Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena have added to their remarkable record with victory in Rally Argentina on the weekend. It is their seventh consecutive win in the event and their 70th WRC win overall. The Citroën master pairing finished 15.2 seconds ahead of their teammate Mikko Hirvonen. The one-two result gives the French team a [...]
Ooh la la, isn’t this new creation from Citroën quite something! It’s been labelled Numéro 9 and is described as fresh look at the DS line. Hmm, it’s really a DS9 preview, then? The Numéro 9 will be officially unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show later this month. More than simply a DS9, Citroën say [...]
Ford driver Mads Ostberg can finally step up on a makeshift podium in his lounge room and celebrate his Rally Portugal win after Citroën decided not to appeal Mikko Hirvonen’s disqualification from the event. In post-race scrutineering officials found irregularities with the clutch and turbo in Hirvonen’s DS3 WRC. Citroën claim there were no performance [...]
Almost as soon as the e-ink had dried on our WRC article informing of Mikko Hirvonen’s win at Rally Portugal word arrived informing he had been disqualified from the event; now we know why the official results have been slow to update. In post-race scrutineering officials found Hirvonen’s Citroën DS3 WRC had differences between the [...]
Finnish driver pairing Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen won the 2012 Rally Portugal on the weekend. It was their 15th career win and their first since joining the Citroën World Rally Team in the off-season. It’s unusual, it seems, not be reporting on another Sebastien Loeb victory. It’s even more unusual due to the fact [...]
Sebastien Loeb has come away from Rally Mexico singing Two out of three ain’t bad after notching up his second win of the 2012 WRC season. A shade over 42 seconds behind was his new teammate Mikko Hirvonen, making this the first one-two for Citroën in the Loeb–Hirvonen era. We get the feeling it won’t [...]
After a couple of days for press previews the doors to the 2012 Geneva Motor Show are about to be opened to the public. Figuring you probably can’t make it we’re bringing you our biggest photo gallery ever. That’s right, there’ll be over 200 images from the floor of Geneva for you to enjoy. We’ve [...]
Somehow or other we missed the news when details for this rather stylish Citroën DS4 Racing Concept were released a few weeks back. But as it will be making its debut at Geneva in the next day or so it seemed timely to bring you these pics. Based on the regular DS4 the Racing Concept [...]
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 [...]