AutoSkunk: last time we talked the history of Peugeot from beginning to present.

Jacque Le-Pew: today part 2 is all about may favorite part about Peugeot, their racing history.

AutoSkunk: however though unlike part 1 which was lengthiest review ever done yet, part 2 is gonna be very short this time since it's just about Peugeot's racing history because there won't be as much to cover here as there was in part 1 and basically part 2 is a history on Peugeot Sport, a department of Peugeot.

Jacque Le-Pew: because you can't talk about Peugeot racing history,or at least can't talk about they're racing history from 1981 to present without talking about Peugeot Sport.

AutoSkunk: that's right but we're gonna start from the very beginning.

Jacque Le-Pew: but didn't we already talk about the early beginnings of Peugeot's racing years back in part 1?

AutoSkunk: this is part 2 of the history of Peugeot, Peugeot's racing heritage. X3

Jacque Le-Pew: I was so eager to talk about Peugeot Sport.

AutoSkunk: we'll get there eventually now shut up. X3

Jacque Le-Pew: OnO whimper

AutoSkunk: so as we might've mentioned in part 1 Peugeot first started competing in motor racing as early as 1894 which is pretty much the first year of motor racing period (when the first automobile race was organized).
Peugeot competed in the Paris-Rouen trials in 1894 entering five cars in that race and one of them driven by Lemaitre finished second.
the Paris-Rouen trials were regarded as the first motor racing competition.
Peugeot continued to compete in a variety of racing events up until world war 1, in spite of the war however, Peugeot in 1912 made it's most notable contribution to motor racing history when one of their cars driven by Georges Boillot won the French Grand Prix at Dieppe.

Jacque Le-Pew: this car (quite revolutionary at the time) was powered by an inline 4 cylinder engine designed by Ernest Henry under the guidance of racing drivers Paul Zuccarelli and Georges Boillot.
the design was quite influential for racing engines as it featured for thefirst dual overhead cams (DOHC) and four valves per cylinder providing high engine speeds, it was a radical departure from previous racing engines that relied on large engine displacements for power.

AutoSkunk: in 1913, Peugeots of similar design to the 1912 grand prix car won the French grand prix at Amiens and the Indianapolis 500.
when one of the Peugeots remained in the United States during world war 1 and parts could not be acquired from France for the 1914 season, owner Bob Burman had it serviced in the shop of Harry Miller by a young mechanic named Fred Offenhauser.
their familiarity with the Peugeot engine was the basis of the famed Miller racing engine, which eventually was later developed in the Offenhauser engine.
okay buddy we can talk about Peugeot Sport now. :3

Jacque Le-Pew: wait, really?

AutoSkunk: you've been eagerly wanting to talk about it well now we can, so go ahead and start us off, knock yourself out X3

Jacque Le-Pew: yaay! OwO
Peugeot SPort was founded in 1981 under the name Peugeot Talbot Sport after Jean Todt, a World Rally Championship co-driver for Talbot driver Guy Frequelin, was asked by Peugeot to create a sporting department for the PSA Citroen Group.
the rally team, established at Bois De Boulogne near Paris, debuted it's Group B Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 in 1984, and took it's first victory in Finland in the hands of Ari Vantanen.

AutoSkunk: in 1985, Peugeot drivers Vatanen and Timo Salonen won seven out of twelve rallies to give Peugeot the manufacturers title and Salonen the driver's title.
Vatanen had been seriousely injured in an accident in argentina in 1985, so was replaced by Juha Kankkunen for 1986, who promptly delivered the team a second consecutive title.
the FIA banned Group B cars for the 1987 season after the fatal accident of Henri Toivonen.
this lead Peugeot to switch to Rally Raid, using the 205 to win the Dakar Rally for two consecutive years in 1987 to 1988, and then used the 405 to win in 1989 and 1990.
Peugeot Talbot Sport also participated three times at the Pikes Peak Hillclimb Race in 1987, 1988, and 1989, winning the last two years as well as in 2013 with the 208 T16.

