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17th July 2011, 17:49 #1
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Importer Teams
How many official importers/distributors actually operate their own teams in the IRC or elsewhere?
The Peugeot UK and Peugeot Benelux cars are run by Kronos Racing, Peugeot Poland use Romo Motorsport Technik, some of the Peugeot France cars are looked after by PH Sport, Juka Motorsport prepares the Skoda Auto Deutschland Fabias and so on.
Are the Skoda Rallye Team Italia and Skoda UK Motorsport cars prepared by the Italian Skoda distributor or is the work done by an outside team?
What about Bruno Malgalhaes' 'Peugeot Portugal' 206, is this really looked after by staff from the Portugese Peugeot importer?
Are there any other national distributor operated teams?
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17th July 2011, 22:29 #2
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Skoda UK don't think that's under the Skoda Italia banner anymore they have their own truck etc. Is that still Skoda Italia or Skoda Motorsport or got they a own team now?
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17th July 2011, 22:46 #3
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If im not mistaken, Peugeot Sport Portugal is a completely independent team, supported by portuguese Peugeot importers and all the team (mechanics, etc....) are portuguese.
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17th July 2011, 22:47 #4
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Basically they hired the top mechanics in Portugal as far as I know, although at the time they attended their 207 construction in France to know how the car is and how to mount it.
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17th July 2011, 23:08 #5
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18th July 2011, 16:15 #6
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I didn't see Skoda Italia on the Truck maybe license place was Italian?
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18th July 2011, 18:25 #7
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AFAIK this year the car is works one but is still run by Italians.
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18th July 2011, 18:55 #8
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Originally Posted by mousti
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18th July 2011, 21:12 #9
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20th July 2011, 11:33 #10
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Originally Posted by mousti
TBH I dont get why some places have anti-cut devices when other identical kind of places allow huge cutting and the throwing of dirt all over the road.
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