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Article: STILL THE ONE; Sebastien Loeb remains master of the World Rally Championship.(NEWS)
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- AutoWeek
- Article date:
- June 15, 2009
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Byline: ANTHONY PEACOCK
At the midway point of the World Rally Championship season, Sebastien Loeb leads the driv-ers' standings for Citroen, 17 points ahead of Ford's Mikko Hirvonen. Citroen leads Ford by 29 points in the manufacturers' rankings. > The WRC features just 12 rounds this year, meaning that every result is relatively significant, with five story lines characterizing the season to date.
FIVE IN A ROW
After Loeb, 35, won the year's first five rallies, people began to ask whether he could win all 12. One leading European bookmaker set the odds at 8:1; Loeb rated his prospects as "extremely slim. Sure enough, on the most recent rally, ...