Sebastien Loeb has opened the defence of his eighth world title in grand style with a comfortable win in the Rallye Monte Carlo. The French maestro, who turns 38 next month, and his co-driver Daniel Elena showed no signs of slowing down winning the rally by almost three minutes from Dani Sordo (MINI). The tricky [...]
The Monte Carlo Rally, fondly referred to as ‘The Monte’, is resuming its rightful and traditional position as the first WRC event of the year. Yesterday the top WRC teams were out in Valence giving their machines a final shakedown before taking on the full rally. You can read previews from Citroën, Ford, MINI and [...]
It doesn’t seem all that long ago we were telling you about Sebastien Loeb’s eighth world championship. But already he’s back at work testing for next month’s Monte Carlo Rally (17–22 January). After the break we bring you two videos of the Citroën DS3 WRC in action, first it’s Loeb at the wheel, then his [...]
We bring you the rather intriguing news that Mikko Hirvonen will be racing alongside Sebastien Loeb at the Citroën WRC team in 2012. Hirvonen leaves Ford after six years with a record of 14 wins and twice being runner up to Loeb in the championship (2009 and 2011). Hirvonen switching camps isn’t the real story [...]
In the end it was good fortune that handed Sebastien Loeb his eighth WRC title. Loeb was forced out of Wales Rally GB following a low-impact collision with a tourist on a non-competitive stage. Thankfully, for Loeb, his closest rival, Ford driver Mikko Hirvonen, had already retired from the event. “It’s proof that a rally [...]
A retirement for Ford’s Mikko Hirvonen at the Rally of Great Britain has handed Sebastien Loeb his eighth consecutive WRC title. The rally is still in progress, but Loeb can no longer be beaten for the crown. “Mikko was going like a bat out of hell and we were scrapping for every tenth of a [...]
Citroën super star Sebastien Loeb won Rally Spain from Ford’s Mikko Hirvonen on the weekend and in doing so put himself back in the outright lead in the chase for the 2011 drivers’ world championship. Despite an engine failure and subsequent DNF from Citroën driver Sebastien Ogier, Loeb’s victory was enough to secure a seventh [...]
Citroën will be overjoyed that a Frenchman won the team’s home event on the weekend. But it was the other Sebastien standing atop the Rally France podium, not seven-time world champion Sebastien Loeb. Sounding yet another warning shot to his established rivals was Dani Sordo at the wheel of his MINI. The Spaniard led the [...]
Sebastien Ogier won Rally Germany on the weekend. It was a sweet victory for the young Frenchman, too, who was not pleased when ordered by team bosses on Saturday morning to stay behind Loeb and not challenge for the race win. Later in the day Loeb suffered a puncture and Ogier inherited the lead, prompting [...]
Sebastien Loeb has agreed terms with Citroën to drive for them in the World Rally Championship until the end of the 2013 season. He is currently celebrating that news by holding a comfortable lead in Rally Deutschland. Talking about his contract extension Loeb says he’s looking forward to a new era in the WRC, “With [...]
From one seven-time world champion to another, the official WRC website reports Sebastien Loeb is contemplating what car he might be driving in 2012 and beyond. According to the 37-year-old Frenchman his current employer Citroën are willing, “They are waiting for me so I have to decide in the next week,” Loeb said in an [...]
Sebastien Loeb won his second Rally Finland event on the weekend, the first time a non-Finnish driver has won the rally more than once. Loeb finished 8.1 seconds ahead of Ford driver Jari-Matti Latvala. Loeb’s Citroën teammate Sebastien Ogier was third. Success in Finland gives Loeb his 66th career win and a healthy 27 point [...]
It was all Citroën in Greece over the weekend as Sebastien Ogier notched up his third WRC win for the year, adding the Acropolis Rally trophy to his cabinet. On Day 1 privateer Petter Solberg placed his DS3 WRC in a commanding lead only to be swallowed up by the works entries on Day 2. [...]
Somehow, Sebastien Loeb has managed to win Rally Argentina and extend his championship lead to 13 points. After day one Loeb was hit with a 60 second time penalty, but he proved persistence pays off by ultimately claiming the lead on the final stage to earn a slender 2.4 second win over Ford driver Mikko [...]
Seven time World Rally Champion and Citroën works driver Sebastien Loeb extended his lead in the 2011 WRC standings with victory in the Rally d’Italia Sardegna. Loeb explains being the first car our during the rally brought tricky conditions, “We started with the big disadvantage of being first out on the road on the opening [...]