The world champion was already in impressive Monte Carlo company but does an eight win move him clear of the rest Words by if Sébastien Ogier takes a ninth victory at next year’s Monte Carlo Rally he’ll have won 10% of all the Montes ever run I know statistics can be massaged for the benefit of the message but a 10% win rate across a 111-year-old event would surely indicate the Gap man’s the best there’s ever been on the world’s most famous rally it’s incredibly difficult to compare generations the route’s undergone enormous change and the level of competition varies from season to season would Jean Trévoux have compared with Ogier Trévoux won his first Monte in 1934 as a co-driver but then switched seats to guide a 3.5-liter Hotchkiss cabriolet to match that feat from behind the wheel in 1939 the French-built machine wasn’t much of a match for last week’s winning Toyota Yaris WRC – but Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia didn’t drive their entry car from Athens on a concentration run either… One record Trévoux did beat the defending champion to was to become the first driver to win three Monte Carlo Rallies in three different decades (as well as from both seats in the front of the car) Colin Clark and I banged on about Ogier’s achievement in taking victory in the noughties with winning drives in 1949 (the next event after 1939 having skipped a decade due to the Second World War) and 1951 and tipping the hat to the likes of Erik Carlsson and Björn Waldegård we arrive into the early 70s to meet a man called Munari The Italian’s first victory came at the wheel of a Lancia Fulvia in 1972 There’s little doubt the 1600HF was outclassed by the more rapid Porsches Alpine-Renaults and Datsun 240Zs around it but Munari kept the car in the middle of the road and won by way of reliability and rally craft His second win was the start of a glorious hat-trick in a car which was definitely a match for anything else on the stages: Lancia’s Stratos HF ’76 and ’77 there was nothing and nobody to touch Munari his popularity with Lancia team principal Cesare Fiorio helped when it came to any decisions about which of the Ferrari-engined machines the Italian firm wanted first at the finish Anybody worried about handing out the Monte Carlo king tag to a driver winning with one manufacturer Röhrl’s innate natural ability allied to one of the most deep-thinking and capable rally brains made for a Monte-dominating combination Having won the 1980 event by 10 minutes in a Fiat 131 Abarth he was forced to sit out the following year’s rally after Mercedes pulled out of the World Rally Championship at the last minute he took on the rally’s most complicated job and ran as an ice note crew for Jochi Kleint Twelve months on and he was back armed with an Opel Ascona 400 to show up Audi’s all-wheel drive Quattro There was another Quattro-eclipsing performance aboard a Lancia 037 in 1983 Those two-wheel drive wins were undoubtedly eased by the absence of winter it was the Bavarian who forgot everything he’d learned about driving rear-wheel drive for the previous 18 years learned to brake with his left foot and showed everybody the way home from the left-hand seat of a factory A2 had it not been for a catastrophic tire choice on the first run through the Col St Raphael stage on the penultimate day Röhrl’s record would have read five from six The German would regret fitting inters beneath his rally-leading Quattro Sport after just two of the stage’s 17 miles allowing the Peugeot 205 T16 driver to power past him in the stage and on the leaderboard Röhrl is a genuine Ogier rival in terms of being the greatest driver ever on the Monte Carlo Rally But Vatanen’s 1985 fightback win rivals any individual victory in the history of the sport The Finn was leading by four minutes when co-driver Terry Harryman checked them into a Gap control early Instructing Harryman to tighten his belts and telephoning his wife Rita to ask her to fly from Finland to support him he set about winning the rally all over again Carlos Sainz is a driver whose approach to this most challenging of rallying conundrums mirrors that of Röhrl Sainz simply wouldn’t stop testing until every single tire combination and every suspension set-up had been tested in every single condition After finishing second on only his second start on the Monte in 1990 the Spaniard topped the Monaco podium three times in seven years between 1991 and 1998 he was only off the podium once (dropping to 14th after crashing his Repsol-backed Lancia Delta HF Integrale late in the 1993 event) and finished second three times and third once That’s an impressive and sustained record on the Monte it was almost immediately eclipsed by a record-breaking run from Tommi Mäkinen Mäkinen went unbeaten to become the first driver to take four successive Monte victories A record like that makes it impossible not to count the Finn among the finest But it’s also worth remembering that Tommi’s 2002 win with Subaru is the one Sébastien Loeb counts as the half in his 79.5 World Rally Championship wins “I won this rally on the stages,” said Loeb Twelve months on and Loeb lead home a historic Xsara WRC one-two-three (above) heading his more illustrious team-mates Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz Loeb landed a hat-trick of wins and looked well set to continue that trend into 2006 he built a 1m16s lead over Ford’s Marcus Grönholm when he slipped off the road on the Pierlas stage on Friday night In a modern-day equivalent of Vatanen’s fightback the Alsatian’s Kronos-run Xsara tore back through the field with a perfect second day and a further three stage wins on Sunday to narrow the gap to a minute to the Finn’s Ford “Maybe it’s a good time for this rally to finish now…” said a relieved-looking Grönholm at the finish as he won four WRC-counting Montes on the bounce The event’s decision to duck out of the world championship – favouring instead the freedom to do what it wanted with its route under the Intercontinental Rally Challenge rules – opened the door for victories at the sport’s second level Ford Fiesta S2000) and Bryan Bouffier (2011 Peugeot 207 S2000) could now count themselves as Monte winners But it was the man who won the 