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Citroën Junior Team

2009–2012 World Rally Championship manufacturer team

Citroën Junior Team
Summary

2009–2012 World Rally Championship manufacturer team

| Co-drivers = The Citroën Junior Team was a World Rally Championship team that competed in the 2009, 2010 and 2012 seasons. It was established as a second team for the Citroën brand and was presented as a vehicle to develop young talent.

The team was also the flagship WRC team for Citroën Racing's customer racing department, Citroën Racing Technologies (CRT), which was in existence between 2007 and 2012. As with all of CRT's customer privateers and team, the Citroën Junior Team was run on events by third-party preparation firm PH Sport.

History

Background

PH Sport and Citroën Sport Technologies ran semi-privateer Citroën C4 WRCs for Conrad Rautenbach and Urmo Aava during the 2008 World Rally Championship season.

2009

[[Conrad Rautenbach]] driving [[Citroën C4 WRC]] at the [[2009 Rally Finland]].
[[Kimi Räikkönen]] at the [[2010 Rally Finland]].

The Citroën Junior Team was formed in 2009 following the withdrawal of manufacturers Subaru and Suzuki. It ran Citroën C4s for Russian Evgeny Novikov, Zimbabwean Conrad Rautenbach and Junior World Rally Championship champion Sébastien Ogier. It ran former Subaru driver Chris Atkinson rather than Novikov on the season-opening Rally Ireland, although despite a good performance, the Australian did not feature in the team again. Petter Solberg was nominated to score manufacturer points for the team at Rally GB. Solberg finished fourth there, with another driver of Citroën Junior Team Aaron Burkart finishing 12th in his first WRC rally with WRC car.

2010

On 4 December 2009, it was announced that Formula One World Champion Kimi Räikkönen would drive for the Junior Team for his switch to rallying. Räikkönen's co-driver would be Kaj Lindström who had partnered multiple world champion Tommi Mäkinen in the past, while Sébastien Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia were in a second car for the Junior Team.

Räikkönen and Lindström contested 12 out of the 13 rounds in the 2010 WRC season, missing only the Rally of New Zealand. They did not start at 2010 Rally Catalunya because of a crash at the pre-event shakedown.

Sébastien Ogier claimed Citroën Junior Team's best result, winning at 2010 Rally de Portugal. Because of his strong finishes he was promoted to Citroën World Rally Team for gravel rallies (Finland, Japan, Wales) while Dani Sordo switched to Citroën Junior Team for those rallies. The best result for Kimi Räikkönen was 5th place at 2010 Rally of Turkey.

2011

The 'Junior Team' banner was dropped for 2011 as Ogier was promoted to the Citroën World Rally Team. A change in WRC regulations allowed customers of Citroën Racing Technologies to each enter in their own teams with just one car. Petter Solberg, Peter van Merksteijn Jr. and Kimi Räikkönen entered this way in 2011, still using cars from CRT and operated on event by PH Sport.

2012

The Junior Team name was revived as Thierry Neuville entered the WRC in a one-car team after a successful two-year campaign in IRC with Peugeot 207 S2000 run by Peugeot BelLux. His best result was fourth at the Rally de France Alsace and he finished the season in seventh position.

2013–

The Citroën Racing Technologies name disappeared after 2012 as Citroën Racing's customer offerings focused on its new DS3 Regional Rally Car, R5, R3T and R1 cars rather than World Rally Cars. No privateer teams contested the WRC manufacturers' championship again in Citroën World Rally Cars, perhaps arguably with the exception of the Abu Dhabi Total World Rally Team in 2016, which was the existing Citroën World Rally Team without an official manufacturer entry, entered again through PH Sport.

WRC Results

YearEntrantCarNoDriver123456789101112131415WDCPointsTCPointsnowrapWorld Rally Team EstonianowrapCitroën C4 WRC15nowrapEST Urmo Aava11th13––Conrad RautenbachnowrapCitroën Xsara WRC21ZWE Conrad Rautenbach15th6Citroën C4 WRC16nowrapEquipe de France FFSA17nowrapFRA Sébastien Ogier19th1Citroën Junior TeamCitroën C4 WRC7nowrapAUS Chris Atkinson14th44th47nowrapRUS Evgeny Novikov13th48nowrapZWE Conrad Rautenbach10th911nowrapNOR Petter Solberg5th3512nowrapFRA Sébastien Ogier8th2416nowrapDEU Aaron Burkart–0Citroën Junior TeamCitroën C4 WRC7nowrapFRA Sébastien Ogier4th1673rd217nowrapESP Dani Sordo5th1508nowrapFIN Kimi Räikkönen10th25nowrapCitroën Junior TeamnowrapCitroën DS3 WRC23BEL Thierry Neuville7th535th72
2008MONSWE
18MEXARGJOR
RetITA
8GRE
4TUR
RetFIN
15GER
8NZL
5ESP
RetFRA
7JPNGBR
MON
RetSWE
16
MEX
15ARG
4JOR
26ITA
13GRE
10TUR
8FIN
10GER
13NZL
RetESP
RetFRA
14JPN
RetGBR
15
MONSWEMEXARGJORITAGRETURFINGERNZLESPFRAJPNGBR
26
2009IRE
5NORCYPPORARGITAGREPOLFINAUSESPGBR
IRENOR
11CYP
RetPOR
RetARGITA
5GRC
16POL
9FIN
RetAUSESP
RetGBR
IRE
18NOR
RetCYP
6POR
RetARG
RetITA
9GRE
5POL
8FIN
RetAUS
RetESP
11GBR
8
IRENORCYPPORARGITAGREPOLFINAUSESPGBR
4
IRE
6NOR
10CYP
RetPOR
17ARG
7ITA
RetGRE
2POL
RetFIN
6AUS
5ESP
5GBR
Ret
IRENORCYPPORARGITAGREPOLFINAUSESPGBR
12
2010SWE
5MEX
3JOR
6TUR
4NZL
2POR
1BUL
4GER
3FRA
6ESP
10
FIN
5JPN
4GBR
5
SWE
29MEX
RetJOR
8TUR
5NZLPOR
10BUL
11FIN
25GER
7JPN
RetFRA
RetESP
DNSGBR
8
2012MON
RetSWE
12MEX
13POR
8ARG
5GRE
6NZLFIN
16GER
12GBR
7FRA
4ITAESP
12

Notes

References

References

  1. (27 December 2011). "80e RALLYE MONTE CARLO 2012". rallye-magazin.de.
  2. "WRC: Citroën introduces the Citroën Junior Team {{!}} Car News {{!}} Auto123".
  3. "Citroën introduces the Citroën Junior Team".
  4. (2008-12-24). "Citroen Junior Team Team Profile | WRC". Crash.Net.
  5. (21 September 2009). "Solberg joins Citroen's Junior squad for Rally GB". [[World Rally Championship.
  6. [http://www.ausmotive.com/2009/12/04/kimi-raikkonen-signs-with-citroen-junior-rally-team.html Kimi Raikkonen signs with Citröen junior rally team] AUSmotive.com, 4 December 2009
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