Contract fulfilled and mission accomplished for Dacia and Sébastien Loeb. From its first official outing in competition, the Romanian manufacturer signed an authoritative double on the Rallye du Maroc, with the victory of Nasser Al-Attiyah and the 2nd place of the French driver.
The Alsatian finished 5’10 behind his teammate with the highlight being two stage victories, the last of which took place this Friday. A delay which finds its source at the start of the event: after a frustrating Prologue (broken suspension wishbone), the nine-time world rally champion lost more than ten minutes at the finish of Stage 1. small regret since on the other four stages, he was certainly the fastest driver on the field.
And “excellent result” for Dacia and Loeb
“It’s a great result, especially for the team, we are first and secondrejoices Sébastien Loeb, who equaled his best result on the Rallye du Maroc (2nd in 2017 at the time on Peugeot 3008 DKR). We had some difficulties at the start of the rally during the Prologue where we encountered a problem, so we started far behind on the first stage. We were doing a good stage but we broke a steering arm following contact. At that point we had lost 10 minutes and from there we tried to make up for lost time. »
“We did four good stages, without having any problems with the car. We were on the attack all the time, everything worked perfectly. It shows that we have a good performance, the car is good, we are comfortable in it. Everything is on the right track for the Dakar”he concluded, his eyes already fixed on his main objective. From now on, Dacia and Sébastien Loeb have less than three months to fine-tune their preparation for the biggest rally-raid event (January 3-17). In any case, the excellent result of this Rally of Morocco brings a certain wind of optimism to Dacia.
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