Peugeot Sport is the department of French carmaker

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responsible for

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activities.

History

Beginnings in rallying

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Peugeot Sport was formed in 1981 under the name of Peugeot Talbot Sport, after Jean Todt, a World Rally Championship co-driver for

Talbot Talbot was an automobile marque introduced in 1902 by English-French company Clément-Talbot. The founders, Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury and Adolphe Clément-Bayard, reduced their financial interests in their Clément-Talbot ...

driver Guy Fréquelin, was asked by Peugeot to create a sporting department for the PSA Peugeot Citroën group. The

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team, established at 8, rue Paul Bert, Boulogne-Billancourt (the racing team will leave those premises in July 1990 to go to Vélizy) near

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, debuted its Group B

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in the 1984 season, and took its first victory in Rally Finland in the hands of Ari Vatanen. In the 1985 season, Peugeot drivers Vatanen and

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won seven out of the 12 rounds to give Peugeot its first manufacturers' title and Salonen the drivers' title. Vatanen had been seriously injured in an accident in Argentina in 1985, so was replaced by

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for the 1986 season, who promptly delivered the team the second consecutive title. The FIA banned Group B cars for the 1987 season after the fatal accident of

Henri Toivonen Henri Pauli Toivonen (25 August 1956 – 2 May 1986) was a Finland, Finnish rallying, rally driver born in Jyväskylä, the home of Rally Finland. His father, Pauli Toivonen, Pauli, was the 1968 European Rally Championship, European Rally C ...

. This lead Peugeot to switch to

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, using the 205 to win the Dakar Rally for two consecutive years in 1987 to 1988, and then used the

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to win in 1989 and 1990. Peugeot Talbot Sport also participated three times at the Pikes Peak Hillclimb Race in 1987, 1988 and 1989, winning the last two years, as well as in 2013 with the 208 T16.

Move to sportscars

In endurance racing Peugeot Talbot Sport established their sportscar team at Vélizy-Villacoublay, France and in November 1988 launched the Peugeot 905 project, to develop a sportscar to begin competing in the

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in the

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. The 905 made its racing debut in the final two races of the 1990 season, and finished second in the 1991 season. In the

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, Peugeot Talbot Sport won the

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, with drivers Derek Warwick, Yannick Dalmas and Mark Blundell. They also won the 1992 World Sportscar Championship, thanks to Warwick, Dalmas, Philippe Alliot and

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. The championship did not run in 1993, but Peugeot were able to take a 1–2–3 finish at the

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, with

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, Christophe Bouchut and Geoff Brabham driving the winning car. Peugeot Talbot Sport subsequently pulled out of sportscar racing. Jean Todt, meanwhile, left Peugeot for

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Formula One

Peugeot switched to

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for , using a similar 3.5L V10 engine as found in the 905. This was easily developed to be used by

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in 1994. However, poor reliability led to the relationship ending at the end of 1994 after 8 podiums, zero victories and 17 DNF's and thus

elected to switch to works

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-built

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from season onwards. This led to Peugeot supplying Jordan Grand Prix in , , and with 5 podiums as best results, before supplying the new Prost Grand Prix team for the , and seasons and thus Prost Grand Prix earned Peugeot's direct factory support. After a pointless 2000 season where poor reliability matched with Prost inability to deliver a competitive chassis, plus having scored no wins since their debut, led to the French marque pulling the plug out of F1 after 115 Grand Prix entries with just only 14 podiums scored. The Peugeot engines were bought by an Asian consortium led by former F1 designer

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called

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and used for two further years (in 2001 for Arrows team and in 2002 for

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team). The Asiatech engines were both reliable, powerful and were supplied at zero cost, but its poor driveability led to both teams replacing them in favor of more costly but more capable Cosworth units.

Touring car racing

Peugeot entered the

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in 1992, preparing

's for former champion

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. The team was run in-house from the company's UK factory in

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. The 405 never won a race despite promising results in its four seasons of competition, before being replaced in 1996 by the

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. Unfortunately Peugeot UK did not share any technical data with its European contemporaries, and the BTCC programme suffered. Peugeot handed the works deal to Motor Sport Developments for 1997 and 98, but wins still eluded the team. With spiralling costs in the series, Peugeot withdrew from the BTCC at the end of 1998. With his

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won the 1997 Super Tourenwagen Cup season. The Peugeot 306 GTi won the prestigious Spa 24 hours endurance race in 1999 and 2000. Peugeot won five times the Danish Touringcar Championship, with both the Peugeot 306 -winner in 1999, 2000 and 2001– and the Peugeot 307 winner in 2002 and 2003. Peugeot has been racing successfully in the

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, winning the 2000, 2001, and 2002 championships with the Peugeot 306 GTi. In 2001, Peugeot entered three 406 Coupés into the British Touring Car Championship to compete with the dominant

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Coupés. However, the 406 Coupé was not competitive, despite some promise towards the end of the year, notably when Peugeot's Steve Soper led a race only to suffer engine failure in the last few laps. The 406 Coupés were retired at the end of the following year and replaced with the

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—again, uncompetitively—in 2003. Peugeot has been racing successfully in the Stock Car Brasil series since 2007 and won the 2008, 2009, and 2011 championships. Peugeot Argentina has participated in

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, where it has also won championships. In 2013, the

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GTi won a one-two-three at the

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endurance race.

