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    LOST IN ARABIA

    Mar 03, 2021 6 minutes
    “This year’s route didn’t play to my strengths or the car’s strengths ”

    THE SÉBASTIEN LOEB YOU SEE NOW – weather-beaten and suntanned after his adventures in the Saudi desert on the latest Dakar - is a very different animal to the freshfaced youngster who burst onto the world rally scene more than 20 years ago, nearly winning his first rally with a factory World Rally Car.

    These days, he looks more like a seasoned explorer than an aspiring member of a boy band. It’s easy to understand why: now aged 47, he’s won everything there is to win – nine World Rally titles and 79 WRC victories, for the record – and travelled the world in pursuit of his art. Through mud, mountains, snow, ice, asphalt and desert: in temperatures that have ranged from lower than -20deg C on Rally Sweden to more than 40deg C in the heat of the Arabian desert.

    He’s lived, laughed, loved, given it everything. So now, as he puts it himself: “I’m driving mainly for pleasure.” Mainly, because he’s still serious about

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