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And among other things, best loose surface vs tarmac wins ratio : 56.4 / 46.4% of all world rally champions.
Slightly better than Röhrl with 14 wins vs 78.
Second best is Mäkinen 70.8% / 29.2%
Like Dim said Loeb won 23 different world championship rallies, that's 10 more than second best, Carlos Sainz.
You should stop with the numbers now... some people are still in pain and they try to recuperate... and you twist the knife in the wound... you are a bad man !!!
That pain never end and those wound never heals. But come on, maybe there is something more coming, those numbers and records are amazing!
Here is least one masochist waiting beating again, again...
LOL.. i will drink some kosu with that :DQuote:
Originally Posted by T.Maanteiden kuningas
??? ????? - jamas - cheers - kippis! Is that right?! ;)
some paragraphs i found at French forums.They are from guys very close to Loeb(Helena,Heintz etc)
is with google translate,not so good some times.
Daniel Elena , his co-pilot : " From late 1998 to July 1999 , I squatted couch mother Seb not to increase the return from Monaco and Alsace and save It's obvious . it has many welded us. we did not have money to change our mule , which was almost fucked up, so I had to push every morning to boot . Sometimes we do not even have what we pay a sandwich or a coffee during reconnaissance . we slept in the car at the start of the special saving a hotel night . we were in the galley , but we were motivated to block this out together. " - The Team
**We slept in the car at the start of the special 1999
His father, Guy : " The passion of motorsport came when he was able to offer a moped he tampered I do not know where he had gone to fetch Probably scrap. . . "
"Everything he loves, he does it well. School It 's not so much that it bothered him , it was perhaps his mother. She was a math teacher and he had third . It has perhaps discouraged do math . "
" As a teenager he has made me drool from the time when, at eleven o'clock at night, midnight, he had not returned with an old 206 with an engine standing with a piece of string . Yes , I drooled a lot . "
" He has worn tires, brake pads . Fortunately, the mechanics were friendly with him. Seb has had a difficult time, he did not earn money. He notes astronomical phone. " - AFP
**It has made me drool
Dominique Heintz : " Overnight , I found a young officer who had never done anything the first two stages , I was really scared reached the finish of the special but I thought . . we had been lucky and it would eventually stop I was worried I got out of the car and I said to my friend : . . ' you take the combination , I do not back with him. either he 's crazy or he's a genius . ' I still go back to the end of the rally because the regulation prohibits changing copilot during the rally. I continued and it was only happiness. " - Eurosport.fr
Gilles Panizzi, who won the Tour de Corse in 2000 and 2002: "With Sebastian, we finally just fought one against the other because I was at the high end of my period when it arrived I remember. Sanremo Rally 2001 in his first World with Citroen, where I fought for the victory. I knew where he came from, and that he would soon make us 'shit'! "- Eurosport.fr
Bruno Saby , winner of Rally France 1986 and Monte Carlo in 1988 : "I 've seen a lot of drivers rallies, Vatanen , Salonen , Kankkunen Biaison Sainz and others ... I remember Kankkunen was very little special recognition compared to what was allowed and it always came out super lap immediately . Sébastien like him in this capacity to integrate very quickly all the constraints and characteristics of a new field to go immediately very quickly. But of all the drivers I've seen , I think it's Henri Toivonen like him the most. Toivonen was fascinating on the tar , the most formidable of all Finns . rapprocherais I also Sebastian Walter Rörhl , a gifted one gifted with more to Sebastian : . . . serious competence in development as well, and the worker side Sebastian is tHE phenomenon of rallies, and we must realize that we live a pretty unique thing . in particular, I was fascinated by his first Monte Carlo , lost in 2002 due to a very bad claim a competing team. During three days , he had made a demonstration on the most trapping field that can be find rally. Because in Monte Carlo , we never have the right tires ! it's always a compromise when it is a compromise ... In this case , experience compensates . Except that n 't was ! Sebastian is someone very lovely. It has a lucid , humble . has never freaked out , never took the big head. " - Eurosport.fr
Guy Fréquelin director at Citroën Sport: "I put constantly highlight the part that I was special in every where I went, Marko Märtin (Ford driver) to make him understand that he had absolutely refine its management's. Märtin trajectories were for me, total perfection, unthinkable even rally. I have not stopped to tell Seb and incorporated this parameter masterfully while retaining his own style. "- Auto-Hebdo
Jean-Claude Vaucard, technical director. "It was an experiment in making Xsara Seb understeer, very difficult to rotate in turns Returning the test, he did not complain about anything and his time was excellent. we looked at the data and it was understood. He corrected unconsciously playing on the pedal, without the information through the brain. Knowing driving a different car not easy to keep 'fast' is his great strength. "- Eurosport.fr
Carlos Sainz , his teammate : " I predicted in June last year that would champion Sebastien He drives beautifully and he deserves this title. ".
