FILE PHOTO: Rallying - Dakar Rally - Stage 6 - Riyadh to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - January 7, 2022 Bahrain Raid Xtreme's Sebastien Loeb during stage 6 REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
(Reuters) - France's Sebastien Loeb won the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally on Sunday to become, at 47, the oldest driver to win a round of the world championship.
The nine-times world champion, driving for M-Sport Ford in his first rally since 2020 after retiring from full-time competition in 2012, took a record-equalling eighth career Monte Carlo victory after late drama for rival Sebastien Ogier.
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