Jacque Le-Pew: while Peugeot had success on the rally circuit, they're no stranger to sports car racing either.
in endurance racing Peugeot Talbot Sport established sports car team at Velizy-Villacoublay, France and in 1988 launched the 905 project, to develop a sportscar to begin competing in the World Sportscar Championship in the 1991 season.
the 905 was introduced in 1990 and finished second in the 1991 World Sportscar Championship season.
in 1992, Peugeot Talbot Sport won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with drivers Derek Warwick, Yannick Dalmas, and Mark Blundell.
they also won the World Sportscar Championship thanks to Warwick, Dalmas, Phillipe Alliot, and Mauro Baldi.
the championship no longer resumed in 1993, but Peugeot were able to take a 1-2-3 finish at the 1993 24 hours of Le Mans with Eric Helary, Christophe Bouchut, and Geoff Brabham driving the winning car.
Peugeot Talbot Sport subsequently pulled out of sportscar racing and Jean Todt meanwhile left Peugeot for Scuderia Ferrari.

AutoSkunk: Peugeot then switched to Formula One for 1994 using a simular 3.5 liter V10 engine as found in the 905.
this was easily developed to be used by McLaren in 1994.
however, poor reliability led to the relationship coming to an end at the end of 1994 after eight podiums, zero victories, seventeen DNF's.
this led to Peugeot to supplying Jordan Grand Prix in 1995, 1996, and 1997 with five podiums as best results, before supplying the new Prost Grand Prix team for the 1998, 1999, and 2000 seasons.
after a pointless 2000 season where poor reliability matched with Prost inability to deliver a competitive chassis, plus having no wins at all since their debut (good grief Peugeot get it together) led to the French car maker pulling the plug out on their F1 racing campaign.

Jacque Le-Pew: after Formula One, Peugeot started competing in the touring car circuit, they entered the British Touring Car Championship in 1992, preparing 405's for former champion Robb Gravett.
the team was run in house from the company's UK factory in Coventry.
the 405 never won a race despite promising results in it's four seasons of competition, before being replaced in 1996 by the 406.
unfortunately Peugeot UK did not share any technical data with it's European contemperaries, and the BTCC program suffered. Peugeot handed the works deal to Motor Sport Developments for 1997 and 1998, but wins still eluded the team.
with spiralling cost in the series, Peugeot withdrew from the BTCC at the end of 1998.
with this Peugeot 406, Laurent Aïello won the 1997 Super Tourwagen Cup season.
the Peugeot 306 GTI won the prestigious Spa 24 Hours endurance race in 1999, and 2000.
Peugeot won five times the Danish Touring Car Championship, with both the 306 (winner in 1999, 2000, and 2001), and the 307 (winner in 2002, and 2003).
Peugeot has also been racing successfully in the Asian Trouring Car Series, winning the 2000, 2001, and 2002 championship titles with the 306 GTI.
in 2001, Peugeot entered three 406 Coupes into the British Touring Car Championship to compete with dominant Vauxhal Astra Coupes.
however, the 406 coupe was not competitive, despite some promise towards the end of the year, notably when Peugeot's Steve Soper led a race only to suffer engine failure in the final few laps of the race.
the 406 Coupes were retired at the end of the following year and replaced with the 307, again uncompetitively in 2003.
Peugeot however has been successful in the Stock Car Brasil series in 2007 and won the 2008, 2009, and 2011 titles.
in 2013, the Peugeot 208 GTI won a one-two-three finish at the 24 Hours Nurburgring endurance race.

