Kronos Racing is a Belgian auto racing and rally team.

Kronos Racing
Full nameKronos Racing
BaseBelgium Naninne, Belgium
Technical directorMarc Van Dalen (CEO)
World Rally Championship history
Debut2004
Manufacturers' Championships0
Drivers' Championships1 (2006)
Rally wins8
Sébastien Loeb driving for Kronos Racing at the 2006 Rally Japan.
Kris Meeke during the 2010 Ypres Rally.

History edit

Kronos Racing was set up in 1994, and ran circuit racing and rallying programmes on behalf of Peugeot Belgium/Luxembourg. The team's Peugeot 306 GTIs won the Spa 24 Hours in 1999 and 2000, the last two years that the event was run as a touring car race. In 2003 Bruno Thiry won the European Rally Championship in a Peugeot 206 WRC run by the team.[1] In 2004, Citroën Sport chose Kronos to run their programme in the Junior World Rally Championship, extending their partnership with the PSA Group. Dani Sordo won the JWRC in 2005 while driving for the team, while Manfred Stohl scored overall two podium finishes driving a Kronos-run Citroën Xsara WRC.

In 2006 Citroën took a year out of the WRC to develop the C4 WRC, and therefore used Kronos to enter Xsara WRCs under the Kronos Total Citroën World Rally Team banner. Sébastien Loeb took his third Drivers' title for Citroën thanks to Kronos, beating the Ford World Rally Team and driver Marcus Grönholm. Kronos also ran Xavier Pons and Sordo, while Colin McRae drove on one event as a stand-in for the injured Loeb.[2]

In 2007 Kronos continued to run Xsaras in the WRC, mainly for Stohl. In addition, Kronos began competing in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge with Peugeot, winning the title in 2008 with Nicolas Vouilloz. In 2009, Kris Meeke won the title for Peugeot UK, his car run by Kronos.

WRC Results edit

Year Car No Driver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 WDC Points TC Points
2004 Citroën Xsara WRC 15   Juuso Pykälistö MON SWE MEX NZL CYP GRE TUR ARG FIN
Ret
GER JPN GBR ITA
Ret
FRA ESP AUS - 0 - -
2005 Citroën Xsara WRC 16   Manfred Stohl MON
6
SWE MEX NZL
9
ITA
9
CYP
2
TUR GRE
20
ARG
8
FIN
Ret
GER
Ret
GBR
5
JPN FRA ESP AUS
3
9th 22 - -
17   Xavier Pons MON SWE MEX NZL ITA CYP TUR GRE
10
ARG
10
FIN
12
GER
9
GBR
11
JPN FRA
7
ESP
4
AUS
Ret
15th 7
21   Juuso Pykälistö MON SWE MEX NZL ITA
8
CYP TUR GRE ARG FIN GER GBR JPN FRA ESP AUS 27th 1
2006 Citroën Xsara WRC 1   Sébastien Loeb MON
2
SWE
2
MEX
1
ESP
1
FRA
1
ARG
1
ITA
1
GRE
2
DEU
1
FIN
2
JPN
1
CYP
1
1st 112 2nd 166
  Colin McRae TUR
Ret
- 0
  Xavier Pons AUS
4
NZL
4
GBR
5
7th 32
2 MON
9
SWE
7
MEX
Ret
ESP
Ret
FRA
6
ARG
17
ITA
4
GRE
8
  Dani Sordo DEU
2
FIN
Ret
JPN
DSQ
CYP
Ret
TUR
7
AUS
23
NZL
5
GBR
7
5th 49
14 MON
8
SWE
16
MEX
4
ESP
2
FRA
3
ARG
5
ITA
3
GRE
6
  Xavier Pons DEU
14
FIN
Ret
JPN
DNS
CYP
7
TUR
4
7th 32
2007 Citroën Xsara WRC 5   Manfred Stohl MON
10
SWE
7
NOR
12
MEX
6
POR
9
ARG
8
ITA
7
GRE
8
FIN
Ret
GER
Ret
NZL
12
ESP
Ret
FRA
14
JPN
6
IRE
Ret
GBR
8
9th 13 5th 45
6   Daniel Carlsson MON SWE
5
NOR
7
MEX POR
6
ARG ITA
Ret
GRE FIN 14th 9
  François Duval GER
2
NZL ESP
5
FRA
Ret
JPN IRE GBR 10th 12

