Peugeot line up IRC challengers

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Peugeot Spain is to contest the 2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) with two 207 Super 2000s for Spain's Enrique Garcia Ojeda and reigning French Rally Champion Nicolas Vouilloz.

After nominating the Spaniard in November, Peugeot Spain is pleased to announce that his team-mate will be Frenchman Nicolas Vouilloz who has so far driven Peugeots practically throughout his competition career on four wheels.

Vouilloz, who will turn 31 in February, claimed no fewer than ten mountain bike downhill world titles before switching to motor sport in 2003. After dominating that year's Volant Peugeot 206, he was nominated as a member of the FFSA's French Junior Team in 2004 and, with backing from Peugeot, was able to compete in selected World Rally Championship rounds with a 206WRC.

Last season saw him secure the French national title driving a 307WRC.

Enrique Garcia Ojeda has also spent his entire career with Peugeot in Spain.
He secured the Desaf�o Peugeot � equivalent to the Volant 206 � in 2000 and, since 2003, has officially represented Peugeot in Spain driving the 206 Super 1600 with which he contested the 2006 Spanish Rally Championship.

Nicolas Vouilloz and Enrique Garcia Ojeda will form a formidable line-up in the new series which is expected to benefit from widespread television coverage.

The 207 Super 2000s will be built in V�lizy by Peugeot Sport and run by the Spanish operation run by Borja Moratal.

The Intercontinental Rally Challenge is organised by SRW Events, a subsidiary of Eurosport, and will take in a total of nine gravel and asphalt rounds in Kenya, Turkey, Belgium, Russia, Madeira, the Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland and China. Peugeot Spain will only contest eight rounds, beginning with the visit to Turkey in May.

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