Sebastien Loeb wants to go racing in tandem with his rally programme

According to L’Equipe Sebastien Loeb has stated that he would like to have a racing programme in parallel to his WRC commitments.

He is contracted with Citroen until the end of 2009 and it would appear Loeb is talking about the 2010 season. Loeb didn’t specify which discipline of racing he wants to do, but speculation has been linking Citroen with an imminent move to… Continue reading

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Key VW Motorsport figures at Rallye Deutschland while Citroen employees sighted at latest DTM race at Nurburgring

Senior Volkswagen personnel were present at Rally Germany last weekend as reported by rallye-magazin.de. Michel Bernard and Uwe Balds, two senior figures from the VW Motorsport department, were present. Uwe Balds is responsible for press activities at VW Motorsport.

This visit adds further speculation that VW will commit to a WRC programme, incorporating the new regs, after VW motorsports boss Kris Nissen visited Rally Finland earlier in the month.

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Citroen to remain in WRC and are developing a S2000 car according to Dani Sordo

In an article on WRC is Free, Dani Sordo has stated to a Spanish website that Citroen are developing a new car in accordance with the new WRC technical regulations. It isn’t clear what model of Citroen is being developed but some photo-shopped images appeared a number of months ago suggesting a C3 S2000. This news would appear to quell rumours of Citroen’s imminent withdrawal from WRC and switch to… Continue reading

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