So simple but so beautiful colors!
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So simple but so beautiful colors!
It seems Danish rallying isn't at its best...
Jensen may not be the faster, but at least his team managed to prepare him a reliable 208! The team is an importer inhouse department or an external supplier paid by Pug Denmark?
Btw, Peugeot official presence in danish rally must be one of the most enduring all over Europe! I suppose they're doing it since the 80's. When did they start exactly? Any interruption?
New car for Botka
http://www.duen.hu/hirek/uj_autoja_v...ropa-bajnoknak
Chassis 10 from Grøndal
Danish rallying is very far from the heyday of the 80's and 90's, but has taken a further step backwards this year. Long explanation!
The team is a bit of a combination. Last I heard (been a while, but the cars have not changed since, so I presume still accurate) it was a single full-time employee who took care of the cars. Rallying in Denmark is very much a grass-roots, do-it-yourself business without any specialist companies.
The guy in charge is former driver and mechanic Kjeld Seidler, who now works as technical director for Peugeot Denmark, with influence from both Christian Jensen and Brian Madsen. The intricacies I don't really know, but it seems to be Jensen in charge of the day-to-day maintenance of his car, Brian or Kim Madsen in charge of the same for the R2 and then they have their own mechanics for their own car at events.
From memory (I was born in 1990, so not completely certain), but the only official Peugeot absence from Danish rallying seems to be at the end of the 306 and 106 Maxi-era until Christian Jensen and Karl-Åge Jensen (no relation) got the importer on board for the 207 S2000-project, which then developped into the current R5.
The beginning of the presence I'm not completely sure of, but the legendary Jens Ole Kristiansen had official support in the mid-80s when he drove a home-built "205 T16". He helped start up the current project before retiring to Spain by the way.