Citroën World Rally Team

Citroën
World Rally Championship career
Full name	Citroen Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
Base	Versailles, France
Team principal(s)	Yves Matton
Technical director	Xavier Mestelan-Pinon
Drivers	Kris Meeke Craig Breen Stéphane Lefebvre Khalid Al Qassimi
Co-drivers	Paul Nagle Scott Martin Gabin Moreau Chris Patterson
Chassis	Citroën DS3 WRC
Tyres	Michelin
Debut	2000
Constructors' Championships	8 (2003–2005, 2008–2012)
Drivers' Championships	9 (2004–2012)
Rally wins	94

The Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team is the Citroën factory backed entry into the World Rally Championship, run by Citroën Racing.

The team

Management

Yves Matton – team director
Xavier Mestelan-Pinon – technical director

Partners

Total
Abu Dhabi
Michelin
Eurodatacar

History

1990–1998 seasons

The Citroen ZX Rally raid won the Rally raid Constructors' Championship in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 with Pierre Lartigue and Ari Vatanen.

Citroen also won the Dakar Rally in 1991, 1994, 1995, and 1996. In addition, Citroen won the Pharaons Rally in 1991, the Tunisia rally in 1992 and the Paris-Moscow-Beijing Rally, also in 1992

1998–2000 seasons

Citroën Xsara Kit car at the 1998 Rallye Cantabria

In 1998, following its withdrawal from Rally raid competition, Citroën Sport began competing in rallying with the Xsara Kit Car. Equipped with a 2L engine developing 280 hp more than 8 000 rpm, this car started competing in the French Rally Championship in 1998. At the wheel, Philippe Bugalski won drivers titles in 1998 and 1999, and Sébastien Loeb won the driver title in 2001.

In addition to the French championship, Citroën also entered the Xsara Kit Car on asphalt rounds of the World Rally Championship, Bugalski finishing fifth on the cars WRC debut on Rally Catalunya in April 1998, while Jesús Puras retired with engine problems. On Tour de Corse, Fabien Doenlen finished seventh and Patrick Magaud finished tenth. Bugalski retired with broken suspension. On Rallye Sanremo, Magaud finished 11th, Puras retired with engine problems and Bugalski crashed out.

In 1999, Bugalski and Puras were entered in Xsara Kit Cars on the three asphalt rallies again, and Bugalski won in Catalunya and Corsica, Puras finishing runner-up in Corsica.

2001 season

In 2001, the Citroën Xsara T4 WRC debuted on selected rounds of the WRC.^[1] Jesús Puras won in Corsica,^[1] while at Sanremo Sébastien Loeb finished second on his first WRC rally in a WRC car.

Loeb and the team also dominated in the first Junior World Rally Championship season with the Citroën Saxo VTS S1600.^[2]

2002 season

Citroën Xsara WRC at the Finland in 2002

For the 2002 season, Citroën contested 8 of the 14 Championship rounds.^[1] Sébastien Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena provisionally won the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally but due to an illegal tyre change, received a time penalty demoting him to second. He later won his first rally at Rallye Deutschland.^[1] The team also got a third place finish on the Safari Rally with Thomas Radstrom.^[1]

2003 season

For 2003, Citroën entered their first full year in the World Rally Championship. They signed former World Champions Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz from Ford. Bugalski was also entered in a fourth car on asphalt rallies. The team won the first event of the season, Rallye Monte Carlo, with a 1–2–3 finish,^[1] with Loeb winning ahead of McRae and Sainz.^[1] Loeb also won Rallye Deutschland and Rallye Sanremo. Sainz won the Rally of Turkey. In their first full year, the team took the Manufacturers' championship,^[1] while Loeb finished second to Petter Solberg in the Drivers' championship. Sainz finished third and McRae was seventh.

2004 season

Citroën Xsara WRC at the 2004 Cyprus Rally

Citroën reduced their team for 2004, dropping McRae. Loeb won the Monte Carlo Rally, the Swedish Rally, the Cyprus Rally, the Rally of Turkey, Rallye Deutschland and Rally Australia.^[1] Sainz won at Rally Argentina. Loeb won his first Drivers' championship.^[1] The team took the Manufacturers' championship.^[1] Sainz won on Rally Argentina and finished fourth in the standings.

