Matton will be Citroën boss
Yves Matton has been appointed Citroën Racing Team Principal with effect from 5 January.
He takes over from Olivier Quesnel, who remains Peugeot Sport Director. Xavier Mestelan Pinon has been appointed as Deputy Principal, in
addition to his position as technical director.
Reporting directly to Frédéric Banzet, the Citroën General Manager, Yves Matton’s task will be to ensure that the team continues its
winning ways after an exceptional 2011 season in which the team collected ten victories and clinched its seventh manufacturers’ title,
while Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena racked up their eighth consecutive drivers’ and co-drivers’ titles.
Yves Matton, (44 years old), Bachelor of Business Administration from Antwerp University, founded Prorace, a company specialising in the
preparation and rental of racing cars, in 1990. In 1996, Prorace began its successful involvement in the Citroën Challenge. In 2002, he
joined Citroën Racing and was appointed Team Manager and head of the client competition service. In 2008, he set up MY Racing to distribute
Citroën Racing spare parts in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany.
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