‘I long for a no‑holds-barred multi-discipline showdown between the very best racing drivers' -
Imagine how awesome it must feel to wake up each day knowing you’re Sébastien Loeb. Especially when you’ve just won your eighth Monte Carlo Rally and executed a perfect celebratory backflip on the podium. And all just a fortnight after finishing 2nd overall on the Dakar.
But then rallying remains a sport in which the knowledge, experience and judgement gained through years of actual stage mileage cannot be short-cut with seat-time in a simulator. What makes his latest win all the more remarkable is that he was competing toe-to-toe with Sébastien Ogier – the only other active WRC driver capable of breathing the same rarefied air. Stage after stage, they used every scrap of skill and guile to out-think, out-psyche and out-drive the other.
> ‘She gestured towards a double switch on the wall. “That switch,” she said. “I want to get rid of it.”’ All of which makes me long for a true no-holds-barred multi-discipline showdown between the best of the best. Yes, there’s the Race of Champions, but entertaining though it is, with its short-format head-to-heads in weird and wonderful cars on serpentine, low-speed stadium circuits, Michèle Mouton’s made-for-TV event is akin to finding the world’s best golfers by taking the PGA Tour to a crazy golf course.
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