Citroen team leader
Sebastien Loeb will be determined to get a top result on the Rally d'Italia Sardegna this coming weekend after failing to score on the last event.
Loeb was leading by over 30 seconds on day two in Jordan, when he was forced out following a head-on collision with
Conrad Rautenbach's similar C4 WRC car on a road section leading to and from SS11.
Although he re-started on the final day and got to the finish, he was unable to score drivers' points, and is now five points behind
BP Ford Abu Dhabi's
Mikko Hirvonen.
Seb will now want to cut that gap and well Sardinia has been good to him in the past, and he has won it twice, in 2005 and 2006, last season he threw away what would have been his third win in a row, when he went off on the final day handing the victory to Marcus Gronholm.
The Frenchman is looking forward though, not back: "I'm not one to dwell on the past and last year's incident is well and truly behind us," he confirmed.
"This is a particularly selective rally which I enjoy very much, but this year we will need to see how our tyres perform without run-flat mousse."
"Our misadventure in Jordan is behind us, too," added the four-time world champion.
"We were on top and looking good to extend our lead in the championship, and here we are now with a five-point deficit to make up.
"We will be looking to start bridging that gap in Sardinia and I am encouraged by the C4's competitiveness over a broad variety of terrains, as well as by the work put in to adapt it to its tyres."
