Stohl confirms full-season.
Top privateer driver, Manfred Stohl will compete in all sixteen WRC events in 2006, following confirmation that he has added Spain, Corsica and Japan to his schedule.
Stohl, who finished ninth in the drivers' championship this year, after driving an OMV backed Citroen Xsara WRC for Kronos Racing, was due to do just 13 events in a Peugeot 307 WRC. However he has now expanded the programme after Bozian Racing, who will prepare the 307, confirmed its availability for the other three events.
Top privateer driver, Manfred Stohl will compete in all sixteen WRC events in 2006, following confirmation that he has added Spain, Corsica and Japan to his schedule.
Stohl, who finished ninth in the drivers' championship this year, after driving an OMV backed Citroen Xsara WRC for Kronos Racing, was due to do just 13 events in a Peugeot 307 WRC. However he has now expanded the programme after Bozian Racing, who will prepare the 307, confirmed its availability for the other three events.
"Sixteen rounds seem almost incredible to me," said Stohl. "It also offers many advantages.
"Doing sixteen rallies you spend so much time in the car that it will seem like driving to work in the 307 WRC!
"It is also a matter of rhythm. You get a very good feeling for the car. And if things don't go so well one week you get the opportunity to do better two or three weeks later."
Stohl's team-mate Henning Solberg however will still do twelve events in the sister OMV backed Peugeot, as announced earlier this month. He will sit out the WRC events in Spain, France, Germany and Japan.
The OMV Peugeot Norway World Rally Team will be entered in the M2 [Manufacturer 2] category, which means both Stohl and Solberg must do a minimum of ten events.
