Rally world champ shines in Spain
Testing for Red Bull in Spain this week, Sebastien Loeb proved he has the skills to move from rallying to F1.
The Frenchman completed 82 laps in total. His best, a 1:22.503, placed him eighth on the timesheet, just two tenths slower than “Handsome Bob” Kubica and quicker than the likes of Nelson Piquet, Adrian Sutil and Christian Klein.
“I don’t think I’d like to take this much horsepower into the forests!” Loeb joked after the session.
“It was a great experience though and I had fun, although I have to say that driving one of these cars is tougher physically than driving my rally car.”
The test was a gift to Loeb from Red Bull - who also sponsor his Citroen rally team - for winning the World Rally drivers’ title for an unprecendented fifth time in a row.
Crasher bonus! Watch footage of Loeb’s Red Bull test below:
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1 Obama // Nov 20, 2008 at 11:26 am
Fuck off from Kubica you mother fuckers!
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