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Argentina – Post-event press conference

Drivers: Sebastien Loeb/Daniel Elena (Citroen Total World Rally Team), Dani Sordo/Marc Marti (Citroen Total World Rally Team), Henning Solberg/Cato Menkerud (Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team)

Team principals: Olivier Quesnel (Citroen Total World Rally Team)

Q:
Seb, this is your fifth Rally Argentina victory in a row and your fifth victory of the season; yet another great event for you.

Sebastien Loeb:
Yes, it has been a great weekend for us; no problem with the car and it has been a very difficult rally for the cars, it was very rough in some stages, especially the second pass. The stages were really tricky, and it was very easy to make some mistakes. We had some moments in the fight on the first and second day but finally no problem, no mistakes and we are here. But it was not so easy.

Q:
Let's talk about the first day, because we had a battle between four drivers. We saw four different drivers taking the lead of the rally. What was it like for you participating in it?

SL:
Of course it was very exciting, when you're fighting you are driving as fast as you can or fighting one second or half a second, it is very exciting and you have to give everything you can and that's not easy, but it's really good when it is like this.

Q:
At the end of Day 1 you were in third position overall, sixteen seconds behind the lead. By the third stage on the second day you were leading. How much were you pushing on the second day to get that lead?

SL:
The same as in the first day, but the road conditions were not the same. The first day was completely dry so I had to clean (the road). I couldn't do better than what I had done and the second day was going better in the Mina Clavero stage, it's very twisty, very long. Finally I was in a good rhythm with the stage and I had to concentrate to be flat out from the start to the end, and we've done a really good time so we took the lead. After that second pass Mikko had some trouble and then it was a bit different, we had a good lead and that was something else. We didn't have to push too much.

Q:
A shame the fight was over from our perspective but for you it was a good thing I suppose.

SL:
No! It was the same as for you. I was happy to fight with him (Hirvonen). I think he didn't deserve that, it was a good fight. It was very tight in the start of the rally because he's doing very well since the start of the Championship. I beat him every time and it was always a good fight and now he lost the points. It's a problem but it is motorsport.

Q:
Will your strategy change at all for the events that follow, now that you have such a big lead in the Drivers' Championship, or is it business as normal?

SL:
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