Citroen's Forbidden Sponsor
Starting from Rally Argentina, the entries of the French team Citroen Sport in the world rally championship will carry Red Bull signage despite the fact that Red Bull drinks have been banned from sale in France for the past four years. French medical officials claim that Red Bull contains excessive quantities of caffeine and other stimulants and that there have been unresolved deaths of sporting people after consuming the energy drink.Red Bull entered rallying when they organised a Find-a-Driver competition in 2004 in German speaking countries for which some 300 applicants were assessed, and finally the Austrian Andreas Aigner was chosen. They arrived in world level rallying when the Austrian preparation company BRR took over the running of the Skoda World Rally Car team in 2006, with Aigner as one of the drivers. When that programme ended, the team contested the PCWRC series with a Mitsubishi driven by Aigner in 2007 and continues this year with a two car team for Aigner and Fernando Sousa. Meanwhile Olivier Quesnel, Director of Citroen Sport, is reported to have confirmed that the C3 model is to be the base for the company's future Super 2000 project. It is to be developed out of the company's new model C3 which will be announced later in the year.

News from Argentina
One month before the event, the organisers of Rally Argentina, round 4 of the FIA World Championship, have been forced to change the location of the event's superspecial stage because it will be impossible to prepare the land to full safety standards. The stage will now be run at an auxiliary football field and surrounding grounds of Cordoba stadium itself. In 2007 superspecials were run inside both the stadiums at Buenos Aires and Cordoba, but it was planned in 2008 to have a different system, in which the land close to the Cordoba Stadium called "Camping San Martin" would be used instead. For many years this land has been run as a stage venue, including in 1998 a first-ever experiment in which three cars, not two would run side by side. As originally planned for the other venue, the superspecial will be run three times. On the Friday and Saturday evenings it will be a stage in which cars run one at a time, on the Sunday with two cars starting simultaneously.

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