![]() ![]() ![]() The last time the team would win the Tour de France would be with Bernard Thévenet, in 1977.In 1982 Shell became the second sponsor, and until its finish the team was Peugeot-Shell-Michelin.In the late seventies and early eighties, the team signed many Anglophone riders. The name of the team changed in 1965 to Peugeot-BP Michelin, which it stayed until 1976, when Esso took the place of the second sponsor.Maurice De Muer became directeur sportif with the team in 1975, and directed Bernard Thévenet to beat Eddy Merckx, in the 1975 Tour de France. The team won the Vuelta a España again, with Ferdinand Bracke in 1971. He would win the 1969 Vuelta a España for the team. In 1967, the Tour de France was disputed by national teams, and one of Peugeot's riders, Roger Pingeon won the race. Eddy Merckx riding for Peugeot–BP–Michelin at the 1967 Giro d'ItaliaEddy Merckx rode his first two seasons with the team, and won Milan–San Remo twice, Gent–Wevelgem, La Flèche Wallonne, a stage in the 1967 Giro d'Italia, and the world championships road race with the team, in 1966. During this time the team achieved many successes, such as Tom Simpson winning Bordeaux–Paris in 1963, Milan–San Remo in 1964, and then in 1965 becoming world champion and winning the Giro di Lombardia. He would direct big names to success, such as Charly Gaul, Pino Cerami, Ferdinand Bracke, Walter Godefroot, Tom Simpson, Jean-Pierre Danguillaume, and the early career of Eddy Merckx.In 1963 Team Peugeot adopted the black and white checkerboard design, that would be on their white jersey until the team retired from the sport in 1986. Yves Petit-Breton (son of the two time Tour de France winner Lucien Petit-Breton) would be a directeur sportif of the team in 1956.From 1948 to 1959 there was a Belgian cycling team which was also sponsored by Peugeot, called Elvé-Peugeot.In 1958, Gaston Plaud became the directeur sportif of Peugeot-BP, where he would stay until the mid seventies. During this time the team was known as the Peugeot team, or sometimes the name of a co-sponsor was added, which occasionally was Wolber, Alcyon, Dunlop, Tedeschi, Bianchi-Pirelli.From 1936 until 1955 the team was the Peugeot-Dunlop team. The objective of forming such a consortium was to keep the sport alive in the poor post-war economic situation.After three years of the La Sportive consortium, Peugeot re-established its separate cycling team, and with Belgian Firmin Lambot won the 1922 Tour de France. The team would obtain two further victories in the Tour de France with Belgian Philippe Thys before the outbreak of the First World War.Directly after the war, Peugeot cycles was one of the companies that made a consortium that pooled their resources into a collective cycling team called La Sportive. ![]() The Peugeot team finished second overall in the 1912 Giro d'Italia. Hippolyte Aucouturier rode Peugeot cycles when he won Paris–Roubaix and Bordeaux–Paris in 1903, and when he was disqualified from the 1904 Tour de France in which he had finished fourth overall, for the illegal use of trains and cars.But the Peugeot team obtained success for the following four years in the Tour de France with Louis Trousselier, René Pottier and Lucien Petit-Breton. As reflected in this website's Privacy statement, no part of the information you send from this page will be stored, published by the website without the express consent mentioned above, shared with third parties or used for any other purpose than contact directly with you.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Peugeot–ShellTeam informationRegisteredFranceFounded1901Disbanded1986DisciplineRoadBicyclesPeugeotTeam name history1901–19041905–19241925–19551956–19621963–19641965–19751976–19811982–19851986PeugeotPeugeot–WolberPeugeot–DunlopPeugeot–BP–DunlopPeugeot–BP–EnglebertPeugeot–BP–MichelinPeugeot–Esso–MichelinPeugeot–Shell–MichelinPeugeot–ShellPeugeot team was a French professional cycling team that promoted and rode Peugeot racing bikes.It is listed as the most successful cycling team of all time, on, with a large margin on the second placed team, Alcyon.Contents1 History2 Major wins3 References4 External linksHistoryPeugeot cycles started producing bicycles in 1882, and from then on it was involved in sponsoring cyclists.At the beginning of the century a Peugeot cycling team existed. Teams Z - Peugeot 1987 - 1989 ID 206 Peopleįeedback, corrections or suggestions? Send a comment about this page.Ĭomments will only be published on this page together with your name (your real name is not mandatory) if you give your express consent in the body of the message you send. ![]()
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