2005
Guy Fréquelin : " What I like is that it goes to the main He does not speak to say nothing , and most importantly, never make excuses Honesty is something essential thing . . . he did not come to the idea of not trusting him. it is a pleasure to work with a guy like that . with him, I never had to raise his voice . " - The Team
Guy Fréquelin about the motorcycle accident which deprived him of four rallies late in the season : "I immediately told him , when he told me the news and talked bike : " Seb , you crazy not my mouth. " (...) I told the team and Claude Satinet it was a bicycle accident while knowing that this was not a ... But I did not have desire nor Seb tells me that it had happened to him while he was riding a motorcycle enduro . " - Auto -Hebdo
**Seb , not fuck my mouth
Gilles Panizzi : "I have nothing but compliments towards Sebastian This is perhaps the best driver of all time He drives 100% One pilot was able to beat this year , Marcus [ Grönholm . . . ] , who tried to go faster but made ??mistakes .
What was he most advanced ? Difficult to say but Sebastien has copied person , unlike many . Solberg, for example, was not well on the pavement and began to look at me for dipping . He finished in less drag , follow more tense trajectories. At Peugeot , Gronholm was not picking either the steering on the tarmac and kept asking me videos embedded in 1999-2000. He wanted all the time riding as a passenger to look like I did. He often went pale with the car but always came back to ride. One day he even fell to vomit . He also asked my telemetry readings to superimpose the curves.
In fact, Sebastian is much better suited to land the Norse tar . In 2003 , he took a big hit in McRae and Sainz Citroën ! I can even tell you that they did not know what happened to them ! Sebastian, this is the kind of "monster" that we see every thirty years ! THE rally driver has never known . At the time, was quoted Walter Rorhl but Sebastian could have a career in the 70 , 80 or 90 with the same success . Nobody could get it. Person . Sebastian is beatable on two to three races but not a championship. Sebastian has an amazing journey, this is an "airplane" as they say in the jargon . "- Eurosport.fr
Marcus Gronholm , his greatest opponent : "The first year was not very good on the ground but he quickly learned to be Carlos Sainz and Colin McRae have clearly seen ( in 2003) on the . . asphalt, it was immediately on top. " - Eurosport.fr
Mikko Hirvonen (Ford), second in Finland, the first victory Sebastien Loeb: "He won, I lost We played cat and mouse all weekend and it was a fantastic rally up. to the end. We went blow for blow. This was the permanent bid. was done three days of racing at speeds completely crazy and, quite honestly, I can tell you that it was even faster than the last year, when I was fighting against Marcus (Grönholm, considered the expert ès-Rally Finland). "-
Olivier Quesnel, the Citroën WRT : . "What that carried Loeb this weekend is exceptional one can imagine the pressure he had on his shoulders He was able to put it aside when it came to focus . get the best times . He did not necessarily need to win this rally ( in France ) to be titled, but his temperament winner is such that he could not provide . He once again proved that it is the best current driver . " -
Guy Fréquelin : " If he ( Olivier Quesnel ) had the intelligence to continue to use my services , I think I would have been able to handle the problems between Seb Ogier and before the situation escalates J . ' would immediately put the record straight with Ogier . He was there to learn, to gain experience , to grow in all. rather than say that, Quesnel saw him as a driver who was able to beat Seb . actually, he wanted to have his own Seb who was finally able to beat Sebastian. it was not anything. And it went to war that I was forced to remotely manage in 2011. If I do not intervene during the summer, with Jean- Marc Wales ( then CEO of both brands PSA ) Seb at once goes to Volskwagen . to my eyes, and saw what he meant to the brand Citroën , with all its victories and titles achieved in 2003 , it was unthinkable . Following to leave the team this mess , I replace Olivier Quesnel by Yves Matton . " - Auto -Hebdo
Sébastien Ogier (VW), second in the Monte Carlo Rally: "Once again, Loeb was a great performance, it was perfect."
Great quotes! Thank you, dimviii.