OGIER’S EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD
Sebastien Ogier underlined his place in World Rally Championship history with his eighth world title in his final full-time campaign, while the breathtaking generation of WRC machinery, introduced in 2017 and the most spectacular cars since the Group B era, delivered a memorable last blast through the world’s toughest stages.
These perhaps seminal WRC moments played out fittingly across a greatest-hits 12-round calendar, including long-awaited returns to the iconic Safari and Acropolis rallies, as normality threatened to return after last year’s COVID-induced shortened season. Add to that a titanic title fight between Toyota team-mates Ogier and Elfyn Evans that went down to the wire (including two of the closest battles in history), a crop of young stars making their mark, and plenty of drama in between – 2021 was a season to cherish.
After he’d won four of the first six rallies, the odds on an Ogier domination were short in the summer. But to borrow an old football cliche, it was very much a season of
