Full name | Citroën Junior Team |
---|---|
Base | ![]() |
Team principal(s) | Benoit Nogier |
Chassis | Citroën DS3 WRC |
Tyres | Michelin |
World Rally Championship history | |
Debut | 2009 Rally Ireland |
Last event | 2012 Rally Catalunya |
Manufacturers' Championships | 0 |
Drivers' Championships | 0 |
Rally wins | 3 |
The Citroën Junior Team was a World Rally Championship team that competed in the 2009, 2010 and 2012 seasons. It was established as a second team for the Citroën brand and was presented as a vehicle to develop young talent.
The team was also the flagship WRC team for Citroën Racing's customer racing department, Citroën Racing Technologies (CRT), which was in existence between 2007 and 2012. As with all of CRT's customer privateers and team, the Citroën Junior Team was run on events by third-party preparation firm PH Sport.[1][2][3]
History
[edit]Background
[edit]PH Sport and Citroën Sport Technologies[a] ran semi-privateer Citroën C4 WRCs for Conrad Rautenbach and Urmo Aava during the 2008 World Rally Championship season.[4]
2009
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The Citroën Junior Team was formed in 2009 following the withdrawal of manufacturers Subaru and Suzuki. It ran Citroën C4s for Russian Evgeny Novikov, Zimbabwean Conrad Rautenbach and Junior World Rally Championship champion Sébastien Ogier. It ran former Subaru driver Chris Atkinson rather than Novikov on the season-opening Rally Ireland, although despite a good performance, the Australian did not feature in the team again. Petter Solberg was nominated to score manufacturer points for the team at Rally GB.[5] Solberg finished fourth there, with another driver of Citroën Junior Team Aaron Burkart finishing 12th in his first WRC rally with WRC car.
2010
[edit]On 4 December 2009, it was announced that 2007 Formula One World Champion Kimi Räikkönen would drive for the Junior Team for his switch to rallying.[6] Räikkönen's co-driver would be Kaj Lindström who had partnered multiple world champion Tommi Mäkinen in the past, while Sébastien Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia were in a second car for the Junior Team.
Räikkönen and Lindström contested 12 out of the 13 rounds in the 2010 WRC season, missing only the Rally of New Zealand. They did not start at 2010 Rally Catalunya because of a crash at the pre-event shakedown.
Sébastien Ogier claimed Citroën Junior Team's best result, winning at 2010 Rally de Portugal. Because of his strong finishes he was promoted to Citroën World Rally Team for gravel rallies (Finland, Japan, Wales) while Dani Sordo switched to Citroën Junior Team for those rallies. The best result for Kimi Räikkönen was 5th place at 2010 Rally of Turkey.
2011
[edit]The 'Junior Team' banner was dropped for 2011 as Ogier was promoted to the Citroën World Rally Team. A change in WRC regulations allowed customers of Citroën Racing Technologies to each enter in their own teams with just one car. Petter Solberg, Peter van Merksteijn Jr. and Kimi Räikkönen entered this way in 2011, still using cars from CRT and operated on event by PH Sport.
2012
[edit]The Junior Team name was revived as Thierry Neuville entered the WRC in a one-car team after a successful two-year campaign in IRC with Peugeot 207 S2000 run by Peugeot BelLux. His best result was fourth at the Rally de France Alsace and he finished the season in seventh position.
2013–
[edit]The Citroën Racing Technologies name disappeared after 2012 as Citroën Racing's customer offerings focused on its new DS3 Regional Rally Car, R5, R3T and R1 cars rather than World Rally Cars. No privateer teams contested the WRC manufacturers' championship again in Citroën World Rally Cars, perhaps arguably with the exception of the Abu Dhabi Total World Rally Team in 2016, which was the existing Citroën World Rally Team without an official manufacturer entry, entered again through PH Sport.
WRC Results
[edit]Gallery
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Dani Sordo during his first rally for Citroën Junior Team at 2010 Rally Finland.
See also
[edit]- Citroën Racing
- Citroën World Rally Team
- Qatar World Rally Team
- ICE 1 Racing
- Petter Solberg World Rally Team
- Van Merksteijn Motorsport
- PH Sport
Notes
[edit]- ^ Citroën Racing Technologies from 2009
References
[edit]- ^ "80e RALLYE MONTE CARLO 2012" (PDF). rallye-magazin.de. 27 December 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
- ^ "WRC: Citroën introduces the Citroën Junior Team | Car News | Auto123". auto123.com. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "Citroën introduces the Citroën Junior Team" (PDF).
- ^ "Citroen Junior Team Team Profile | WRC". Crash.Net. 2008-12-24. Archived from the original on 30 November 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ^ "Solberg joins Citroen's Junior squad for Rally GB". wrc.com. WRC. 21 September 2009. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
- ^ Kimi Raikkonen signs with Citröen junior rally team AUSmotive.com, 4 December 2009
External links
[edit]- Citroën Racing homepage
- Citroën at wrc.com Archived 2018-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
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