Since 1999, Citroën have won 85 Rallies in the WRC and counting. And the first person who won for Citroën was French rally driver and tarmac specialist called Philippe Bugalski (Bug to his fans) in his Citroën Xsara F2 kit car on the Rally Catalunya and then on the Tour de Corse in Corsica a rally later, beating the likes of Didier Auriol, Tommi Mäkinen and Colin McRae on those two weekends. Recently been an official Citroën WRC test driver up until including the development of the Xsara WRC back in 2001 and C4 WRC back in 2007.
But sadly, Philippe Bugalski died on last Friday (August 10th), aged 49, from injuries sustained when he fell out of a tree at his home in Vichy near Paris. Condolences goes out to Philippe Bugalski's family and close friends.
A YouTube video below of Bug (as fans called him) winning his first WRC win on the Rally Catalunya back in 1999 below.
R.I.P. Philippe Bugalski (June 12, 1963 – August 10, 2012)
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