Sebastien loeb
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Publicado: 21 de marzo de 2012
Nationality:French
Date of Birth:26 Feb 74
Car:Citroen DS3 WRC
Team:Citroen Total World Rally Team
Co-driver:Daniel Elena
FIA Championship Titles:2004-2011 FIA World Rally Champion;2001 FIA Super 1600 Drivers’ Cup Champion
WRC Debut:Spain 1999
WRC Rally Wins:69
Website:www.sebastienloeb.com
Loeb is glacially cool, totally focussed and sublimely quick in allconditions. In his first full year in the WRC in 2003, Loeb almost took the title. In his second season, he easily clinched the crown with a record-matching six wins. In 2006 he secured his third consecutivetitle without even contesting the last four rounds of the championship after he broke his shoulder falling off a mountain bike.
Now an eight-time champion and having amassed 67 wins at WRC level,Loeb begins the 2012 season in Citroen’s DS3 WRC gunning for title number nine and more outright success alongside long-term co-driver Daniel Elena.
A talented gymnast, Loeb developed a keen interestin rallying in his late teens. In 1998 he took two wins in the French Citroen Saxo Trophy series before securing the title the following year. Citroen took notice and with the support of the Frenchfederation, the FFSA, and benefactor Dominique Heintz it wasn’t long before Loeb was competing on the world stage. He won the Super 1600 Drivers’ Cup - the forerunner to the Junior World RallyChampionship - in 2001, and claimed his first overall victory on Rallye Deutschland the following season in a Citroen Xsara WRC.
He quickly became established as an all-round performer with wins onasphalt, gravel and snow. Having chased Petter Solberg for the 2003 crown - losing out on the final round - he went one better in 2004 to become world champion for the first time.
His dominant performancein 2005, when he won 10 events, set a new record for the most wins in a season and marked Loeb out as one of rallying’s all-time greats.
With Citroen taking a sabbatical in 2006 to develop its...
Date of Birth:26 Feb 74
Car:Citroen DS3 WRC
Team:Citroen Total World Rally Team
Co-driver:Daniel Elena
FIA Championship Titles:2004-2011 FIA World Rally Champion;2001 FIA Super 1600 Drivers’ Cup Champion
WRC Debut:Spain 1999
WRC Rally Wins:69
Website:www.sebastienloeb.com
Loeb is glacially cool, totally focussed and sublimely quick in allconditions. In his first full year in the WRC in 2003, Loeb almost took the title. In his second season, he easily clinched the crown with a record-matching six wins. In 2006 he secured his third consecutivetitle without even contesting the last four rounds of the championship after he broke his shoulder falling off a mountain bike.
Now an eight-time champion and having amassed 67 wins at WRC level,Loeb begins the 2012 season in Citroen’s DS3 WRC gunning for title number nine and more outright success alongside long-term co-driver Daniel Elena.
A talented gymnast, Loeb developed a keen interestin rallying in his late teens. In 1998 he took two wins in the French Citroen Saxo Trophy series before securing the title the following year. Citroen took notice and with the support of the Frenchfederation, the FFSA, and benefactor Dominique Heintz it wasn’t long before Loeb was competing on the world stage. He won the Super 1600 Drivers’ Cup - the forerunner to the Junior World RallyChampionship - in 2001, and claimed his first overall victory on Rallye Deutschland the following season in a Citroen Xsara WRC.
He quickly became established as an all-round performer with wins onasphalt, gravel and snow. Having chased Petter Solberg for the 2003 crown - losing out on the final round - he went one better in 2004 to become world champion for the first time.
His dominant performancein 2005, when he won 10 events, set a new record for the most wins in a season and marked Loeb out as one of rallying’s all-time greats.
With Citroen taking a sabbatical in 2006 to develop its...
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