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First details on VW’s plans for the World Rally Championship (WRC)

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Volkswagen is really close to officially confirm the entry in WRC. More exactly, the Germans will enter this year’s edition of World Rally Championship and they will reveal all the details by the end of this month, at the Portuguese Rally which starts on March 24.

Volkswagen enters WRC
Volkswagen enters WRC

However, we can tell you few important details about the plans of the Germans for this season of WRC. Volkswagen will spend around 100 million euros this year but they also announced that only from 2013 the fun will begin as they have a limited schedule for this year.

Entering the World Rally Championship may announce a possible retire from the Dakar Rally but since now, these details were not infirmed or confirmed. From the team composition we can note Juno Hannien who recently imposed in the Intercontinetal Rally Challenge but also Francois-Xavier Demaison which will be the chief of the engineering team.

There are about two weeks left from the Portuguese Rally from where we will get all the important details on VW’s decision to enter WRC.

Andrei Ursu
the authorAndrei Ursu
Andrei is one of the oldest automotive journalists of Automotorblog and has written more than 3000 articles for our publication. He has been passionate about cars since he was a small child, and he joined our team of writers in 2009. In addition to his passion for cars, he is also passionate about music. In his free time, he composes songs and sings them, which also brought him real success in the musical field.

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