Sébastien Ogier
Sébastien Ogier ( born December 17, 1983 in Gap ) is a French rally driver.
2008, the qualified instructors won the title of Junior World Rally Championship in a Citroën C2 S1600. For the next two seasons to him by Citroën Racing a C4 World Rally Car was made available. In the 2011 season he was a regular factory driver in the Citroën Total World Rally Team DS3 WRC Citroën and drove one. Since the 2013 season Ogier takes for Volkswagen Motorsport with a VW Polo R WRC at the World Rally Championship in part. In 2013, he is world champion for the first time.
Career
Ogier won the 2007 French Peugeot 206 Cup.
2008 JWRC title
In 2008, he competed in the Rally World Youth Championship in the World Rally Championship in a Citroën C2. There he not only won his debut rally, but won the first JWRC driver a World Championship point and secured at the end of the season the title. As a reward for winning the title he received at the Wales Rally GB 2008, the Citroën C4 WRC a chance to drive. There, he won his first special stage in a WRC car, which he in a WRC car the lead of the rally took over in his first race, to let him fall back gearbox problems in the scoring again.
2009 Junior Team
For the 2009 season Ogier received a contract in the newly established Citroën Junior Team. In this team, he was a successful junior rider. For participation in twelve rallies, he retired from in though four runs, but reached six times the points. His best result was a second place overall in the Rally of Greece. His 13 Wertungsprüfungsbestzeiten pointed to his talent. In addition, Ogier had welcome news during his first guest appearance in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge ( IRC). He had won this season for the first time, part of the IRC Monte Carlo Rally in a Peugeot 207 S2000.
2010 Junior Team and factory riders
Ogier drove in early 2010 as well as the former Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen in the Citroën Junior Team. In the Rally of Portugal, he won his first overall victory. Because it competitive on gravel subsoil was as the Citroën Total WRT works driver Dani Sordo, he was employed by Citroen at the last three gravel rallies of the season as a works driver. In Finland, he finished in second place. This was followed by the discharged on Asphalt Rally Germany, he played for the junior team and third overall reached the goal. When discharged on gravel Rally Japan, he won his second overall victory in the World Rally Championship. In the asphalt rallies in France and Spain, he finished sixth and tenth place. In the discharged as a seasonal closure Rally Great Britain, he traveled to second in the championship points table. He left there, lying in third place, due to an accident and slipped into the World Cup back to fourth place.
2011 factory driver in the DS3 WRC
In 2011 Ogier now changed as a regular driver in the Citroën Total World Rally Team and starts, together with his teammate and seven-time World Rally Champion, Sebastien Loeb, Citroën DS3 WRC with a in the World Rally Championship. In Rally Sweden 2011, which was characterized by heavy snowfall and many punctures, he achieved the fastest Citroën driver, in front of the former World Rally Champion Petter Solberg, his own team-mate Loeb and the final in eighth place Kimi Raikkonen fourth goal. In this rally, he secured, the first driver in World Cup history, the three bonus points of the Power Stage. In the second rally of the season in Mexico, there was a duel for victory between Loeb and Ogier. Multiple changed the overall lead between them. Ultimately, different from Ogier at the 20th of 22 stages, when he collided with a big stone and thereby the suspension heavily damaged. On March 27, won Ogier, at the third round in 2011, the Rally of Portugal in 2011 for the second time and took third overall victory of his career. This was also the first double victory of the year for Citroën dar. At the next rally, 16 April 2011, he won the Rally Jordan his fourth rally in a World Championship race, and in addition the Power Stage, as he was the first driver the full number of 28 -to-reach points in a rally. When, as the fifth race of the World Rally Championship discharged, Rally Sardinia, the Ogier in their own words " never liked ", he found his rhythm and finished fourth in the overall standings. At the following Rally Argentina, he was 43.7 seconds ahead of Loeb in the lead, turned over with his car on the 16th of 19 stages, continued the race with the heavily damaged vehicle continued (eg: no power steering) and crossed the finish line in third place. In the discharged Next Rally Greece won Ogier after he dropped back for tactical reasons twice in order to have a more favorable starting position the next day, ahead of his teammate Sébastien Loeb both the overall standings and the Power Stage and thus won the only driver for the second time 28 points of the drivers' World Championship. The Rally Finland finished Ogier after a puncture on the third place overall. After his first victory in a tarmac rally, the Rally Germany 2011, Ogier took over behind his teammate second place in the drivers' world championship. This success Citroën became the most successful manufacturer in the history of the World Rally Championship. At the next discharged Rally Australia Loeb lying in the lead had a five-fold impact on the fourth special stage. The first vehicle on the track, with two seconds ahead of his teammate, Loeb compared his and the intermediate times of his following, the display and slowed down before a bend too little. The guide went on to Ogier. In this situation, he would have the opportunity to gain the championship lead. Ogier crashed but during the sixth special stage. On the extremely muddy and slippery by rain