Pascal Enjolras: “I was very lucky to experience what I experienced in motorsport”

Hello Pascal! We knew you at the wheel of a Peugeot , c’est avec une Hyundai i20 N que l’on vous retrouve. Finalement, c’est un peu toute l’histoire d’Enjolras que l’on s’apprête à réécrire aujourd’hui !

(Laughs) Indeed, even if our name has often been linked to Peugeot, we have been operating Hyundai i20 R5s for several years in rally, with the assistance of Andrea Adamo (manager of Hyundai Motorsport. Editor’s note). We wanted to stand out, do something innovative while benefiting from a more privileged status with a manufacturer…

It’s easy to imagine that you grew up in an environment conducive to motorsport…

Exactly. Even though I was born in Rodez (Aveyron), I spent my entire childhood living to the rhythm of my father's career, first in the Paris region, then near Lille (Hauts-de-France. Editor’s note). He was preparing kits for Simca 1000, which is how he quickly joined the Simca Rallye Team. In the garage, there were always cars that my father was working on, and it was always difficult to live with! As school wasn't really my thing, it was complicated to see my father go racing every weekend... I wanted to do like him, to make a living from my passion.

As a child, what did you want to do with your life?

I played football. I was at the Lille training center, my father even wanted me to join the Paris Saint-Germain training center! Since it was working pretty well, he wasn't too keen on giving me a ride. At that time, my brother and I were more interested in motocross than cars. For my father, it was out of the question to let us do that! We then started talking about karting. En redescendant vivre dans la région de Montpellier (Hérault), j’ai roulé pour la première fois