Skoda and Red Bull team up for S-WRC
The Red Bull Skoda team is a result of joint efforts by Skoda Motor sport, Baumschlager Rally Racing (BRR) (private team) and Red Bull. Head of Skoda Motorsport Michal Hrabánek says: “We are really pleased that we can contribute to further growth of the Skoda Fabia Super 2000 project as part of Red Bull and BRR. Red Bull is one of the strongest possible partners on today’s sports scene. The BRR team led by Raimund Baumschlager, a times Austrian Rally Champion and the buyer of the 1st Skoda Fabia Super 2000 vehicle we sold, is a guarantee of a highly professional approach and top-class background."
Both of the new team’s crews, the IRC champions Juho Hänninen & Mikko Markkula of Finland and Germany’s young hope Hermann Gassner jr. & Katharina Wüstenhagen, are going to appear in the 2011 S-WRC. The S-WRC is a new category inaugurated for the 2010 season allowing Super two-thousand cars to compete against each other on the top rally stages in the world.
{Source: Globalmotors}