The team expanded their efforts in the JWRC with the Citroën C2 S1600.

2005 season

For the 2005 season, the primary drivers were Loeb and François Duval.^[1] Due to a string of poor performances, Duval was replaced by Sainz for Turkey and Greece.^[1] Loeb won the Monte Carlo Rally, Rally New Zealand, Rally Italia Sardinia, Rally Cyprus, the Rally of Turkey, the Acropolis Rally, Rally Argentina, Rallye Deutschland, Rallye de France, and Rally Catalunya on his way to win the Drivers' Championship.^[1] Duval took his debut win at the Rally Australia.^[1] Citroën took the Manufacturers' championship.^[1]

2006 season

Citroën Xsara WRC at the 2006 Rally Australia

For 2006, Citroën WRT took a one year sabbatical, while developing a new car. Loeb was joined by Xavier Pons and third-driver Dani Sordo at the semi-privateer team Kronos Citroën, which received significant funding from Citroën Sport running their Xsara WRC cars. Sordo was soon promoted to second driver over Pons. Meanwhile Loeb again won the Drivers' title, despite missing events in Turkey, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain, after breaking his arm in a mountain biking accident. He was replaced by former world champion Colin McRae for Turkey, who was then replaced by Pons for Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain.^[1]

2007 season

For the 2007 season, Citroën officially re-entered the World Rally Championship with the all new C4 WRC, driven by Loeb and Sordo.^[1] Loeb diced with Ford's Marcus Grönholm throughout the year, only securing his record-equaling fourth straight Drivers' title at the final event, the Rally GB.^[3] Loeb won in Monte Carlo, Mexico, Portugal, Argentina, Germany, Spain, France and Ireland.^[1] Sordo ended the season in 4th place. At the end of the season, Guy Fréquelin resigned as team principal, and was replaced by Olivier Quesnel.

2008 season

Citroën C4 WRC at the 2008 Rally Catalunya

Loeb and Sordo continued as the team's drivers,^[1] whereas drinks company Red Bull joined the team as main sponsor. At the 2008 Monte Carlo Rally, Loeb won, while ^[4] Sordo suffered engine trouble, and was forced to retire, rejoining under the Superally rules.^[4]

The season culminated in the team winning both the drivers' (Loeb) and manufacturers' titles ahead of, respectively, Mikko Hirvonen and Ford. In a typically dominant year after the retirement of Grönholm, Loeb's eleven wins for the season, including a last-day success at the season-ending Wales Rally GB over erstwhile leader, Jari-Matti Latvala's Ford Focus, broke his existing 2005 record (10) for the greatest number of wins for one driver in an individual season, as well as bringing his own career total of WRC rally victories to 47. A still winless Sordo, with 65 points, nevertheless accomplished third in the drivers' standings.

2009 season

Loeb and Sordo were retained for the 2009 season. Loeb won the opening five events of the season, but suffered a mid-season drop in form and fell behind Mikko Hirvonen in the standings. However, he won the title by one point after winning the final two rounds of the season. Sordo finished third in the standings, scoring seven podium finishes, but still no wins.

2010 season

Loeb and Sordo were retained again for the 2010 season. Loeb won in Mexico, Jordan, Turkey and Bulgaria. Citroën Junior Team driver and Citroën protégé Sébastien Ogier won in Portugal, increasing the pressure on the still-winless Dani Sordo. Loeb took again the driver's crown for the 7th time in a row, while Sordo managed 5th. Alongside Loeb, Sordo and Ogier's performances Citroen took yet another manufacturer title.

2011 season

Loeb was joined by Ogier permanently for 2011, as he replaced Sordo. Ogier and Loeb took 5 wins each with the brand new Citroën DS3 WRC. Loeb finished again on top spot retaining his title for his 8th consecutive time while Ogier finished 3rd in the standings, Citroën also took the manufacturer crown.

2012 season

After Ogier's departure to Volkswagen, Mikko Hirvonen, former Ford driver, was signed by Citroën for 2012 driving the second DS3 joining Loeb. Loeb took his first victory of the season on the 80th Monte Carlo Rally, and secured wins also in, Mexico, Argentina and Greece. Mikko Hirvonen also won the Rally de Portugal but he was disqualifed for breaking the rules and regulations with illegal clutch and turbo.

