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Nine-time world champion Sebastien Loeb, 47, made history as the oldest winner of a WRC rally in the season opener in Monte Carlo on Sunday.

Loeb, driving an M-Sport Ford, took the lead on the penultimate stage when French rival Sebastien Ogier, who was over 20 seconds ahead, suffered a puncture.The previous oldest WRC winner was Swede Bjorn Waldegard, who took the 1990 Safari Rally in Kenya at 46 years and five months old.

"I feel really happy! I didn't expect so much when I came here, but it was a great fight," said Loeb who was partnered by co-driver Isabelle Galmiche.Irishman Craig Breen, in another M-Sport Ford, rounded out the podium. Ogier, 38, is only due to race in a small number of events while Loeb made a rapid return from finishing second in the Dakar Rally to take part in Monte Carlo.

 

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