2009 event that really caught the eye then defending Junior World Rally Champion Ogier guest-drove Peugeot’s 207 S2000 to a comfortable debut win on the event It would take another five years before Ogier was back in the principality’s winners’ circle but from then on the Gap star didn’t look back and was only beaten by an on-form and inspired Thierry Neuville in 2020 It’s a very fair question to ask what Loeb’s Monte tally would have been had the Automobile Club de Monaco not departed the WRC for those three years – there’s little to indicate his domination wouldn’t have bridged that gap to take his own tally to 10 wins What we do know is that Ogier’s win last weekend makes him the most successful driver in the history of the rally But it’s also important for him that he’s also the man who’s won it the most with different manufacturers (Peugeot The numbers support him and who are we to argue with the numbers Volkswagen Motorsport director Jost Capito was on the lookout for a present to celebrate Sébastien Ogier’s maiden World Rally Championship Ayrton Senna and Ducati combined to provide the answer A Ducati 1199 Panigale S was duly delivered It’s why his crash helmet still carries the famous red double-S It’s why his latest Monte Carlo Rally win means so much “Senna was always the one when I was young He was my idol and the greatest motorsport hero ever.” Having watched the Brazilian win on the streets of Monaco the principality held a special place for Ogier And now the two feature on the same page of the Automobile Club de Monaco’s record books Ogier continued: “This place has always been unique for me for many He (Senna) still has the record here [for Formula 1 wins] and I join him a little bit with this record and that makes me proud.” Ogier’s eighth victory was the latest and one of the greatest – a win carved in the style of his hero Ogier’s Saturday morning run from La Bréole to Selonnet the one where he took 17.8 seconds out of everybody would stack up nicely against Senna’s 1988 Saturday shot from Boulevard Albert 1 to Boulevard Albert 1 the one where his MP4/4 was 1.427 seconds faster than anything else It was also a win which added another dimension to Ogier’s dream His first Monte win came on his debut on the event 12 years ago Number eight made him the most successful driver ever on the rally “I have exceptional emotion to win this rally,” said Ogier “This is the rally that gave me the dream to be a driver one day The rally I watched as a kid and back then I was dreaming just a one day have the chance to do it Collecting eight trophies from this rally is something I would never think of and I am very proud of.” What’s better is that it still runs out of Gap backyard “I definitely I have a good feeling for this rally,” he added “Probably being born in the Alps helps me to have this connection with the mountain with this winter condition we have to face A bit shorter than normal in terms of kilometres but for the condition it’s one of the hardest I had to face It was so difficult to read; the gravel crew was passing very different condition to what we had and the level of grip sometimes is incredibly low To be in Monte Carlo at the finish is already an achievement so whoever is here can be proud to be here.” It’s that challenge and that emotion that means DirtFish is willing to wager we’ll definitely see Ogier back for round one in 2022 The champ’s chat about a return was more defined on Sunday “that I start this rally again in the future The championship is not on my list anymore but rallies like Monte Carlo can definitely still be.” He’ll always be very welcome back between the mountains he’s made his own – and in the principality where he shares a record and a dream with his hero Sign up 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A stone pebble cut like a diamond, a mineral forecourt that reaches out to draw in passers-by, a glass facade like an ever-changing skyscape, gilded like copper, words from the old French dictionary engraved into the glass panels, illuminated by curtains of woven metal: La Passerelle, a new cultural space for Trévoux slots into the gap next to the hospital like a missing piece of the puzzle creating a perfect blend of history and contemporary architecture The programme is inspired by the town’s rich literary and architectural heritage culture and sharing which brings together a music school and a multi-purpose room fitted out as a cinema The challenge for the design team was to produce a contemporary facility that would be open to the town and today’s world confrontation this project makes the history of this town on the banks of the river Saone visible for all to see © Studio Erick SailletA sustainable legacy © Alessandro ClemenzaA mixed programme – simple organisation © Studio Erick SailletDiscreetly obvious bringing it to life whilst preserving the river views They are suspended from guide rails and can slide across each other They are the result of research carried out with the designer Sophie Mallebranche The irregular mesh creates effects which change according to the time of the day and the season The solidity of the renovated facade of the hospital is emphasised by its proximity to the fragile The aim is to restore its initial clarity and appearance by adopting the original proportions of the floor framework (by recalibrating the bays and fitting windows into the attic space) and removing some recently added components The Pavillon des Arts and the north-facing facade are clad with Massangis stone a type of limestone whose grey and beige colour blends in both with the hospital and the golden stones of the buildings in the old town The overall composition of the north-facing facade has been worked so as to emphasise the alignments fluting and the proportions of the openings On the Pavillon des Arts the layout of the smooth stone cladding has been used to accentuate the pebble effect You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email Strengthening the bond between you and the University and the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau along with three leading French higher-education institutions namely ISC Paris; 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