Club Arnage

Seb has announced that he will not be driving the Pesca this year.
http://www.sebastienloeb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=9

Ahhh.. cant get the fastest car ::) so les dollies are hoofed out of le pram... just race it and put your foot down!!!

Now that's a bit unfair. At first tell good ol' Henri to drive for free, and then withdraw from the whole event :-\

Prehaps if they made it a rally cross event, he might have ago.

probably had an offer for le grand frere on TF1 ;D

I used to like him.. but just shows what he really is >:(

this might make it a bit more quiet at LeMans :)

You think  :-\ Don't forget a certain French manufacturer will be there for the 1st time in a whil

Pity, but oh well. Someone else will get the call now.

I always get the impression Loeb is fairly genuine, considering his position within the sport, he seems to speak honestly and without all the 'glitter' of other drivers (not just rallying but other disciplines aswell).

But maybe I am only seeing and hearing the good stuff.

Always strikes me as a pretty genuine sort of bloke - there is possibly also a large hint in there about Citroen's role in it, who "wouldn’t have stopped me from racing, but they weren’t too happy about it and I understand their position".  When they're paying the bills and expect a world rallly championship to be delivered.........plus for a Citroen team driver racing with a privateer French team to be beaten not just by Audi but probably Peugeot too would, I imagine, not sit particularly well with the Citroen.

MG Mark

Hadn't realised that one of the Pesca's will be a diesel too!!!

I tend to agree with Mark.  What began as a "one off" for Seb was maybe getting too serious for Citroen.  It's a pretty diplomatically worded statement, no doubt there's a lot more going on behind the scenes than meets the eye.  M. Loeb has always struck me as fairly straight but I can't say his personality bothers me much one way or another.  He remains one of the most impressive drivers I have ever seen in rallying - certainly since the change to 4WD.  And seriously cute.... :P

Definatley Citroen stopping him if you ask me :-X
have to say though that Solberg is my favourite rally driver love his dead pan attitude when the subaru breaks again and again

what a pity! With his success in Rallyes and his 2nd place in le Mans he has proofed to be a real allrounder, a very rare species!
Hope he comes back one day...

Neither of the Pescarolos will be a diesel, Sebastiens website translator made a bit of a boob. Both will be Judd powered.

If "cute" means baisable, then I prefer Mlle Ickx, or as a rally driver, Michelle Mouton. ;)

Don't fancy either of them myself, Christopher (although the great Ms Sheep is my all-time heroine)... can't think why. ;)

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/56784

The report in AutoSport is that one of the pesca's will be diesel pwered.

But seeing as there is no mention of it anywhere else, this would be big news I think, and the seeming lack of a viable private diesel, I agree that it could be a mistake.................

But you never know, maybe Pesca has got something up his sleave and Leobs statement is very clear that one of the cars is deisel.

He also states there will be 3 Audis, 2 Joest and one Champion?

If it is true, then it will be the big diesel battle this year. Just wonder what engine will be in the back of the Pesca then? Surely not the Caterpillar diesel we saw in 2004.

Let's just hope for an interesting battle this year In LMP1, cause frankly, the last years were pretty dull. Watching the GT1 made more sense to me.

Oh yes, the Taurus.  It blew lovely black smoke rings  ::)

Check DSC out, they phoned up Henri and asked him straight out and he said Loeb didn't know what he was talking about.

I think this reflects more on the quality of Autosports journalism.

Lifted from DSC I hope they don't mind.

A diesel-powered Pescarolo? Quoi?

Time to talk to Henri Pescarolo.

“I don’t know what Sebastien means,” says Henri. “For sure we won’t have a diesel-powered car. Both of our cars will be Judd-powered. I know that Sebastien is not happy with the diesel rules, and hopes that the rules will change for next year. This year he is going to concentrate on his C4.”

So that clears up that puzzle.

NB. Claude Foubert points out that it seems to be a simple translation error: the original French text makes no reference to a Pescarolo diesel, but suggests that the five diesel cars and the lead Pescarolo will be highly competitive.

Seb told Ouest France (local newspaper) at the weekend that he may in fact still drive at LM. ???