AutoSkunk: failed in Europe (except for their 1-2-3 victory in Geramny) yet successful in other continents at least there's a happy ending for those guys by the end of their touring car period.
but if you want my honest opinion nothing can beat the fun, thrills, and excitement of racing on twisty winding roads through the countryside and small villages that you'll likely experience in rallying and I'm guessing Peugeot had that same thought as well when they decided to revive their World Rally Championship campaign and go rallying once again, after all the best way to get out of dumps was to head right back where you started, square one, for Peugeot Sport if you remember where they started?, rallying was square one for them.
starting in 1999, Peugeot Sport returned to WRC with a new rally car, the Peugeot 206 WRC under the direction of Corrado Provera.
the car made it's debut at the 1999 Tour De Corse with Francois Delecour
driving one car and Gilles Panizzi and Marcus Gronholm sharing the second car over the remaining events.
Gronholm finished fourth on the car's third event, Rally Finland, before Panizzi finished second in Rallye Sanremo.
in 2000, Gronholm gave the car it's first victory at Rally Sweden, and followed up with wins in New Zealand, Finland, and Australia on his way to the driver's championship.
Panizzi won in Corsica and Sanremo, giving Peugeot the manufacturer's title.
in 2001, Didier Auriol joined the team, replacing Delecour as the main driver alongside Gronholm.
Panizzi and Harri Rovanpera also drive additional cars for the team on selected events.
Rovanpera won round two in Sweden as Gronholm struggled with retirements during the first half of the year.
Auriol won in Spain, Gronholm won in Finland, Australia and Great Britian, and Panizzi won in Italy.
the team retained their manufacturer's title, even though Gronholm was the best placed driver in the driver's standings, in fourth place.
Rovanpera was fifth, Auriol was eigth, and panizzi was ninth.
for 2002, the team signed Richard Burns (who was the 2001 WRC champion) on from Subaru replacing Aurial on the team.
Gronholm won round two in Sweden before Panizzi took back to back wins in France and Spain.
Gronholm won the next eventin Cyprus before he and Burns were disqualified for a technical infringement in Argentina.
Gronholm (we're going to be hearing this name a lot) won again in Finland while Panizzi won his third event of the year in Italy.
Gronholm completed back to back victories in New Zealand and Australia to take his second driver's title.
Burns finished fifth at the end of the season ahead of Panizzi and Rovanpera in sixth and seventh.
Peugeot were able to take a third consecutive manufacturer's title, three in a row now that's what I call a good rally performance.
the driver line up remained the same for 2003, with Marlboro joining as their sponsor.
Gronholm won in Sweden yet again and took another two wins in New Zealand and Argentina.
Panizzi picked up another win in Spain.
poised to rejoin Subaru in 2004, Burns was ruled out of action ahead of the final round of the season in the UK, having suffered a blackout while driving to the event.
he was replaced for the event and the 2004 season by Belgian driver Freddy Loix.
Burns finished the season fourth in the standings at the end of the season.
Peugeot finished fourth in the manufacturer's standings.
for 2005, Peugeot signed Estonian driver Markko Martin from Ford to partner with Gronholm.
once again, it took until Gronholm won rally Finland yet again in August for the team to win (king of Finland, sounds like a fitting title in my opinion).
two rallies later in the UK, Martin's co-driver Michael Park was killed in an accident after the pair's 307 WRC went off the road and crashed.
Daniel Carlsson and Nicolas Bernardi both filled in for him during the final four events.
Gronholm took a second win of the season in Japan on his way to third in the standings.
at the end of 2005, PSA Peugeot Citroen withdrew both it's teams from WRC.
Citroen took a year out to develop a new car and returned to WRC in 2007 but Peugeot did not return to WRC.
Peugeot Sport created the Peugeot 207 S2000, a rally car built to Super 2000 regulations.
Peugeot Sport entered the cars run by Kronos Racing in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge or IRC for short.
Peugeot drivers Enrique Garcia-Ojeda, Nicolas Vouilloz, and Kriz Meeke won the IRC driver's title in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
it was replaced by the 208 T16 which competes under R5 regulations.