2013 season

Red Bull dropped its sponsorship for 2013. The season started off with the Monte Carlo rally. Sébastien Loeb won his final Monte Carlo rally, whilst teammates Mikko Hirvonen and Dani Sordo were placed 5th and 3rd. In Sweden Hirvonen and Sordo both crashed out, and Loeb narrowly missed out on another win, as he was denied by fellow Frenchman Sébastien Ogier in the Volkswagen Polo R WRC. At Rally Guanajuato México Loeb (only competing in 4 rallies in his final WRC season) was absent and would not return until Rally Argentina. Sordo finished 4th with Hirvonen in 2nd. During the next event Dani Sordo pushed hard for his first victory, unfortunately whilst battling with Ogier he clipped a tree and that ended his challenge. Hirvonen then inherited a successive 2nd place finish. The 33rd Rally Argentina would see the return of Loeb, who took a commanding final victory.

During the first stage of the Acropolis rally Hirvonen's steering rack failed and came loose resulting in Dani Sordo leading the challenge for Citroën. Sordo eventually finished 2nd. In Sardegna the team struggled to take the challenge to Volkswagen, Hirvonen's DNF and Sordo's 4th place was a disappointing result. Because of a disappointing first half to the season, the team decided to give Ulsterman Kris Meeke a chance with the 3rd Citroën DS3 WRC in Finland. Sordo finished 5th, and Mikko Hirvonen in 3rd, despite a high speed, 6th gear spin. Meeke was instantly on the pace of the WRC regulars, even though he was held up by Qatar World Rally Teams's Evgeny Novikov. His rally ended in trees, when he rolled at high speed with only 1 stage to run. After a strong showing by Meeke, it left Sordo under pressure to perform, as not to lose his seat with the team. Hirvonen finished 3rd in Germany, a good result on tarmac, his least favourite surface. Sordo determined to win was involved in rally long battle with Belgian Thierry Neuville and Finn Jarri-Matti Latvala. It all went down to the final stage, Sordo held a slim lead, but held on to win his first ever WRC event. It also meant that the only Team to win ADAC Rallye Deutschland since its inception to the WRC in 2002, where the Citroën World Rally Team.

Meeke competed in Australia filling in for Sordo. Hirvonen had another consistent rally, but losing dropping from 2nd to 3rd on the final stage due to a puncture. Meeke yet again showed strong pace only to destroy his Citroën DS3 WRC after rolling down a steep bank. Rallye de France-Alsace would be the final rally of Sébastien Loeb's WRC career. The rally would see many different leaders and a rally long battle between, Loeb, Sordo, Ogier, Latvala and Neuville. Loeb's final rally ended disappointingly when he rolled the car into trees on the final morning. Sordo caim close to another win but missed out to Ogier. The next round in Catalonia would yet again see Sordo challenging for victory but broke the front left suspension on his car. Hirvonen managed to finish 3rd on the event. On the final event of the season Wales Rally GB, 2014 WRC2 champion and ex-F1 racer Robert Kubica made his WRC car debut. He rolled during the Hafren stage on Friday morning, and subsequently rolled again on the Dyfi stage Saturday morning. Mikko Hirvonen had a massive accident on the Myherin stage, which destroyed the car, luckily he and co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen were uninjured. Sordo had a disappointing final rally for the Citroën Team finishing 7th after a time penalty early on in the event.

2014 season

Citroën DS3 WRC at the 2014 Rallye Deutschland.

Norwegian driver Mads Østberg, Kris Meeke from Northern Ireland, and Khalid Al Qassimi from UAE, will be competing for Citroën racing in the upcoming season. They will be driving the DS3 WRC.^[5]

Citroën Racing was ranked second at the Championship, collecting height podiums during the season. It was their first winless season after 13 successful seasons in a row.

2015 season

Østberg and Meeke continued as factory drivers. Loeb made a guest appearance in the Monte Carlo rally. He challenged Ogier for win at first but punctured his tyre. Also Citroën's protege Stéphane Lefebvre drove for manufacturer points in Rally Australia, replacing injured Østberg, and he also drove a few rallies in the third factory car. Al-Qassimi drove several races during the season again.

Citroën's highlight of the season was absolutely Rally Argentina. All three VW drivers retired due to engine problems, and Meeke scored his career-first WRC victory. Østberg finished second and Al-Qassimi scored his season-best sixth place.

