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OPEL WANTS TO DISPUTE THE 'WRC' 2020
Speaking to MotorSport News, Carlos Tavares, CEO of PSA Group, revealed that Opel could return to the World Rally Championship in 2020 after the brand resolved all the financial problems it currently faces.As it is known, the PSA Group, owner of Peugeot and Citroën, bought Opel last November, with the German brand now in a recovery process that should be completed by 2020. After that, according to Carlos Tavares: "Opel, like any brand of the PSA Group, will have its program in motorsport as soon as we get back to the company "read on, start giving profits.Remember that the brand now has only the Opel program Adam R2, successful by the way, but Carlos Tavares is very clear: "Once Opel turns around, and our focus is 2020, we can talk about it, provided that the survival of the mark is not in question ". It is recalled that the German mark was in the WRC between 1982 and 1990.In 1982, everyone remembers Walter Rohrl's triumph in Monte Carlo with the Opel Ascona 400, triumphed once again that year in Ivory Coast, the following year in Safari through Ari Vatanen, this being the car better of the brand. Then came Groups B, and 'the party is over'. In 1988, with Groups A, Sepp Haider won the New Zealand Rally, and a little later, the brand won the Ladies Cup in 1990 through Louise Aitken-Walker and Tina Thorner in a triumph whose scary dive in the Zêzere River in 1990, at the Rally de Portugal, which happily went well.Last year, the Holzer team presented an Opel Adam R5 in the hope that Opel would get on the project, but the purchase by the PSA Group was in progress and logically this matter 'died'. The photos of the car were left, as you can see ...

José Luis Abreu, Portugal