What was intended as a 'thank-you' from a mutual sponsor for winning the World Rally Championship became a starting point for Red Bull Racing's winter testing programme as Sebastien Loeb's performance in Barcelona led to him providing useful feedback from his first serious outing in an F1 car.
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Citroen's Sebastien Loeb has retired from the Uddeholm Swedish Rally due to engine problems. The Frenchman re-started this morning under the SupeRally after crashing out on Friday in SS4.
Sebastien Loeb has said that it was a 'dream come true' for him to be able to drive a Formula 1 car on Wednesday, when he got behind the wheel of last year's championship-winning Renault R26.
![Toshihiro Arai (JPN), Subaru Impreza [Production WRC]. Rally Japan. 26-28th October 2007.](https://www.crash.net/s3/files/styles/img_400/s3/hires/388235.jpg?itok=en2YzKRB)
Sebastien Loeb has won the 2007 FIA World Rally drivers' championship following the Wales Rally GB, the final round in the series.
Triple world rally champion, Sebastien Loeb will get behind the wheel of a Renault F1 car next month. The Frenchman, who is currently preparing for this weekend's Rally Ireland, will do a couple of demonstration runs at the Paul Ricard circuit in the South of France.