The frustration of the Citroën Junior Team

He had a real opportunity to climb onto the podium. But on the morning of the last day, orders were given to Sebastien Ogier to be ahead at the start of the final stage in order to sweep past Sébastien Loeb, and help him win his second victory of the season. A decision which inevitably made some people unhappy, like Benoît Nogier.

“I'm not a fan of racing tactics, declares the team manager of the Citroën Junior Team to Autosport. Since the beginning of rally, we have to constantly help the main team and we don't really do the rally without tactics. Each time we have to think about what we do, to make sure we don't penalize Loeb or anyone from them. We have to constantly send target times to the car. The first day we let Sébastien (Ogier, editor's note) drive normally without sending him a target time because we wanted to stay ahead of Sébastien (Loeb, editor's note). For us, it's a very big disappointment, we have to penalize Sébastien (Ogier, editor's note), and it's not fair for him.

An understandable disappointment, certainly shared by his driver, now fifth in the drivers' world championship standings.