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Endurance: Sébastien Loeb at Le Castellet

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Khatir Soltani
Sébastien Loeb, who was forced to retirement in the very first day of rally Portugal, headed to Le Castellet on Friday to attend his racing team’s debuts in the opening round of the European Le Mans Series.

The eight time rally world champion went out on in rally Portugal’s ESS3 on Thursday night, then headed to south of France on Friday to attend the qualifying of the Le Castellet Six Hours, the opening round of the European Le Mans Series.

Eighth-time rally champion chatting with his Loeb Racing mechanics (Photo: Loeb Racing)
Eighth-time rally champion chatting with his Loeb Racing mechanics (Photo: Loeb Racing)

The Sébastien Loeb Racing is making its racing debuts this week-end, running an Oreca-Nissan LMP2 prototype with Stéphane Sarrazin, Nicolas Minassian and Nicolas Marroc. The car qualified 6th on the starting grid.
Khatir Soltani
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