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Sebastien Loeb has clinched his 6th overall crown in the World Rally Championship, after winning Rally Great Britain ahead of his title rival Mikko Hirvonen. Coming into Day 3 of the event with more than 30 seconds of advantage over his Ford counter-candidate for ...
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Sebastien Loeb will enter the second day of competition in Rally GB still on top of the timing sheets, but his lead has now been cut to only 5.3 seconds after the last 3 special stages of the day. The Frenchman began the day on a high note and put almost 9 seconds ...
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Sebastien Loeb has set off his title-defending effort in Great Britain with a great few runs on Friday, as the Frenchman leads the WRC field after SS3 by a comfortable 8.9-second lead over title rival Mikko Hirvonen.
The weather forecast for this weekend's Rally Great ...
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Sebastien Loeb has the chance to become the first 6-time champion of the World Rally Championship in the history of the sport, yet he insisted he will not think about it too much during the upcoming season finale in Great Britain. The Frenchman is currently ...
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Ken Block to Join Monster WRC TeamWRCThe WRC world is about to heat up next season, with rumors surfacing that rally and extreme sports star Ken Block is about to sign a deal with Monster Energy Drink World Rally Team, in a move which according to Autosport may be one of the most important in the history of the sport. Not necessarily because he will join WRC, but because, by doing so, the championship may head States side in the upcoming years. According to the source, Block will team up with Chris Atkinson, former Subaru and Citroen Junior Rally team driver. The deal will be signed for a three-year period and is expected to be closed next month. "Ken Block is an iconic figure in US motorsport and a major box office personality. It wouldn't get much better than this for the WRC going into North America," ... >> Read more |
Heading to the season finale with only a one-point advantage over Sebastien Loeb, Ford's Mikko Hirvonen will today begin his preparation for the most important event in his rallying career so far, the upcoming Rally Great Britain. The Finnish driver is set on ...
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Rally New Zealand will become a mixed-surface event next year in the World Rally Championship, even if only for one super special stage. According to a statement from the organizers of the aforementioned event, the rally will feature a street-circuit Super Special ...
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Although enthused with the behavior of his brand new Citroen C4 WRC during Rally of Spain the other weekend, Norwegian driver Petter Solberg is still not convinced he will use the car during the 2010 campaign. The former world champion admitted he still doesn't ...
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Sebastien Loeb needed his teammate Dani Sordo to deliver an outstanding performance in his home rally last weekend, and the Spaniard did not disappoint him. The Citroen driver who is yet to win a WRC event in his career drove a perfect rally in the first two days ...
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Sebastien Loeb got exactly what he wanted this weekend: a perfect 1-2 finish in Rally Spain that would get him within one point of his title rival Mikko Hirvonen with only one round to go. The Frenchman started the Catalonian event trailing his teammate Dani Sordo ...
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Dani Sordo took off to a perfect start in his home rally of Catalonia on Friday, as he topped the timing sheets after special stage 1, a full second ahead of championship leader and title favorite Mikko Hirvonen. Sordo's teammate and reigning champion Sebastien ...
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With Sebastien Loeb and Mikko Hirvonen battling for the 2009 title in the final 2 rounds of the season, everybody seems to have forgotten that there might be someone else eager to win a round this year apart from those two. As most of you might have already ...
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There will be plenty of action in the World Rallying Championship this weekend, as the title fight between reigning champion Sebastien Loeb and Mikko Hirvonen will resume on the asphalt roads of Spain. Heading towards Catalonia with a 5-point deficit to ...
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With only 2 rounds to go in the World Rally Championship and 5 points to recuperate to Mikko Hirvonen in the overall classification, Sebastien Loeb can only pray his teammate Dani Sordo will be up to the task of helping him clinch a 6th consecutive title in the series. ...
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Citroen Total today apologized to Sebastien Loeb for the technical infringement that caused him to drop one position in the overall classification of Rally Australia last weekend. After winning the Aussie round with more than 10 seconds ahead of title rival Mikko ...
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Although Mikko Hirvonen won the Rally Australia event over the course of last weekend, the Finnish driver admitted he doesn't quite feel like a winner. On the dusty roads of New South Wales, the Ford driver only managed the runner-up spot in the timetable, but was ...
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For the second time this season, reigning WRC champion Sebastien Loeb had to pay tribute to a technical infringement from his Citroen team and was demoted one place in the overall classification of Rally Australia. Although he finished the Aussie round on top of ...
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The Rally Australia organizers were forced to cancel the 6th stage of the event on Friday, after a group of protesters started to throw rocks at the WRC cars on the course. After failing to prevent the Australian event from taking place on environmental grounds in ...
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Petter Solberg has finally inked a deal for the remaining 2 rounds of the WRC season – Rally Australia excluded due to financial difficulties – with Citroen. According to British magazine Autosport, it seems the Norwegian ace will drive a 2008-spec ...
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After an exciting first day in Rally Australia, it will be Ford's Jari-Matti Latvala the first driver to tackle the dusty roads of the event on Saturday, after finishing the first day of action some 2.2 seconds ahead of Citroen Junior Team's Sebastien ...
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