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17th July 2011, 17:49 #1Senior Member
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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 #2Senior Member
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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 #3Senior Member
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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 #4Senior Member
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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 #5Senior Member
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Its still Skoda Italia, you could clearly see that at Ypres f.e.
Originally Posted by mousti
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18th July 2011, 16:15 #6Senior Member
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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 #7Senior Member
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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 #8Senior Member
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Almost all the staff is Italian. So just UK labels, to get a bit less confusion Originally Posted by mousti
But there was already no Skoda Italia on the truck last season with Wilks
correct Originally Posted by Mirek
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18th July 2011, 21:12 #9Senior Member
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When I visited service park saw only one guy so I can't notice his italian Originally Posted by pucky54
Almost all the staff is Italian. So just UK labels, to get a bit less confusion But there was already no Skoda Italia on the truck last season with Wilks
correct and last year I can't know because he was then injured for Ypres. But good to know.
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On Azores they where italians. Originally Posted by mousti
When I visited service park saw only one guy so I can't notice his italian and last year I can't know because he was then injured for Ypres. But good to know.
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