Return to rallying

In 1999, Peugeot Sport returned to the World Rally Championship with the

Peugeot 206 WRC The Peugeot 206 WRC is a World Rally Car based on the Peugeot 206. It was used by Peugeot Sport, Peugeot's factory team, in the World Rally Championship from 1999 to 2003. The car brought Peugeot the manufacturers' world title three years in a ro ...

, under the guidance of director

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. The car debuted at the Tour de Corse, with

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driving one car and Gilles Panizzi and

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sharing the second car over the remaining events. Grönholm finished fourth on the car's third event, Rally Finland, before Panizzi finished second on

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. In 2000, Grönholm gave the car its first victory at

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, and followed this up with wins in New Zealand, Finland and Australia on his way to the Drivers’ championship. Panizzi won in Corsica and Sanremo, giving Peugeot the Manufacturers’ championship. In 2001, Didier Auriol joined the team, replacing Delecour as the main driver alongside Grönholm. Panizzi and Harri Rovanperä also drove additional cars for the team on selected events. Rovanperä won round two in Sweden, as Grönholm struggled with retirements during the first half of the year. Auriol won in Spain, Grönholm won in Finland, Australia and Great Britain, and Panizzi won in Italy. The team retained their manufacturers’ crown, even though Grönholm was the best placed driver in the drivers’ standings, in fourth place. Rovanperä was fifth, Auriol eighth and Panizzi ninth. For 2002, the team signed

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, the 2001 champion, from Subaru, replacing Auriol in the team. Grönholm won round two in Sweden, before Panizzi took back-to-back wins in France and Spain. Grönholm won the next event in Cyprus, before he and Burns were disqualified for a technical infringement in Argentina. Grönholm won again in Finland, while Panizzi won his third event of the year in Italy. Grönholm completed back-to-back victories in New Zealand and Australia to take his second drivers’ title. Burns finished the season fifth, ahead of Panizzi and Rovanperä in sixth and seventh. Peugeot were able to take a third consecutive Manufacturers’ title. The driver lineup remained the same for 2003, with Marlboro joining as title sponsor. Grönholm won in Sweden yet again, and took another two wins in New Zealand and Argentina. Panizzi picked up another win in Spain. Poised to rejoin Subaru in 2004, Burns was ruled out of action ahead of the final round of the season in Great Britain, having suffered a blackout while driving to the event. He was replaced for the event and the 2004 season by Belgian

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. Burns finished the season fourth in the standings, ahead of Grönholm in sixth. Peugeot lost its manufacturers crown to

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Peugeot introduced a new car for the 2004 season, the 307 WRC, which was based upon the coupé cabriolet version of the 307 road car. Having originally not been part of the team at the start of the season, Rovanperä replaced Loix after two rounds in the team's second car alongside Grönholm, who struggled with the new car initially. He took the team's only victory of the season in Finland, and he finished fifth in the standings at the end of the season. Peugeot finished fourth in the manufacturers’ standings. For 2005, Peugeot signed

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from Ford to partner Grönholm. Once again, it took until Grönholm won Rally Finland yet again in August for the team to win. Two rallies later, in Great Britain, Märtin's co-driver Michael Park was killed after the pair's 307 WRC left the road. Märtin subsequently pulled out of the World Rally Championship. Daniel Carlsson and

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both filled in for him during the final four events. Grönholm took a second win of the season in Japan, on his way to third in the standings. Peugeot finished second in the manufacturers’ standings. At the end of 2005, PSA Peugeot Citroën withdrew its two teams from the WRC. Citroën took a year out to develop a new car and returned in 2007, but Peugeot did not return to the WRC. Peugeot Sport created the

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, a rally car built to

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regulations. Peugeot Sport enter the cars, run by Kronos Racing, in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC). Peugeot drivers

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, Nicolas Vouilloz and

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won the IRC drivers' title in 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively. It was replaced by 208 T16, which competes under R5 Regulations.