Dirt Road he went off the road and collided with a tree. Both driver and passenger were unhurt. The overall lead went over to the Ford factory drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jari -Matti Latvala. Overnight, could the two DS3 WRCs repaired and made ready to start. Under SupeRally Regulations Ogier started with 20 minutes time penalty from the sixteenth starting place and Loeb with 30 penalty minutes as a twenty-first into the next day. Latvala took over on the first special stage of the day the lead from his team-mates. It seemed as if Loeb 2009 would reach the first time since the rally Greece no championship points placement. Ogier's chances of championship points were better. Until the penultimate special stage of the next day, the positions of the first three riders did not change. Ogier had meanwhile been working until the ninth place overall and the chance was to take the eighth place from the slower vehicle in front of him PWRC large. Loeb was now driven up to the twelfth grade. In this special stage team order was both Ford and Citroën one allowed in rallying issued. Latvala held just before going to give 28 seconds and victory to Hirvonen destination. Ogier conceded aware of a 50- second time penalty when he started 5 minutes late at this special stage and then parked next to the track and lost deliberately additionally over nine minutes to Loeb to allow a championship point. After this double win for Ford Ford, reducing the deficit in the manufacturers' world championship on 62 points. Mikko Hirvonen was now 15 points behind Loeb in the drivers 'championship in second place and Ogier slid, with a gap of 14 points back to Hirvonen to third place in the Drivers' World Championship. The fact that the Citroën factory team Ogier exchanged possible eighth against a tenth of Loeb, implication was that Ogier was taken out of the fight for the Drivers' World Championship. Since Loeb retired in the Rally of France, Ogier took over from him the lead and won, after several leadership changes with Dani Sordo and Petter Solberg, finally, the fifth World Cup race of the season. Thus he secured back into second place in the championship table and built - in isolation - for his team the lead in the Manufacturers ' standings from. After the rally he was in the championship standings three points behind his teammate. Loeb took victory at the next rally discharged Catalonia. Ogier had much luck at this rally. He had two times a puncture and was eliminated because of technical defects, on the penultimate stage of final. With 29 points behind, before the last rally, he could no longer hope for the world title. His team won in Spain clinched the Manufacturers' World Championship titles. His teammate won in Wales the eighth Drivers' Championship title. Ogier finished the local rally in eleventh place, but secured the three bonus points days of power. He finished the 2011 season on the World Cup third - place overall.
Mid-2011 announced the abolition of the FIA - the championship leader discriminatory - Starting order regulations. Thereupon Ogier's team-mate Loeb decided to stay in the World Rally Championship and extended his contract in the team. Until then, as Loeb 's successor funded and partially preferred Ogier felt at a disadvantage and wanted in a team where he could go against Loeb to the World Cup. In November 2011 it was announced that Ogier's contract was terminated. For the 2012 season the Citroën Total World Rally Team undertook the long-standing Ford works driver Mikko Hirvonen as the new No. 2 driver alongside Loeb. Ogier had received at this time still no contract with another team.
As of 2012, the change to Volkswagen Motorsport
A few days after the termination of the contract at the Citroën Total World Rally Team was announced by Volkswagen Motorsport, that Ogier 2012 with the Skoda Fabia S2000, which shares with the Polo WRC floor pan, transmission, differentials and driveline, will participate in all World Cup races. It has signed a contract for three years. Parallel Ogier will be involved in the progression of the VW World Rally Car with. In the Monte Carlo Rally in 2012 Ogier showed up again when he drove up to the class to a weaker Škoda S2000 from twelfth to fourth overall and doing some World Rally Cars left behind. But on the last special stage of the first day he left in the battle for fifth place. In the subsequent ten starts - in New Zealand, he did not take part - the rally season Ogier took ten consecutive class victory. In Sardinia succeeded Ogier became the first driver ever, with a S2000 car to win a special stage and therefore the previously unmatched fifth place overall with a vehicle of this class.
Nine wins and driver World Champion 2013
In excellent form Sébastien Ogier drove the new Volkswagen Polo R WRC by the World Rally Championship in 2013. Only in Monte Carlo, Argentina, Greece and Germany, he had to concede victory to the competition. Already in the 11th World Championship race, in France, Ogier was able to fix the title. In the second to last world championship race in Spain, Ogier won with his team-mates Jari -Matti Latvala and Andreas Mikkelsen also the Manufacturers' Championship for Volkswagen. Sébastien Ogier and for his co-driver Julien Ingrassia an extremely successful season in 2013.
Race of Champions
2011 Ogier won the prestigious Race of Champions ( RoC ) in the ESPRIT arena, the RoC title, called "Champion of Champions".
Achievements
- 2013: 1st overall in the World Cup
- 2012: 10 overall in the World Cup, achieved with an underpowered S2000 vehicle.
- 2011: 3rd overall in the World Cup
- 2010: 4th overall in the World Cup
- 2009: 8th overall in the World Cup
- 2008: FIA Junior World Rally Champion
- 2007: Winner of the French Peugeot 206 Cup