Sebastien Ogier has been confirmed for the first six WRC events of 2009 in a Citroen Sport C4 WRC

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Citroen Sport boss Olivier Quesnel has confirmed the expected news that Sebastien Ogier will drive a C4 WRC on the first six World Rally Championship events in 2009.

Quesnel made the announcement at the end of year awards ceremony held this week by the French motorsports federation (FFSA). Reigning JWRC champion Ogier had an impressive debut in the C4 on Wales Rally GB where he set fastest times… Continue reading

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Olivier Quesnel appointed as director of both Citroen Sport and Peugeot Sport

Olivier Quesnel is to take up the new role as director of both Citroen Sport and Peugeot Sport from 1st January 2009, according to wrc.com.

Quesnel has been director of Citroen Sport since January 2008 and was involved in the setting up of Peugeot Talbot Sport with Jean Todt in 1980.

PSA Peugeot Citroen group issued a statement saying Quesnel’s appointment would hopefully enable it to achieve two objectives. The first objective being… Continue reading

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Urmo Aava tested a Subaru S14 WRC recently and says he has a 2 million euro budget for 2009

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Urmo Aava recently tested a Subaru S14 and had a meeting with Prodrive about the possibility of driving… Continue reading

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Sebastien Ogier to contest first six rounds of 2009 WRC in a third works Citroen Sport C4

Sebastien Ogier has been confirmed to compete on the first six WRC events of the 2009 season in a works Citroen C4, according to www.wrcisfree.com  .

He will drive a third works car in the “M1″ Citroen… Continue reading

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Olivier Quesnel has confirmed that Citroen will run an M2 team next year and Rautenbach will be one of the drivers

Olivier Quesnel has confirmed at Rally Japan that Citroen Sport will run a Manufacturer “M2″ Team on the 2009 WRC alongside the “M1″ team.

Citroen boss Quesnel stated that Conrad Rautenbach was confirmed as one of the drivers and a, ”young fast driver” would be his team-mate.

He then said, “You can guess!” 

Obviously he wasn’t prepared to confirm who it would be yet but Quesnel did state an announcement… Continue reading

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Key VW Motorsport figures at Rallye Deutschland while Citroen employees sighted at latest DTM race at Nurburgring

Senior Volkswagen personnel were present at Rally Germany last weekend as reported by rallye-magazin.de. Michel Bernard and Uwe Balds, two senior figures from the VW Motorsport department, were present. Uwe Balds is responsible for press activities at VW Motorsport.

This visit adds further speculation that VW will commit to a WRC programme, incorporating the new regs, after VW motorsports boss Kris Nissen visited Rally Finland earlier in the month.

Michel Bernard, who is a… Continue reading

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