{"id":26543,"date":"2008-03-22T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T08:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/5671-latvala-would-be-new-gronholm-according-sebastien-loeb"},"modified":"2008-03-22T08:30:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T08:30:18","slug":"5671-latvala-would-be-new-gronholm-according-sebastien-loeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/5671-latvala-would-be-new-gronholm-according-sebastien-loeb","title":{"rendered":"Latvala would be the new Gronholm according to S\u00e9bastien Loeb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e9bastien Loeb recently stated in a foreign magazine that his main rival this 2008 season is not Mikko Hirvonen, No. 1 at BP Ford, but indeed Jari-Matti Latvala, whom he considers the new Marcus Gronholm.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning world champion could have had an almost easy season this year since the 2007 retirement of his main rival in the driver&#8217;s championship, Marcus Gronholm. But the Frenchman has found new competitors to challenge and fight against in every rally.<\/p>\n<p>Suspicions naturally focused initially on Mikko Hirvonen, who took the lead of the BP Ford team following Gronholm&#8217;s departure. However, the arrival of Latvala in the American-British team uncovered a new talent, already considered a future WRC rally world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Latvala created a surprise in Sweden by winning the rally, while in Mexico he was a very serious contender for the win before Loeb took advantage of favorable circumstances (Starting in second position without sweeping the dusty track).<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Latvala has proven to be faster than Mikko [Hirvonen] and as fast if not faster than Marcus [Gronholm] \u00bb, commented the Citro\u00ebn driver to Motorsport News.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab In Mexico, I had to push myself to the maximum to get ahead of Latvala, a bit like I had to do constantly with Marcus&#8230; \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Hirvonen is still not considered dangerous by the four-time French world champion. The Finnish driver is indeed leading in the championship points, but he has not yet won a rally this season.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think anything has changed about Mikko [Hirvonen]. He wasn&#8217;t as fast as Marcus last year and now he&#8217;s not as fast as Jari-Matti [Latvala], explains the Alsatian.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab When I took the reins at Citro\u00ebn as the number 1 driver, I didn&#8217;t try to find out what my responsibilities were or what I had to do. I tried to go as fast as possible and be the best, that&#8217;s what a number one in a team should do. \u00bb He concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e9bastien Loeb recently stated in a foreign magazine that his main rival this 2008 season is not Mikko Hirvonen, No. 1 at BP Ford, but indeed Jari-Matti Latvala, whom he considers the new Marcus Gronholm. The reigning world champion could have had an almost easy season this year since the 2007 retirement of his main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-26543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-autre-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Latvala would be the new Gronholm according to S\u00e9bastien Loeb - Motorsinside English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/5671-latvala-would-be-new-gronholm-according-sebastien-loeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Latvala would be the new Gronholm according to S\u00e9bastien Loeb - Motorsinside English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"S\u00e9bastien Loeb recently stated in a foreign magazine that his main rival this 2008 season is not Mikko Hirvonen, No. 1 at BP Ford, but indeed Jari-Matti Latvala, whom he considers the new Marcus Gronholm. 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