Return to sportscars

Under the guidance of new director Michel Barge, Peugeot Sport returned to sportscar racing for 2007, taking on the dominant

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with the

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. The car made its debut at the

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, the opening round of the

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. The pairing of

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and Nicolas Minassian took the car to victory. At the

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took pole position for the team ahead of the Audis. In the race, the #8 car of Sarrazin,

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and Sébastien Bourdais finished second behind the #1 Audi. After Le Mans, Sarrazin and Lamy took the Le Mans Series title for Peugeot. At the

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, Peugeot and Sarrazin once again took pole position, locking out the first three places on the grid. In the race, the trio of cars finished in second, third and fifth. In the Le Mans Series, Peugeot lost out to Audi again, Minassian and Gené finishing in second place. At the beginning of 2009, PSA Peugeot Citroën made Citroën Sport director Olivier Quesnel the director of Peugeot Sport too. At the

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, Sarrazin set his third consecutive pole position for the team. In the race, the team delivered its first Le Mans victory since 1993, with the trio of

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, Gené and Alexander Wurz winning ahead of the car driven by Franck Montagny, Bourdais and Sarrazin. The team's third car finished the race in sixth position. The team only contested one round of the Le Mans Series season, at Spa as preparation for Le Mans itself. Peugeot scored a 1–2 finish at the

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. However, reliability problems for the 908 at the

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meant that Audi finished 1–2–3 at the race. At the

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, the older Peugeot 908 HDi FAP owned by Oreca Racing had a surprise win over the factory 908s and Audi R15++s. At the

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, Peugeot saw itself in a position to win after two of the Audi R18s crashed; only a strong effort from Audi kept Peugeot from winning the race. The winning Audi was only 13 seconds ahead of the second-place Peugeot 908. On 18 January 2012 Peugeot Sport announced its withdrawal from sportscar racing, citing lowering car sales and the economic downturn as reasons. A return, however, was not ruled out if funds can be procured for the future, but not likely before 2015. On 13 November 201
Peugeot announced
that they will take part in the 2022 WEC season in the newly created "Hypercar" class, which makes the brand's return to the sports car racing landscape after an 11-year absence. During the

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, the CEO of

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Group

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unveiled renders of the new Peugoet Hypercar, and in December 2020 Peugeot and

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unveiled the powertrain called the

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(this platform was born in 2012 with the unveil of the 2012 hybrid-spec of the Peugeot 908), with aerodynamics completed in partnership with Ligier. On 8 February 2021 Peugeot revealed a driver line-up consisting of Loic Duval, Jean-Éric Vergne, Mikkel Jensen,

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, Paul Di Resta, and

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, as well as James Rossiter as simulator/reserve driver for the WEC 2022 season. Rossiter was later promoted to full-time driver after Magnussen was announced to be driving for the

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, thus leaving him unavailable for WEC.

Return to Pikes Peak Hillclimb Race

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Bobby Unser Robert William Unser (February 20, 1934 – May 2, 2021) was an American automobile racer. At his induction into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1994, he had the fourth most IndyCar Series wins at 35 (behind his brother Al, A. J. Fo ...

, in the late 1980s, won the Pikes Peak Hillclimb Race, Peugeot Sport and Sébastien Loeb decided to unite their respective strengths and go for it. In April 2013, a 208 T16 was tested by Sébastien Loeb at Mont Ventoux. Loosely based on the shape and design of the production 208, the T16 is a lightweight vehicle that uses the rear wing from the Peugeot 908, and has a 3.2-litre, twin-turbo V6 engine, developing with the aim of competing at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. On 30 June 2013 this car demolished the standing record on Pikes Peak by over a minute and a half, with an overall time of 8:13.878.

Detailed results

Formula One (1994–2000)

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World Sportscar Championship (1991–1992)

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Intercontinental Le Mans Cup for Manufacturers (2010–2011)

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FIA World Endurance Championship (2022–)

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References

External links

* * {{FIA World Endurance Championship teams Peugeot French auto racing teams 24 Hours of Le Mans teams American Le Mans Series teams European Le Mans Series teams World Sportscar Championship teams World Rally Championship teams Formula One engine manufacturers British Touring Car Championship teams Companies established in 1981 Companies based in Paris-Saclay French racecar constructors Official motorsports and performance division of automakers Automotive companies of France Intercontinental Rally Challenge teams European Rally Championship teams World Rallycross Championship teams Dakar rally racing teams FIA World Endurance Championship teams World Touring Car Championship teams

History

Beginnings in rallying

Move to sportscars

Formula One

Touring car racing

Return to rallying

Return to sportscars

Return to Pikes Peak Hillclimb Race

Detailed results

Formula One (1994–2000)

World Sportscar Championship (1991–1992)

Intercontinental Le Mans Cup for Manufacturers (2010–2011)

FIA World Endurance Championship (2022–)

See also

References

External links