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. 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. 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 IRC results ==References==