The WRC's rock star has left the building
The farewell tour is over and Sebastien Loeb has left the stages. DAVID EVANS recounts one last weekend chasing the legend, and how this down-to-earth superhero lived with rock star status
He stopped. He came back. He smiled. He went.
And now he's gone.
Sebastien Loeb is no longer a driver in the World Rally Championship. I can still hardly take it in as I type it. And I had absolutely no idea just how emotional his final rally would be... emotional that is for everybody but the man himself. Loeb, you see, is not a crier.
For me, this was a two-part problem (Loeb's departure, not the fact that he wasn't shedding many tears). The first part is that I don't like change or saying goodbye. The second part is that we haven't had a superhero retire for quite a while now.
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