Monte Carlo was an epic duel between two giants of rallying and a perfect way for the hybrid Rally1 era to begin, especially as fears over chronic reliability for the new generation of cars proved largely unfounded
But there was still the final Power Stage to come – only for Ogier to jump the start and earn a time penalty. That meant Loeb and co-driver Isabelle Galmiche won by 10.5sec – but without that penalty, which Ogier accepted with good grace, the gap would have been just 0.5sec…
It was an epic duel, then, between two giants of rallying and a perfect way for the hybrid Rally1 era to begin, especially as fears over chronic reliability for the new generation of cars proved largely unfounded.
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