After the season, Citroën announced that they would withdraw from the 2016 championship, to use all their resources to developing their 2017 car.

2016 season

Citroën will spend 2016 by developing their new C3 WRC. Meanwhile, semi-works Abu Dhabi Total WRT will participate up to eight European rallies, including Monte Carlo and Sweden. Meeke, who has signed a three-year contract with Citroën, Lefebvre and Al-Qassimi will drive some races, as well as Craig Breen.

WRC results

JWRC

Year	Entrant	Car	No	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	JWRC	Points
2001	Citroën Sport	Citroën Saxo Kit Car	53	Sébastien Loeb	ESP 1	GRE 1								1st	50
		Citroën Saxo VTS S1600	53	Sébastien Loeb			FIN 1	ITA	FRA 1	GBR 1				1st	50
		Citroën Saxo VTS S1600	55	Niall McShea	ESP	GRE	FIN Ret	ITA 4	FRA 4	GBR 2				3rd	12
2002	Citroën Sport	Citroën Saxo S1600	56	Jussi Välimäki	MON Ret	ESP Ret	GRE Ret	GER Ret	ITA 9	GBR 5				15th	2
			62	Janne Tuohino	MON Ret	ESP 5	GRE 1	GER Ret	ITA 10	GBR 4				3rd	15
			65	Dani Solà	MON Ret	ESP 1	GRE 4	GER 1	ITA 3	GBR 1				1st	37
			70	Sven Haaf	MON Ret	ESP 13	GRE	GER Ret	ITA	GBR				–	0
2003	Citroën Sport	Citroën Saxo S1600	66	Sébastien Ceccone	MON Ret	TUR Ret	GRE	FIN	ITA	ESP	GBR			–	0
2004	Citroën Total	Citroën Saxo S1600	40	Guerlain Chicherit	MON Ret	GRE Ret	TUR 4	FIN Ret	GBR Ret	ITA Ret	ESP Ret			12th	5
2005	Kronos Racing	Citroën C2 S1600	35	Kris Meeke	MON 1	MEX	ITA 3	GRE 6	FIN 7	GER 2	FRA 8	ESP 7		3rd	32
2005	Kronos Racing	Citroën C2 S1600	41	Dani Sordo	MON 4	MEX	ITA 1	GRE Ret	FIN 1	GER 1	FRA 2	ESP 1		1st	53
2006	PH Sport	Citroën C2 S1600	32	Kris Meeke	SWE	ESP 3	FRA Ret	ARG	ITA	GER 1	FIN Ret	TUR 5	GBR Ret	7th	20
			42	Julien Pressac	SWE	ESP Ret	FRA 4	ARG	ITA 7	GER 4	FIN 4	TUR 7	GBR	8th	19
			55	Brice Tirabassi	SWE	ESP 9	FRA 1	ARG	ITA Ret	GER Ret	FIN	TUR	GBR	14th	11
2007	PH Sport	Citroën C2 S1600	33	Conrad Rautenbach	NOR	POR 10	ITA Ret	FIN 4	GER 3	ESP 5	FRA 8			8th	16
2008	Equipe de France FFSA	Citroën C2 S1600	42	Sébastien Ogier	MEX 1	JOR 1	ITA 5	FIN	GER 1	ESP Ret	FRA 2			1st	42

WRC Results (Group B era)

Year	Entrant	Car	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WDC	Points	WMC	Points
1986	Citroën Competition	Citroën BX 4TC	Jean-Claude Andruet	MON Ret	SWE 6	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE Ret	NZL	ARG	FIN	CIV	ITA	GBR	USA	36th	6	10th	10
			Philippe Wambergue	MON Ret	SWE Ret	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE Ret	NZL	ARG	FIN	CIV	ITA	GBR	USA	-	0
			Maurice Chomat	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE Ret	NZL	ARG	FIN	CIV	ITA	GBR	USA	-	0

WRC Results (WRC era)

