GT: Rally ace Sebastien Loeb to race a McLaren

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Nine-time FIA World Rally Champion, Frenchman Sebastien Loeb will contest the 2013 GT Sprint series behind the wheel of a McLaren.

Loeb will be driving an MP4-12C of the GT3 category, the supercar produced by the McLaren Group.

McLaren MP4-12C GT3. (Photo: McLaren Group)

The Frenchman already drove one alongside Gilles Vannelet at the circuit of Paul Ricard Le Castellet in Framce last October in the last round of the French GT-Tour. The MP4-12 was run by Von Ryan Racing but entered under the Sebasien Loeb Racing banner.

The GT Sprint series will replace the World GT Championship from 2013. The series features two one-hour races over a weekend, with two drivers per teams and pit stops of tires.