The
Team Peugeot-Hansen was a serious contender for the FIA
World Rallycross Championship drivers title in and won the teams
title in 2015, supported by a hard-working crew and some good
entities, like ORECA. But it's not like they couldn't step up
their game, which they actually did by bringing Sébastien Loeb
to the team. Yes, that Sébastien Loeb.
The
nine time World Rally champion, who left the discipline to try
himself in different categories along the years, but it's not like he
will be in a rallycross supercar for the first time. He tried his
hand at the X Games Los Angeles in 2012, curiously with a Hansen
Motorsport Citroën DS3 RX, wiping out the competition without
mercy. After that, he participated of the European Rallycross
Championship at Lohéac, finishing ninth, and since then, he was
only target of speculation for a return, specially after his move
from Citroën's WTCC team to Peugeot's Rally Dakar team.
But
Team Peugeot-Hansen isn't leaving everything in the hands of Loeb, as
Timmy Hansen, who put quite a challenge to the world champion
Petter Solberg, will appear in the other full time Peugeot 208
WRX. Some bad luck struck into Timmy's door last year, which is
expected to not happen this year.
Along
with Loeb and Hansen, the other Frenchman of the team, Davy
Jeanney, will race in ten of the twelve events of the season and
will act as a mentor of the fourth guy of the team, the RX Lites
champion Kevin Hansen as he steps up definitely to supercars
after an impressive display at Argentina last year. Both Jeanney and
Kevin will be part of a new venture formed by Peugeot Sport and
Hansen Motorsport called Peugeot Hansen Academy, which will be
like a junior team of the Swedish squad, more in the way of Hansen
Talent Development, which showed to Janis Baumanis the way to the
World RX supercars in 2015.
We
still have 46 days until the 2016 season starts at Montealegre,
Portugal, on April 15th, but it's not like the Team
Peugeot-Hansen crew are just celebrating about their newly added team
member, as they made a videoclip with Timmy Hansen and Loeb
giving their machines the proper treatment on a snowy track.
PHOTO: Team Peugeot-Hansen
Rallycross On Ice
Stars on Ice.
Posted by Red Bull on Monday, February 29, 2016
PHOTO: Team Peugeot-Hansen
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