christian Ethuin | Tecno FP 100 - Renault Trollé Tecno FP 100 - Renault Staïano Tecno FP 100 - Renault Beaulande | 80 pts | 1 win |
| 4 | Alain Serpaggi | Alpine A361 - Renault Leclère Alpine A361 - Renault Dudot Alpine A361 - Renault Bozian | 61 pts | 3 wins |
| 5 | Roland Trollé | Tecno FP 100 - Renault Trollé | 58 pts | 3 wins |
| 6 | Michel Leclère | Alpine A361 - Renault Leclère | 51 pts | 1 win |
| 7 | Alain Cudini | Martini MK4 - Renault Blaës | 37 pts | 3 wins |
| 8 | Pierre-François Rousselot | Martini MK4 - Renault Lagier | 35 pts | |
| 9 | Patrice Compain | Martini MK4 - Renault Lagier | 29 pts | |
| 10= | François Guerre-Berthelot | Tecno FP 100 - Renault Staïano Tecno FP 100 - Renault Beaulande | 26 pts | |
| 10= | Lucien Guitteny | Martini MK4 - Renault Lagier | 26 pts | |
| 12 | Roger Dubos | Grac MT10 - Renault Beaulande Tecno FP 100 - Renault Beaulande | 23 pts | 1 win |
| 13 | Jean-Louis Lafosse | Martini MK4 - Renault Lagier | 22 pts | |
| 14 | Gérard di Bartoloméo | Martini MK4 - Renault Francia | 13 pts | |
| 15 | Jacques Laffite | Martini MK4 - Renault Staïano | 10 pts | |
| 16 | Alain Jallot | Martini MK4 - Renault Staïano | 8 pts | |
| 17= | Jacques Foucteau | Martini MK4 - Renault Lagier | 7 pts | |
| 17= | Jean-Pierre Tonneline | Martini MK4 - Renault Blaës | 7 pts | |
| 19 | Jean-Pierre Espitallier | Martini MW2/MK4 - Renault Staïano | 6 pts | |
| 20= | Hughes de Chaunac | Martini MK4 - Renault Francia | 5 pts | |
| 20= | Jean-Pierre Moroni | Martini MK4 - Renault Lagier | 5 pts | |
| 22= | Gérard Cerruti | AGS JH5 - Renault Staïano | 4 pts | |
| 22= | François Rabbione | AGS JH5 - Renault Staïano | 4 pts | |
| 24= | Max Mamers | Alpine A340B - Renault | 3 pts | |
| 24= | Georges Coquillard | Pygmée MDB14B - Renault Bozian | 3 pts | |
| 24= | Philippe Lacarrau | Pygmée MDB14 - Renault Bozian | 3 pts | |
| 24= | Giuseppe Pasquale | Tecno FP 100 - Renault Blaës | 3 pts | |
| 28= | Bruno Chambas | Martini MK4 - Renault Bozian | 2 pts | |
| 28= | Jean Drewitz | Martini MK4 - Renault | 2 pts | |
| 28= | Patrick Duchamp | Tecno FP 100 - Renault Trollé Tecno FP 100 - Renault Staïano | 2 pts | |
| 28= | Marcel Morel | Elina SS - Renault Staïano | 2 pts | |
| 32= | Jean-Claude Alzérat | Grac MT10 - Renault Beaulande | 1 pt | |
| 32= | Michel Béal | Alpine A340B - Renault Sonnerat | 1 pt | |
| 32= | Fred Stalder | Alpine A340B - Renault Sonnerat | 1 pt |
After their successes in 1968 and 1969, Grac were focused on their F3 project and had only sold four MT10s. Roger Dubos' won at Pau but then the team went backwards and after the first few races of the second phase, Dubos abandoned the Grac and acquired a Tecno FP 100. Jean-Claude Alzérat continued in his MT10 but only scored a single point while Jean-Louis Deniau managed no better than an eighth place. Not one older Grac qualified for the second phase.
Martini took constructor honours with 13 victories in 22 races leaving Alpine and Tecno with four each. However, Alpine's wins proved to be misleading as they all came in the weaker qualifying Group B and they didn't win any of the second phase races. Tecno were stronger as the season went on but Martini's weight of numbers would be decisive: they had sold 23 MK4s compared with 12 Tecno FP100s. Just four new Pygmée MDB14Bs appeared and all had dismal seasons, although Jacques Coche was very fast during qualifying. One new constructor to score points was AGS who had built a pair of JH5s for Gérard Cerruti and François Rabbione and had some encouraging performances. Only two of the 1970 Elina SS model were even entered and the only one to make any impression was Marcel Morel's Staïano-engined example. New cars from Arpa, Cosna, Fournier Marcadier and Hampe were seen, as were older models from DAM, Hrubron, Jefa and Pellero.
Had the preparers had a championship, Bernard Lagier would have won on points but his engines did not win a race. Bernard Mangé, known as "Francia" or "Nanar", won six races thanks to Jacques Coulon; François Lacarrau's preparer Arthur Bozian won four and Alain Cudini's Louis Blaës and Roland Trollé three each. The four Alpine wins in the first phase were shared between Bernard Dudot at Société des Automobiles Alpine and Jean-Louis Leclère. The final two were credited to Marius Staïano and Robert Beaulande.