Petter Solberg World Rally Team
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The Petter Solberg World Rally Team was a team that competed in the
2011, owned by Norwegian driver Petter Solberg
.
2009
The team was founded in early 2009 after Solberg, the 2003 World Rally Champion, was left without a drive following the withdrawal of former employer
2009 season, so joined forces with Ken Rees, formerly team co-ordinator at Subaru, to establish his own rally team.[1] He acquired an eight-year-old Citroën Xsara and began competing from the second round of the season, Rally Norway, and went on to achieving podiums in Cyprus and Italy. He began using a Citroën C4 WRC
for the final two rounds of 2009.
2010
Solberg continued to use the C4 WRC during the
2010 season. The team entered a second car on the 2010 Rallye de France for touring car driver Yvan Muller, in a Xsara WRC. 2010 proved to be a very successful season. Solberg finished twelve of the thirteen rounds and amassed eight podiums. This resulted in third place in the final standings, beating factory Citroën drivers Sébastien Ogier and Dani Sordo as well as works Ford driver Mikko Hirvonen
.
2011
For the
MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso in the final. The team closed down after Solberg announced he was to drive for the Ford World Rally Team
in 2012.
WRC results
| Year | Car | No | Driver | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | WDC | Points | TC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2009
|
Citroën Xsara WRC | 11 |  Petter Solberg
|
IRL | NOR 6 |
CYP 3 |
POR 4 |
ARG Ret |
ITA 3 |
GRC Ret |
POL 4 |
FIN Ret |
AUS | 5th | 35 | - | - | |||
| Citroën C4 WRC | ESP 4 |
GBR 4 |
||||||||||||||||||
2010
|
Citroën C4 WRC | 11 | Petter Solberg
|
SWE 9 |
MEX 2 |
JOR 3 |
TUR 2 |
NZL Ret |
POR 5 |
BUL 3 |
FIN 4 |
GER 5 |
JPN 2 |
FRA 3 |
ESP 2 |
GBR 2 |
3rd | 169 | - | - |
| Citroën Xsara WRC | 68 |  Yvan Muller
|
SWE | MEX | JOR | TUR | NZL | POR | BUL | FIN | GER | JPN | FRA 42 |
ESP | GBR
|
- | 0 | |||
2011
|
Citroën DS3 WRC | 11 | Petter Solberg
|
SWE 5 |
MEX 4 |
POR 6 |
JOR Ret |
ITA 3 |
ARG 4 |
GRE 4 |
FIN 5 |
GER 5 |
AUS 3 |
FRA EX |
ESP Ret |
GBR Ret |
5th | 110 | 4th | 98 |
References
- ^ "World Rally Championship – Drivers & Teams – Teams – Petter Solberg World Rally Team". Wrc.com. Archived from the original on 2011-11-17. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
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