Jacque Le-Pew: after another long successful run in the WRC series, Peugeot once again returned to sports car racing under the guidance of Michael Barge.
Peugeot Sport returned to sportscar racing for 2007 taking on Audi (who was dominant in the sport at the time) with a new car, the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP.
the car dubted at the 2007 1000KM of Monza, the opening round of the 2007 Le Mans racing season.
the pairing of Marc Gene and Nicolas Minassian took the car to victory.
at the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans, Stephane Sarrazin took pole position for the team ahead of the Audis.
in the race, the #8 car of Sarrazin, Pedro Lamy, and Sebastion Bordais finished second behind the #1 Audi.
after Le Mans, Sarrazin and Lamy took the Le MAns series title for Peugeot.
at the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans, Peugeot and Sarrazin once again took pole position, locking out the first three places on the grid.
in the race, the Peugeot trio finished in second, third, and fifth.
in the Le Mans series, Peugeot lost out to Audi again with Manassian and Gene finishing in second place.
when 2009 rolled in, PSA Peugeot Citroen made Citroen Sport director Olivier Quesnel the director of Peugeot Sport thus making him director of both Peugeot Sport and Citroen Sport.
at the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Sarrazin set his third consecutive pole position for the team.
in the race, the team delivered it's first Le Mans victory since 1993 with the trio of David Brabham, Marc Gene, and Alexander Wurz winning ahead of the car driven Franck Montagny, Bourdais, and Sarrazin.
the third car of the team finished the race in sixth position.
the team only contested one round of the Le Mans season at Spa as preperation for Le Mans itself.
Peugeot scored a 1-2 finish at the 2010 12 hours of Sebring.
however, reliability problems for the 908 at the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans meant that Audi finished 1-2-3 at the race.
at the 2011 12 Hours of Sebring, the older 908 HDi FAP owned by Oreca Racing had a surprise win over the factory 908's and Audi R15++s.
at the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Peugeot saw itself in a position to win after two of the Audi R18's crashed, only a strong effort from Audi kept Peugeot from winning the race.
the winning Audi was only thirteen seconds ahead the second place Peugeot.
on January 18, 2012, Peugeot Sport announced it's withdrawl from sports car racing, citing lowering car sales and the economic fall as reasons.

AutoSkunk: while Peugeot was once again out of sports car racing (this time for financial reasons) that didn't stop them from competing in the Pikes Peak Hillclimb event yet again.
after Ari Vantanen and Bobby Unser in the late 80's won Pikes Peak, Peugeot Sport and Sebastion Loeb decided to rejoin forces and go for the Pikes Peak Hillclimb record.
in April 2013, a 208 T16 was tested by Sebastion Loeb at Mont Ventoux.
based on yet while not 100% entirely based on the production 208, the T16 is a lightweight 1,929 pound hillclimb racer that used the rear wing from the 908 race car and has a 3.2 liter twin turbo V6 engine developing 875 horsepower with the aim of competing at the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb.
on June 30, 2013, Loeb demolished the standing hillclimb record by over one and a half minutes with an overall time of 8:13.878.
and that as far as I know is the full story of Peugeot's racing history and the story of Peugeot Sport, it was quite a roller coaster ride but what a thrill it was.
Jacque? wanna tell the viewers what's next?

Jacque Le-Pew: with pleasure, next time will be part 3 of this review, the final part and we'll be doing a short disucssion about Peugeot's eventual return to North America 7 years from now and what models the United States might be expecting to see in showrooms.

AutoSkunk: this I think is something I highly any of you guys to check out next time when it's posted if you're a Peugeot lover and love their cars and been waiting a long time for them to come back, it could give you all a good idea on the kind of cars would could anticipate from the brand.
I don't know about you guys but I'm all too excited for this even though it's gonna be loong loong wait because seven years while very long but still is a long time to wait but I think if Peugeot does this right? will well worth the wait.

Jacque Le-Pew: until then we'll see you guys for the final part of this review on the next AutoSkunk review.

source info for this review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_Sport

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