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The 2011 World Rally Championship season review

As expected, Sebastien Loeb won an unprecedented eighth World Rally Championship in 2011. However, he did not have it as easy as many predicted. David Evans guides you through the season.

Forget Fangio and Senna. Forget even Michael Schumacher. None of them - not one - could lay claim to being as good as Sebastien Loeb. That's what the statistics say. As far as four-wheeled motorsport goes, the governing body has never handed out as many championship trophies as it has to the Citroen-driving Frenchman.

Eight. Count them. Eight.

This year's title fight went down to the wire, but shouldn't have. Loeb had the rest of the field licked by mid-season and, once his employer remembered Loeb's history with Citroen and forgot the fact that it had signed Sebastien Ogier as a joint number one, the deal was done for another year.

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