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Sébastien Loeb's Quest To Dominate Everything Moves To Team Ownership
Sébastien Loeb's Quest To Dominate Everything Moves To Team Ownership-October 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:48

Not content with pwning the World Rally Championship, Pike's Peak, the Race of Champions, the World Touring Car Championship...ah, this list gets long, so I'll stop there, Sébastien Loeb now wants to dominate team ownership in the WTCC.

It's hard not to like Sébastien Loeb. He's a man with the opportunity and skill to race all the things, and he does just that. Somewhere in that petite frame of his must be a madman with an insatiable need to win at everything.

Loeb will remain in Citroën's factory driver lineup for 2015, but is also starting to enter yet another pair of Citroën C-Elysees next year.

This isn't Sébastien Loeb Racing's first rodeo as a team, as they've been competing in GT and sportscar racing for a while. However, being alongside the Citroën factory team in WTCC shouldn't hurt, either.

Per Citroën team principal Yves Matton:

Entrusting the two private Citroën C-Elysée WTCCs to SLR was an obvious choice. The two cars will be good-as-new reconditioned 2014 chassis, complete with all the developments we introduce next season.

ex-factory race cars? Sounds like just Loeb's style.

Citroën didn't expect to win the World Touring Car Championship manufacturer's title in its first…

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