Sébastien Loeb, Daniel Elena and their Citroën C4 led from start to finish to win the 52nd Rallye de France - Tour de Corse, round 13 of the 2008 World Rally Championship. Citroën's Managing Director Gilles Michel was in Ajaccio to celebrate the four-time World Champions' tenth win of the season which sees them take a step closer to a possible fifth consecutive world title.Today's programme consisted of two attempts at 'Agosta/Pont de Calzola' (31.81km) and 'Pierra Rossa/Verghia' (26.32km), two classic Tour de Corse stages but this year run in the opposite direction to their usual format. In total, Sunday's menu featured 116.26km of competitive action which had the potential to spring a few surprises.The Citroën C4 WRC crew began the morning with a cushion of more than 50 seconds over their closest chasers and profited from the outstanding competitiveness of their car on the day's first test (SS13) which started with a steep climb up to the Col de Bellevalle, followed by a hairpin bend and the long, fast descent to Pila-Canale. After a short road section, they moved on to SS14 which featured a wide, good surfaced road up to the Col de Gradello, after which a celebrated sequence of three hairpins marked the beginning of the narrow, bumpy and very fast run back down towards Coti-Chiavari near the coast. The Citroën pair profited from the first loop to secure two further fastest times which enabled them to pull even further clear at the top of the leaderboard.
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