Sebastien Loeb has won the 2007 FIA World Rally drivers’ championship following the Wales Rally GB, the final round in the series.
Loeb takes the title by 4 points, with Marcus Gronholm the vice-champion and Mikko Hirvonen third. The Frenchman is only the third driver in the 30-year history of the WRC to have taken four crowns - and only the second to have done it consecutively, equally Tommi Makinen’s record. Crash.net
Sebastien Loeb of France clinched a fourth straight rally world championship title on Sunday by placing third in the season-ending event in Wales.
Loeb, 33, who drives a Citroen C4, equalled the mark of Finland’s Tommi Makinen who lifted the trophy 1996-1999. Bangkok Post.com
Finland’s Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) achieved a handsome victory in the rally, raced in difficult foggy conditions. His fellow countryman and teammate Marcus Grönholm, in turn, came in second in the season’s final race as well as in the WRC overall standings.
Grönholm lost the World Championship by a mere four points to the Citroën pilot Sebastien Loeb, whose assured driving over the weekend guaranteed the Frenchman third place in the Wales Rally GB and his fourth consecutive World Championship. Helsingin Sanomat
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