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| Full name | Kronos Racing |
|---|---|
| Base |  Naninne, Belgium |
| Technical director | Marc Van Dalen (CEO) |
| World Rally Championship history | |
| Debut | 2004 |
| Manufacturers' Championships | 0 |
| Drivers' Championships | 1 (2006) |
| Rally wins | 8 |
Kronos Racing is aBelgianauto racing andrally team.
Kronos Racing was set up in 1994, and ran circuit racing and rallying programmes on behalf ofPeugeot Belgium/Luxembourg. The team'sPeugeot 306 GTIs won theSpa 24 Hours in 1999 and 2000, the last two years that the event was run as atouring car race. In 2003Bruno Thiry won theEuropean Rally Championship in aPeugeot 206 WRC run by the team.[1] In 2004,Citroën Sport chose Kronos to run their programme in theJunior World Rally Championship, extending their partnership with thePSA Group.Dani Sordo won the JWRC in 2005 while driving for the team, whileManfred Stohl scored overall two podium finishes driving a Kronos-runCitroën 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 theKronos Total Citroën World Rally Team banner.Sébastien Loeb took his third Drivers' title for Citroën thanks to Kronos, beating theFord World Rally Team and driverMarcus Grönholm. Kronos also ranXavier Pons and Sordo, whileColin McRae drove on one event as a stand-in for the injured Loeb.[2]
In 2007 Kronos continued to run Xsaras in the WRC, mainly for Stohl. In addition, Kronos began competing in theIntercontinental Rally Challenge with Peugeot, winning the title in 2008 withNicolas Vouilloz. In 2009,Kris Meeke won the title forPeugeot UK, his car run by Kronos.
| Year | Car | No | Driver | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | WDC | Points | TC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Citroën Xsara WRC | 15 |  Juuso Pykälistö | MON | SWE | MEX | NZL | CYP | GRE | TUR | ARG | FIN Ret | GER | JPN | GBR | ITA Ret | FRA | ESP | AUS | - | 0 | - | - |
| 2005 | Citroën Xsara WRC | 16 |  Manfred Stohl | MON 6 | SWE | MEX | NZL 9 | ITA 9 | CYP 2 | TUR | GRE 20 | ARG 8 | FIN Ret | GER Ret | GBR 5 | JPN | FRA | ESP | AUS 3 | 9th | 22 | - | - |
| 17 |  Xavier Pons | MON | SWE | MEX | NZL | ITA | CYP | TUR | GRE 10 | ARG 10 | FIN 12 | GER 9 | GBR 11 | JPN | FRA 7 | ESP 4 | AUS Ret | 15th | 7 | ||||
| 21 | Juuso Pykälistö | MON | SWE | MEX | NZL | ITA 8 | CYP | TUR | GRE | ARG | FIN | GER | GBR | JPN | FRA | ESP | AUS | 27th | 1 | ||||
| 2006 | Citroën Xsara WRC | 1 |  Sébastien Loeb | MON 2 | SWE 2 | MEX 1 | ESP 1 | FRA 1 | ARG 1 | ITA 1 | GRE 2 | DEU 1 | FIN 2 | JPN 1 | CYP 1 | 1st | 112 | 2nd | 166 | ||||
 Colin McRae | TUR Ret | - | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Xavier Pons | AUS 4 | NZL 4 | GBR 5 | 7th | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | MON 9 | SWE 7 | MEX Ret | ESP Ret | FRA 6 | ARG 17 | ITA 4 | GRE 8 | |||||||||||||||
| Dani Sordo | DEU 2 | FIN Ret | JPN DSQ | CYP Ret | TUR 7 | AUS 23 | NZL 5 | GBR 7 | 5th | 49 | |||||||||||||
| 14 | MON 8 | SWE 16 | MEX 4 | ESP 2 | FRA 3 | ARG 5 | ITA 3 | GRE 6 | |||||||||||||||
| Xavier Pons | DEU 14 | FIN Ret | JPN DNS | CYP 7 | TUR 4 | 7th | 32 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Citroën Xsara WRC | 5 | Manfred Stohl | MON 10 | SWE 7 | NOR 12 | MEX 6 | POR 9 | ARG 8 | ITA 7 | GRE 8 | FIN Ret | GER Ret | NZL 12 | ESP Ret | FRA 14 | JPN 6 | IRE Ret | GBR 8 | 9th | 13 | 5th | 45 |
| 6 |  Daniel Carlsson | MON | SWE 5 | NOR 7 | MEX | POR 6 | ARG | ITA Ret | GRE | FIN | 14th | 9 | |||||||||||
| François Duval | GER 2 | NZL | ESP 5 | FRA Ret | JPN | IRE | GBR | 10th | 12 |