IRC results edit

Year Car Entrant Driver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 WDC Points
2007 Peugeot 207 S2000   Peugeot Sport España   Enrique García Ojeda KEN TUR
3
BEL
2
RUS
2
POR
4
CZE
2
ITA
6
SWI
2
CHI 1st 47
  Nicolas Vouilloz KEN TUR
1
BEL
Ret
RUS
3
POR
9
CZE
1
ITA
3
SWI
1
CHI 2nd 42
  Peugeot Team Belux   Bernd Casier KEN TUR BEL
4
RUS POR
5
CZE
5
ITA
14
SWI
Ret
CHI 8th 13
2008 Peugeot 207 S2000   Peugeot Team Bel-Lux   Nicolas Vouilloz TUR
2
POR
3
BEL
2
RUS
5
POR
1
CZE
2
ESP
2
ITA
2
SWI
2
CHI 1st 68
  Freddy Loix IST
8
POR
Ret
YPR
1
RUS
4
MAD
6
ZLI
1
AST
3
SAN
5
VAL
1
CHN 2nd 48
  BF Goodrich Drivers Team   Miguel Campos IST POR
Ret
- 0
  Patrick Snijers YPR
5
RUS MAD 18th 4
  Pavel Valoušek ZLI
4
15th 5
  Sergio Vallejo AST
7
28th 2
  Andrea Torlasco SAN
9
VAL CHN - 0
2009 Peugeot 207 S2000   Peugeot UK   Kris Meeke MON
Ret
CUR
1
KEN AZO
1
BEL
1
RUS POR
5
CZE
2
ESP
2
ITA
1
SCO
DSQ
1st 66
  Peugeot Team Belux   Freddy Loix MON
2
CUR
4
KEN AZO
4
YPR
3
RUS MAD
6
ZLI
Ret
AST
6
ITA
4
SCO 3rd 37
  Nicolas Vouilloz MON
Ret
CUR
2
KEN AZO
3
BEL
Ret
RUS POR
4
CZE
Ret
ESP
3
ITA
3
SCO 4th 31
  Pieter Tsjoen MON CUR KEN AZO YPR
4
RUS MAD ZLI AST ITA SCO 19th 5
  BF Goodrich Drivers Team   Sébastien Ogier MON
1
CUR KEN AZO 8th 10
  Thierry Neuville BEL
Ret
RUS POR - 0
  Martin Prokop CZE
5
ESP 24th 4
  Luca Cantamessa ITA
7
37th 2
  Adam Gould SCO
Ret
- 0
2010 Peugeot 207 S2000   Peugeot UK   Kris Meeke MON
Ret
BRA
1
ARG
Ret
CAN
4
ITA
Ret
BEL
Ret
AZO
2
MAD
Ret
CZE
4
ITA
4
SCO
3
CYP 3rd 39
  Peugeot Team Bel-Lux   Thierry Neuville MON BRA ARG CAN
Ret
ITA
4
BEL
3
AZO MAD CZE
Ret
ITA
8
SCO
Ret
CYP 9th 12
2011 Peugeot 207 S2000   Peugeot Team Bel-Lux   Thierry Neuville MON
Ret
CAN
3
COR
1
YAL
6
YPR
Ret
AZO ZLI
4
MEC
2
SAN
1
SCO
6
CYP
Ret
5th 115
  Peugeot UK   Guy Wilks MON
3
CAN
5
COR
Ret
YAL
5
YPR
4
AZO
Ret
ZLI
Ret
MEC
Ret
SAN
Ret
SCO
Ret
CYP 7th 47

References edit

  1. ^ iwcweb. "préparateur de référence en circuit et rallye". Kronos Racing. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  2. ^ "Kronos - Season 2006". Juwra.com. 2011-11-16. Retrieved 2011-11-27.

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