Formula One Features — January 1994

Peugeot will enter Formula 1 with McLaren in 1994, having long resisted the challenge. For years Peugeot Talbot Sport, under its own little Napoleon - Jean Todt - had collected Trophies and titles in World Championship rallying, on rally raids like the daunting Paris-Dakar, at Pikes Peak hillclimbs in the United States and more recently in the World Sportscar Championship and at the Le Mans 24 Hours. In June last year Peugeot achieved an historic 1-2-3 at Le Mans. Todt had wanted to go to F1 with a complete Peugeot team, building chassis and engines. It was a dream and when the board of Automobiles Peugeot told Jean that they could not pay for his plan, he took up an offer to join Ferrari. Peugeot named former Grand Prix driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille as Todt's replacement.

The Formula 1 silly season is now virtually over as the driver market has moved along quite quickly in the last few weeks.