Sébastien Loeb Racing will create his own racing team, which will make its debuts next year. With the objective to race at Le Mans 24 Hours in 2013 and 2014.
The seven-time rally world champion, who participates this week-end to the final rounds of the French GT championship at Le Castellet, will give a press conference to talk about this project. But the Citroën driver in WRC already gave some details to the French daily newspaper “Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace”.
The Sébastien Loeb Racing team, which has been created with Dominique Heintz, Loeb’s close friend who helped him to start his career in rally back in 1997, will run GT cars, presumably in the French GT championship in the beginning.
The objective is to learn and grow slowly in the championship, until Loeb ends his WRC career with Citroën. Dominique Heintz will manage the team during this two first seasons, and the team will run an experienced driver, alongside a younger one.
Loeb is preparing his career after WRC. “Racing one, maybe two years with Citroën lets us time to develop the team, he said to "Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace". When I will retire from rallying, I could concentrate myself on GT races. Somehow, I feel reassured. Because I could not see myself sitting in my couch doing nothing.”
“I wanted to discover a new world, he continued. I got a few tries already, through my experience in F1, in endurance and in GT Tour. The races are shorter, less demanding, they generate less stress. You can have fun at the wheel, without being constantly immersed in it. The idea is to grow at our rhythm… We’ll see where it takes us…”
The seven-time rally world champion, who participates this week-end to the final rounds of the French GT championship at Le Castellet, will give a press conference to talk about this project. But the Citroën driver in WRC already gave some details to the French daily newspaper “Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace”.
The Sébastien Loeb Racing team, which has been created with Dominique Heintz, Loeb’s close friend who helped him to start his career in rally back in 1997, will run GT cars, presumably in the French GT championship in the beginning.
The objective is to learn and grow slowly in the championship, until Loeb ends his WRC career with Citroën. Dominique Heintz will manage the team during this two first seasons, and the team will run an experienced driver, alongside a younger one.
Loeb is preparing his career after WRC. “Racing one, maybe two years with Citroën lets us time to develop the team, he said to "Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace". When I will retire from rallying, I could concentrate myself on GT races. Somehow, I feel reassured. Because I could not see myself sitting in my couch doing nothing.”
“I wanted to discover a new world, he continued. I got a few tries already, through my experience in F1, in endurance and in GT Tour. The races are shorter, less demanding, they generate less stress. You can have fun at the wheel, without being constantly immersed in it. The idea is to grow at our rhythm… We’ll see where it takes us…”