Year	Entrant	Car	No	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points	WMC	Points
2001	Automobiles Citroën	Citroën Xsara WRC	14	Philippe Bugalski	MON	SWE	POR	ESP 8	ARG	CYP	GRC 6	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA Ret	FRA Ret	AUS	GBR			22nd	1	–	–
			15	Jesús Puras	MON	SWE	POR	ESP Ret	ARG	CYP					ITA Ret	FRA 1	AUS	GBR			11th	10
			15	Thomas Rådström							GRC Ret	KEN	FIN	NZL							15th*	6*
			20	Sébastien Loeb	MON	SWE	POR	ESP	ARG	CYP	GRC	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA 2	FRA	AUS	GBR			14th	6
2002	Automobiles Citroën	Citroën Xsara WRC	20	Thomas Rådström	MON Ret	SWE 37	FRA	ESP Ret	CYP	ARG	GRE 8	KEN 3	FIN Ret			NZL	AUS	GBR Ret			12th	4	–	–
			20	Jesús Puras										GER Ret	ITA 6						19th	1
			21	Sébastien Loeb	MON 2	SWE 17	FRA	ESP Ret	CYP	ARG	GRE 7	KEN 5	FIN 10	GER 1	ITA	NZL	AUS 7	GBR Ret			10th	18
			22	Philippe Bugalski	MON Ret	SWE	FRA 4	ESP 3	CYP	ARG	GRE	KEN	FIN	GER Ret	ITA Ret	NZL	AUS	GBR			11th	7
			25	Jesús Puras	MON	SWE	FRA	ESP 12	CYP	ARG	GRE	KEN	FIN			NZL	AUS	GBR			19th	1
2003	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën Xsara WRC	17	Colin McRae	MON 2	SWE 5	TUR 4	NZL Ret	ARG Ret	GRC 8	CYP 4	GER 4	FIN Ret	AUS 4	ITA 6	FRA 5	ESP 9	GBR 4			7th	45	1st	160
			18	Sébastien Loeb	MON 1	SWE 7	TUR Ret	NZL 4	ARG Ret	GRE Ret	CYP 3	GER 1	FIN 5	AUS 2	ITA 1	FRA 13	ESP 2	GBR 2			2nd	71
			19	Carlos Sainz	MON 3	SWE 9	TUR 1	NZL 12	ARG 2	GRC 2	CYP 5	GER 6	FIN 4	AUS 5	ITA 4	FRA 2	ESP 7	GBR Ret			3rd	63
			20	Philippe Bugalski	MON	SWE	TUR	NZL	ARG	GRC	CYP	GER Ret	FIN	AUS	ITA 8	FRA 9	ESP 10	GBR			23rd	1
2004	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën Xsara WRC	3	Sébastien Loeb	MON 1	SWE 1	MEX Ret	NZL 4	CYP 1	GRE 2	TUR 1	ARG 2	FIN 4	GER 1	JPN 2	GBR 2	ITA 2	FRA 2	ESP Ret	AUS 1	1st	118	1st	194
2004	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën Xsara WRC	4	Carlos Sainz	MON Ret	SWE 5	MEX 3	NZL 6	CYP 3	GRC 19	TUR 4	ARG 1	FIN 3	GER 3	JPN 5	GBR 4	ITA 3	FRA 3	ESP 3	AUS DNS	4th	73	1st	194
2005	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën Xsara WRC	1	Sébastien Loeb	MON 1	SWE Ret	MEX 4	NZL 1	ITA 1	CYP 1	TUR 1	GRE 1	ARG 1	FIN 2	GER 1	GBR 3	JPN 2	FRA 1	ESP 1	AUS Ret	1st	127	1st	188
			2	François Duval	MON Ret	SWE 12	MEX Ret	NZL 4	ITA 11	CYP Ret			ARG 7	FIN 8	GER 2	GBR 2	JPN 4	FRA Ret	ESP 2	AUS 1	6th	47
			2	Carlos Sainz							TUR 4	GRC 3									13th	11
2007	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën C4 WRC	1	Sébastien Loeb	MON 1	SWE 2	NOR 14	MEX 1	POR 1	ARG 1	ITA Ret	GRE 2	FIN 3	GER 1	NZL 2	ESP 1	FRA 1	JPN Ret	IRE 1	GBR 3	1st	116	2nd	183
2007	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën C4 WRC	2	Daniel Sordo	MON 2	SWE 12	NOR 25	MEX 4	POR 3	ARG 6	ITA 3	GRE 24	FIN Ret	GER Ret	NZL 6	ESP 2	FRA 3	JPN 2	IRE 2	GBR 5	4th	65	2nd	183
2008	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën C4 WRC	1	Sébastien Loeb	MON 1	SWE Ret	MEX 1	ARG 1	JOR 10	ITA 1	GRE 1	TUR 3	FIN 1	GER 1	NZL 1	ESP 1	FRA 1	JPN 3	GBR 1		1st	122	1st	191
2008	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën C4 WRC	2	Daniel Sordo	MON 11	SWE 6	MEX 16	ARG 3	JOR 2	ITA 5	GRE 5	TUR 4	FIN 4	GER 2	NZL 2	ESP 2	FRA Ret	JPN DSQ	GBR 3		3rd	65	1st	191
2009	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën C4 WRC	1	Sébastien Loeb	IRE 1	NOR 1	CYP 1	POR 1	ARG 1	ITA 4	GRE Ret	POL 7	FIN 2	AUS 2	ESP 1	GBR 1					1st	93	1st	167
2009	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën C4 WRC	2	Daniel Sordo	IRE 2	NOR 5	CYP 4	POR 3	ARG 2	ITA 22	GRE 11	POL 2	FIN 4	AUS 3	ESP 2	GBR 3					3rd	64	1st	167
