Quote Originally Posted by focus206 View Post
What a silly comment. Of course you're allowed to brag about your victories, but it's just misleading to say you're the national champion WITHOUT specifying the category, because by "national champion" it's assumed "national overall champion".
Sebastien Loeb doesn't call himself 10 times world rally champion. Yet he won 9 world rally championships + 1 JWRC title in 2001.
Sebastien Ogier doesn't call himself 9 times world rally champion. Yet he won 8 world rally championships + 1 JWRC title in 2008.
Saying "I won the 2022 Rally4 national rally championship" is NOT the same as "I won the 2022 national rally championship".
In the world of motorcycle racing, it seems quite commonplace. For example it is often said that Rossi is 9 times world champion, along with Marquez being at a similar level, be it the media circus or the riders themselves. In actuality, Rossi won the main class 7 times and the lower classes twice, but is common for him to be called 9 times world champion and a big thing was always made about whether he would win his 10th world championship title.