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I've said this a bunch of times, they won't be back in 2014.
To be back on the grid in 2014 would require to start working on a new car sometime in 2013. If you plan to do that, you don't fire all the engineers and sell off the equipment a year before that.
Stop dreaming people. The way this was shut down ensured that this project couldn't simply be started back up quickly, the people responsible obviously wanted to rule out a quick revision of the decision.
The drivers are gone, the engineers are gone, the know-how is gone, even most of the hardware is gone. A new project would need to be started from scratch, requiring a lot of resources. If there had been any plans to start this back up, the shutdown would have been handled differently.
One of the rumors was that Quesnel was given the choice of either racing this year or building a new car for 2014. That's nonsense, none of what Peugeot did is any indication that they have plans to start this programme back up anytime soon.
I wouldn't be surprised if it takes another 15 years until we see Peugeot back, by then the company could be better off and the people who have killed this prorgamme for good might be gone as well.
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