Sébastien Loeb is at the gates of 48 years. However, the Alsatian pilot does not stop adding successes. In fact, the Frenchman is saying goodbye to the 47 in a big way, with a string of top-tier wins in a matter of just over a month. A sequence of triumphs that began on the weekend of December 18 and 19 with the victory in the last round of 2021 of Extreme E and that has ended this past February 6 with his victory in the final of the Race of Champions.
When it comes to counting Seb’s triumphs, there is everything, like in a pharmacy. The victory in the Jurassic X-Prix of Extreme E together with Cristina Gutiérrez is the success of the French rider on gravel, although it was almost more about the mud. In any case, Seb and ‘Tortu’ were very close to rounding off this triumph with the title of Extreme Ebut finally they could not prevent the winding in the first campaign of the electric series going to Johan Kristoffersson and Molly Taylor, pilots of the Nico Rosberg team.
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Sébastien Loeb finished the 44th edition of the Dakar with a bittersweet tastealthough the Gallic pilot managed two stage wins at the controls of Prodrive’s BRX Hunter T1+. It is true that these two partial victories did not serve to stop Nasser Al-Attiyah, but it is no less true that Loeb was the Qatari driver’s only real rival throughout the rally. His level at the controls of the T1 + of the Bahrain Raid Xtreme team was simply brilliant and only Al-Attiyah’s push prevented Seb from having the first ‘Touareg’ in his windows.
If in the Dakar he achieved two partial victories on the desert sand, in his jump to the WRC and on asphalt he could not have had a better performance. Sébastien Loeb achieved his eightieth victory in the World Rally Championship at the controls of the Ford Puma Rally1, the hybrid vehicle of the M-Sport team. With brilliant performance, Loeb won his eighth Monte-Carlo Rally in a direct duel against Sébastien Ogier. Isabelle Galmiche was Loeb’s co-driver in this new success in the World Rally Championship.
The finishing touch to this saga of success has been given by Sébastien Loeb in the Race of Champions. The new format on snow and ice seems to have adapted like a glove to the French driver and the nine-time WRC champion has prevailed in the individual competition with great mastery. The Alsatian driver overtook Sebastian Vettel in the final with great superiority to achieve his fourth win in the Race of Champions after winning in Gran Canaria (2003), Paris (2005) and London (2008). Together with Didier Auriol, he is the most successful driver in the individual competition of the event.