2010	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën C4 WRC	1	Sébastien Loeb	SWE 2	MEX 1	JOR 1	TUR 1	NZL 3	POR 2	BUL 1	FIN 3	GER 1	JPN 5	FRA 1	ESP 1	GBR 1				1st	276	1st	456
			2	Daniel Sordo	SWE 4	MEX 14	JOR 4	TUR Ret	NZL 5	POR 3	BUL 2		GER 2		FRA 2	ESP 3					5th	150
			2	Sébastien Ogier								FIN 2		JPN 1			GBR Ret				4th	167
2011	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC	1	Sébastien Loeb	SWE 6	MEX 1	POR 2	JOR 3	ITA 1	ARG 1	GRE 2	FIN 1	GER 2	AUS 10	FRA Ret	ESP 1	GBR Ret				1st	222	1st	403
2011	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC	2	Sébastien Ogier	SWE 4	MEX Ret	POR 1	JOR 1	ITA 4	ARG 3	GRE 1	FIN 3	GER 1	AUS 11	FRA 1	ESP Ret	GBR 11				3rd	196	1st	403
2012	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC	1	Sébastien Loeb	MON 1	SWE 6	MEX 1	POR Ret	ARG 1	GRE 1	NZL 1	FIN 1	GER 1	GBR 2	FRA 1	ITA Ret	ESP 1				1st	270	1st	453
2012	Citroën Total WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC	2	Mikko Hirvonen	MON 4	SWE 2	MEX 2	POR DSQ	ARG 2	GRE 2	NZL 2	FIN 2	GER 3	GBR 5	FRA 3	ITA 1	ESP 3				2nd	213	1st	453
2013	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC	1	Sébastien Loeb	MON 1	SWE 2	MEX	POR	ARG 1	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA Ret	ESP	GBR				8th	68	2nd	280
			2	Mikko Hirvonen	MON 4	SWE 17	MEX 2	POR 2	ARG 6	GRE 8	ITA Ret	FIN 4	GER 3	AUS 3	FRA 6	ESP 3	GBR Ret				4th	126
			3	Daniel Sordo	MON	SWE	MEX 4	POR 12	ARG	GRE 2	ITA 4	FIN 5	GER 1		FRA	ESP Ret	GBR 7				5th	123
			3	Kris Meeke										AUS Ret							–	0
	Abu Dhabi Citroën Total World Rally Team		10	Daniel Sordo	MON 3				ARG 9						FRA 2						5th	123	6th	63
				Khalid Al Qassimi		SWE Ret		POR 9		GRE Ret	ITA 10		GER 11	AUS 9		ESP 11					21st	5
				Chris Atkinson			MEX 6														16th	8
				Kris Meeke								FIN Ret									–	0
				Robert Kubica													GBR Ret				13th	18
			14	Daniel Sordo		SWE Ret															5th	123
2014	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team	Citroën DS3 WRC	3	Kris Meeke	MON 3	SWE 10	MEX Ret	POR Ret	ARG 3	ITA 18	POL 7	FIN 3	GER Ret	AUS 4	FRA 3	ESP 19	GBR 6				7th	92	2nd	210
			4	Mads Østberg	MON 4	SWE 3	MEX 9	POR 3	ARG Ret	ITA 2	POL Ret	FIN Ret	GER 6	AUS 16	FRA 7	ESP 4	GBR 3				5th	108
			12	Khalid Al-Qassimi	MON	SWE 16	MEX	POR 13	ARG	ITA 10	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP 15	GBR				29th	1
2015	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team	Citroën DS3 WRC	3	Kris Meeke	MON 10	SWE 7	MEX 16	ARG 1	POR 4	ITA 24	POL 7	FIN 17	GER 12	AUS 3	FRA 4	ESP 5	GBR 2				5th	112	2nd	230
			4	Sébastien Loeb	MON 8																18th	6
				Mads Østberg		SWE 10	MEX 2	ARG 2	POR 7	ITA 5	POL 9	FIN 3	GER 7		FRA 6	ESP 4	GBR 7				4th	116
				Stéphane Lefebvre										AUS 13							19th	5
			12	Mads Østberg	MON 4																4th	112	-	-
				Khalid Al-Qassimi		SWE	MEX	ARG 6	POR 24	ITA 10	POL	FIN 16		AUS		ESP 15					13th	9
				Stéphane Lefebvre									GER 10		FRA 11		GBR				19th	5
2016	Abu Dhabi Total World Rally Team	Citroën DS3 WRC	7	Kris Meeke	MON Ret	SWE 23	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS			15th*	1*	-	-
			8	Stéphane Lefebvre	MON 5	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS			8th*	10*
			14	Khalid Al Qassimi	MON	SWE 19	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS			0*	-*
			15	Craig Breen	MON	SWE 8	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS			11th*	4*

