Gilles Panizzi, Juho Hanninen and Jan Kopecky will form a three car Skoda team for IRC Rallye Monte Carlo 2009

Auto-Hebdo magazine has revealed that Gilles Panizzi, Juho Hanninen and Jan Kopecky will drive in a three car Skoda Fabia S2000 team for Rallye Monte Carlo in January.

All three drivers have been recently testing for Skoda Motorsport, driving Fabia Super 2000's in the French Alps, Austria and the Czech Republic as the team prepares for Monte Carlo. This fuelled speculation of a three car assault on the IRC season opening Monte Carlo and now this would appear to be the case according to the French publication.

Onboard footage Skoda Fabia S2000 from testing earlier in the year with Raimund Baumschlager

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