Uma kwaPeugeot bebuyela emjahweni “wase-Afrika” kuzobe kuwukubuya kohlobo oseluwunqobe kane lo mjaho. Ingabe kukhona ukunqoba kwesihlanu okuzayo?
Incwadi yesiFulentshi i-L'Equipe imemezele kuleli sonto ukuthi i-Peugeot izobuyela esekisini elikhulu lamazwe angaphandle komgwaqo ngo-2015: i-Dakar Rally. Namanje ngaphandle kokuqinisekisa okusemthethweni, umkhulumeli wakwaPeugeot Sport uthe “kungenye yezinto esizobhekana nazo, njengalapho sasihlele ukubamba iqhaza emjahweni wePikes Peak Hill Climb”, ezitatimendeni zephephandaba laseFrance.
Kodwa-ke, lezi zindaba seziqalile ukusakazwa komagazini abakhulu bezimoto emhlabeni jikelele. Abanye bathi umlingani omkhulu walokhu kubuya "ngamandla" kuzoba iRed Bull, isikhondlakhondla seziphuzo ezinikeza amandla esike saseka iPeugeot kwezinye izikhathi. Isibonelo, kumagazini wakamuva we-Pikes Peak Hill Climb.
Ngokuqondene nemodeli ekhethiwe, inketho engenzeka kakhulu ikhomba kudrayivu yamasondo angemuva «inqola» ephefumulelwe iPeugeot 208 (isithombe esigqanyisiwe). Esondweni, ubukhona bukaCarlos Sainz, osayine inkontileka yeminyaka emithathu nePeugeot, buthathwa njengento engekho. Emotweni yesibili, amagama kaSebastien Loeb noStephane Peterhansel abonisiwe. Kodwa ngenxa yokuzibandakanya kukaLoeb nephrojekthi kaCitroen e-WTCC, mancane amathuba okuthi umFulentshi akwazi ukukhuphuka “izindunduma” ezithile aye oGwadule lwase-Atacama.
Khumbula ukuthi Peugeot isivele iwine Dakar izikhathi ezine, kanye ngasekupheleni 205 Turbo 16 esithombeni (ngo-1987 futhi 1988), kanye 405 Turbo 16 (ngo-1989 futhi 1990). Ngesikhathi lapho imithethonqubo yayivumela ukuthuthukiswa kwezimoto ezazikweleta kancane izimoto zeFormula 1 ngaleso sikhathi.
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