Kronos Racing Explained

Kronos Racing is a Belgian auto racing and rally team.

History

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

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

Year	Car	Entrant	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	WDC	Points
2007		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 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: iwcweb . préparateur de référence en circuit et rallye . Kronos Racing . 2011-11-27.
2. Web site: Kronos - Season 2006 . Juwra.com . 2011-11-16 . 2011-11-27.