Cars

Gallery

Sébastien Loeb – 2008 Rally Japan.
C4 WRC and Impreza WRC in the service park at the 2008 Jordan Rally.
1998 Rallye Villa de Llanes
2008 Monte Carlo Rally.
Sordo at the 2006 Rally Japan
2009 Cyprus Rally
Loeb at the 2005 Rally Cyprus
Citroën ZX Rally Raid, 5 times World Champion of Rally Raid

References

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↑ "Citroën Saxo Kit Car Specifications & History". Rallye-Info.com. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
↑ "BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Rallying | Loeb lands fourth straight title". BBC News. 2007-12-02. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
1 2 "WRC: Citroen boss: Loeb put in a perfect run". Crash.net. 2008-01-28. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
↑ http://www.citroen-wrc.com/en/2013/news/wrc-news/6832/kris-meeke-mads-ostberg-khalid-al-qassimi-compete-citroen-racing-2014/

External links

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Teams, drivers and events of the 2015 World Rally Championship

Categories within the World Rally Championship

FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers

FIA World Rally Championship-2 FIA World Rally Championship-3 FIA Junior World Rally Championship

Teams and drivers that are eligible to score manufacturer points

Volkswagen Motorsport (Volkswagen Polo R WRC)	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team (Citroën DS3 WRC)	M-Sport World Rally Team (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)	Hyundai Motorsport (Hyundai i20 WRC)

1. Sébastien Ogier 2. Jari-Matti Latvala	3. Kris Meeke 4. Sébastien Loeb 4. Mads Østberg	5. Elfyn Evans 6. Ott Tänak	7. Thierry Neuville 8. Dani Sordo 8. Hayden Paddon

Volkswagen Motorsport II (Volkswagen Polo R WRC)	Hyundai Motorsport N (Hyundai i20 WRC)	Jipocar Czech National Team (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)	FWRT s.r.l. (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)

9. Andreas Mikkelsen	20 Kevin Abbring 20. Hayden Paddon	21. Martin Prokop	37. Lorenzo Bertelli

Schedule of events

83ème Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo 63^rd Rally Sweden 29º Rally Guanajuato México 35º XION Rally Argentina 49º Vodafone Rally de Portugal 12º Rally d'Italia Sardegna 72^nd LOTOS Rally Poland 65^th Neste Oil Rally Finland 33. ADAC Rallye Deutschland 24^th Coates Hire Rally Australia 58. Tour de Corse 51º Rally RACC Catalunya – Costa Daurada 71^st Wales Rally GB

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