Škoda Motorsport

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Škoda Motorsport is the sports department of Škoda, responsible for activities in motor sports. The brand has participated in different rally competitions such as the Rally World Championship, the Rally European Championship or the Rally Challenge Intercontinental. He debuted at the World Championship in 1999 and participated until 2005 in a total of 98 tests achieving a third best result. He then participated in the IRC from 2009 to 2012, winning the title of pilots with Juho Hänninen in 2010, with Andreas Mikkelsen in 2011 and 2012 and the title of brands in 2010, 2011 and 2012, as well as adding 27 wins and 70 podios. Since 2012 he also competed in the ERC where he won the title of pilots in 2012 and 2013 with Juho Hänninen and Jan Kopecký respectively and with Esapekka Lappi in 2014. Outside Europe, he was also present at the Asian-Pacific Rally Championship where he won the titles of pilots and builders in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and at the Codasur where he won four wins in 2013.

The brand had since its entry as an official WRC team in 1999, with three different cars: Škoda Octavia WRC, Škoda Fabia WRC and the Škoda Fabia S2000. The first two were present in the world without any victory or title, the best result was a podium, the third place in the 2001 Safari Rally. The Škoda Fabia S2000, however, debuted in competition in 2009 and since then has officially and privately participated in various international championship, achieving various wins and titles.

Among the most prominent pilots who have participated with Škoda are: Armin Schwarz (a podium at the WRC), Bruno Thiry, Toni Gardemeister, Toni Gardemeister, Stig Blomqvist, Colin McRae, Jan Kopecký (champion of the ERC in 2013 and of the APRC in 2014), Juho Hänninen (champion of the IRC in 2010, of the SWRC in 2011 and of the ERC in 2012), Andreas Mikkelsen (champion of the IRC in 2011 and 2012), Chris Lappi (Lappy in 2012), and in the Lappi.

The brand had a private team, the Red Bull Škoda Team that participated in the world in 2006 and later the PWRC championships in 2009 and the SWRC in 2010 and 2011 with different pilots, already under the name Red Bull Rallye Team. It was managed by BRR - Baumschlager Rallye & Racing and sponsored by the brand Red Bull.

History

One of the first rally vehicles of the Czech brand was the Škoda 130 that in the hands of private pilots made several appearances in World Championship tests in the 1970s and 1980s and that it came to have Group B. approval The most outstanding results were a sixth in the San Remo Rally of 1986, two octaves in the Acropolis Rally of 1979 and the Acropolis Rally of 1981 and a ninth in the Acropolis Rally of 1978. Outside the world championship, the Škoda 130RS triumphed six times and with different pilots in the Zlin Rally, between 1976 and 1983. Posterium