As Sebastien Loeb celebrates his record-breaking sixth WRC crown, spare a thought for his Citroen team-mate Dani Sordo who played a crucial role in supporting Loeb’s title chase. We caught up with him in the Cardiff Service Park at the Rally GB and asked for his lucky numbers.
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I don’t have a lucky number, but if I did it would be number two. I was born on May 2, the competition number of my Citroen C4 rally car is two and it’s also my highest finishing position in a World Championship rally – I’ve done it 14 times. Two weeks ago, I was second on the Catalunya Rally. I’ve been runner-up on my home rally for the last three years running, on each occasion with my team-mate, Sebastien Loeb, in front.
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That’s how many points I’ve scored in my career as a WRC driver, starting with my first point which I scored in my first race: the 2006 Monte Carlo Rally driving a Citroen Xsara World Rally Car. Since then, I’ve had 77 stage wins and 24 podiums, but no overall rally victories. That’s not easy, but I feel I’m getting closer all the time. But in the three years I’ve been with the Citroen factory team we’ve won the manufacturers’ championship twice and that’s important as well, no?
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My earliest motorsport memory is from when I was five. My father was a rally driver who used to race a Renault 5. I remember him winning when I was very little. I think that’s what inspired me to be a rally driver too. But my first competition car was in a three: a bastardised BMW 3 series which I raced in various hillclimbs in Cantabria. It was quite shit.
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The total number of times the Rally GB has been run. Dani’s competed in four of them. In 2006 he finished seventh, in 2007 he was fifth, this year and last year he was third.
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I think my consistency is one of my greatest strengths. I’ve competed in 71 rallies and I’ve only failed to finish nine of them. My first WRC event was the Catalunya Rally in 2003, driving a Group N Mitsubishi Lancer. After winning the Spanish Championship in 2004 at the wheel of a Citroen C2 Super 1600, I moved up to the Junior World Rally Championship in 2005, which I also won.
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As in, there’s only one Carlos Sainz. The Spanish world champion rally driver is a legend in Spain and happens to be Dani’s mentor. “Carlos is a hero in Spain. He’s nearly as famous as the King, perhaps that’s why so many fans call him ‘King Carlos’ or ‘El Matador’.” Carlos’s former co-driver, Marc Marti has been Dani’s co-driver since his Junior Rally World Championship days.
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