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
Background
PH Sport and Citroën Sport Technologies ran semi-privateer Citroën C4 WRCs for Conrad Rautenbach and Urmo Aava during the 2008 World Rally Championship season.[4]
2009
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]
Gallery
See also
- Citroën Racing
- Citroën World Rally Team
- Qatar World Rally Team
- ICE 1 Racing
- Petter Solberg World Rally Team
- Van Merksteijn Motorsport
- PH Sport
External links
References
- 80e RALLYE MONTE CARLO 2012 rallye-magazin.de, 27 December 2011, retrieved 29 December 2011^
- WRC: Citroën introduces the Citroën Junior Team auto123.com, retrieved 2023-02-22^
- Citroën introduces the Citroën Junior Team