Peugeot Denmark leaves DTC

On Monday afternoon Peugeot Danmark A/S announced that it would change its set-up in relation to the Danish Touringcar Championship. After five years with its own team – formerly known as Peugeot Statoil Motorsport and more recently as Peugeot Sport Danmark – the importer is now withdrawing its direct involvement, where the engineering shop (which builds the 307 and 407 racing cars) in Slangerup will continue, but with different ownership and a changed set-up.

”The decision to stop our own team in the DTC is sad but well-considered,” Peugeot Danmark’s head of communication, Janne Bock, says. “We have been strongly involved in the DTC for many years and we have a great record to look back at: With a lot of star drivers, many cars, many wins and many medals. But the DTC has entered into a new phase and has changed its character. That has made us take the decision to have a time out now.”

“The tendency in the DTC is that the importer teams have disappeared and the competition has moved up a gear, concentrated around a few teams with big budgets. We are not sad about that, but it is a new structure with puts new demands, if you want to participate to win – and that we have been doing from day one. Thus we have never had a half hearted DTC involvement, but to continue would have demanded substantial extra investments, and thus we have chosen to make a different priority.”

Until now Peugeot Danmark A/S has been one of the owners of the race shop that officially is called K.W. Bruun Scandic Motorsport A/S, but more commonly is known as Peugeot Sport Engineering. The importer’s shares have now be sold to Jørgen Agergaard, who will continue to run the shop but now under the name of Scandi Motorsport A/S.

”We have had a fantastic cooperation with Jørgen and his team. And he will continue to have the same close and direct contact with Peugeot France’s central, professional sports department,” Hanne Bock says.