How Ogier emerged out of Loeb's shadow to form his own WRC legend

OPINION: Adding an eighth WRC title to his name, Sebastien Ogier has bowed out from full-time rallying in style. Having been compared throughout his career with nine-time champion Sebastien Loeb, Ogier has convincingly demonstrated that he can stand on his own as one of the greatest rally drivers in history

Tom Howard Nov 22, 2021, 4:40 PM

Upd: Nov 24, 2021, 6:12 AM

Sebastien Ogier has spent much of his career living with constant comparisons to namesake and former Citroen team-mate Sebastien Loeb, statistically the World Rally Championship’s best-ever driver. Such is human nature to debate who is the all-time great in any given sport.

However, by securing an eighth world title in style, winning his final full-time WRC outing at Rally Monza, Ogier staked his claim to perhaps be remembered as the greatest ever.

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Author Tom Howard

Tom Howard is a News Editor working across both Autosport.com and Motorsport.com websites. Starting out as a sports reporter in local newspapers, Tom focussed on motorsport covering several national championships in the UK, including the BTCC.

After a period working as a freelance journalist, Tom moved to Australia in 2013 landing a job at leading Australian motorsport news outlet speedcafe.com, covering international motorsport events including F1, WRC and Supercars. Progressing to Editor in 2017, Tom was named Motorsport Australia Journalist of the Year for his work. He is also a two-time winner of Supercars Journalist of The Year (2017,2019) and a Supercars Championship Media Award winner in 2019.

Tom moved back to his native UK in 2020, firstly working in BTCC, before joining Autosport and motorsport.com in 2021.