And not just any medal, but Légion d'honneur, the highest decoration in France.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldF
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And not just any medal, but Légion d'honneur, the highest decoration in France.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldF
Thanks for the clarification. I didn’t remember what kind of “medal” it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Juha_Koo
According to the L'Equipe's polls Loeb is on the podium of the favorite sportsmen of the French people for several years, in the last one in july he was 2nd.
He did several TV ads for Citroen, Total and Red Bull of course and also Playstation, Mennen, Allianz, Elephant Bleu (car washing service)...
It's paradoxical but Loeb is more known than the WRC in France !!!
edit : http://www.tns-sofres.com/_assets/fi...p-sportifs.pdf
I'm sure I remember seeing the playstation one years ago :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tofrallye29
Very good marketing for France and French rally fans, but what about the rest of the world?
If he stays much longer, every sponsership for every car entered in the WRC would be a french firm :laugh:
Interesting comments. I don't think that Loeb has been made that much of a big deal in the rest of the world. I mean he is no McRae of Tiger Woods in terms of name recognition. I see WAY more ken block tshirts then anything else, but then again, i think that has nothing to do with the WRC.
at least he is a big name in france. what about fin rally champions? are they big superstars in the uk? i dont think so... nobody know them except from few that follow the wrcQuote:
Originally Posted by tfp
was burns a big name in any country outside uk? again no... only colin was well known and that's mainly due to the colin mcrae games
The number of people fed up with Loeb wins grows (in the forum too).
So, what's the point to stay at citroen other than he got used to be on top of the pack.
Great feeling, sure, but... as with everithing,
one sunny day out of the blue comes to mind the magic word - Quit.
To be or not to be - the epic dilema.
We all had to deal with that one at some point in our live.
But not Loeb and not yet.
He'll stop another day.
Still has a trick or two kept deep in his pocket making everyone in every team crave for him.
Burns was popular in NZ and so is Solberg. We all still yearn for the Possum Bourne days more however.
Plan9, I suspect you're talking about rally people. If you walked down any NZ street asking people if they knew these names most would think Richard Burns was the Dunedin liquor magnate and Petter Solberg was a pacific island rugby player. Possum was a household name but I suspect even he has been forgotten by most.
Yeah, I think that as 2 of the 3 are no longer with us they may have lost some recognition. I am disappointed that Possum may have lost some recognition, I think his book sold very well when it first came out down here though. BTW, you have a mean flag bro!Quote:
Originally Posted by sollitt