Surreal: Loeb got caught… and it happened

Sébastien Loeb’s participation in the 2023 Race of Champions, held in Pite Havsbad (Sweden), is in doubt until this very Saturday, the day the participating drivers play for the Nations Cup title. The Frenchman missed Friday’s training session for personal reasons and finally arrived in time to compete. He did it blindly. And without wasting any more time, his arrival was successful. In front of the Swedish public that filled the venue’s stands, a helicopter landed in the middle of the frozen track of the Arctic Circle. And there Loeb came out, to applause, in overalls and ready to waste time and hit the gas.

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The 9-time world champion, who a few weeks ago was competing in the Dakar Rally with the BRX team, where the Frenchman won a record 6 consecutive stage victories and achieved second position in the overall car category , will compete this Saturday in defense. the Crancia colors with the new ETCR World Cup champion with CUPRA, Adrien Tambay. With enough time, and without practicing before, he got off the helicopter and went straight to the car to start skidding down the snowy track and taking references.

He did a few laps and brought the car to the garage. The next thing I do is compete. However, the French team was eliminated in the first exchange and Loeb did not achieve his goal of adding as many laps as possible to the various cars they must drive in the Race of Champions in order to practice to reaffirm his crown of the Race of Champions this Sunday.