Citroen returns to WRC in 2007

After a full season of absence this year, Citroen once again has announced formally that it will come back to the WRC in 2007. Citroen has been very busy developing their new breed of rally car, the C4 WRC, as a replacement to the highly successful Xsara WRC. Sebastien Loeb has been very much involved with developing of what is to become his next rally car in the 2008 season, after he and co-driver Daniel Elena, has been reserved the seats for one of the two manufacturer scoring cars. The other seat goes to Dani Sordo and Marc Marti, who were also nominated to score points in Japan this year.

The exciting part of this news is how ready is the C4? Is it tough enough, worthy to be named as successor to the Xsara? The Xsara was way successful already, and a proof to that, Kronos is running a Xsara that is mostly 2005 spec. Yet, Ford and Subaru is having a hard time outscoring Citroen for manufacturer's title in the WRC, with their new,totally re-engineered 2006 spec cars.

Citroen's success in 2005 as a manufacturer team, and this year under the private team of Kronos, can all be attributed to a well-engineered car, and a very skilled driver in the person of Loeb. If the C4 performs as well, Citroen is set to dominate the WRC for the next season, with Loeb and Elena adding a lot of points to their record, as they are now the most succesful driver and co-driver in the entire history of the WRC. We'll see how this new machine perform against the Fords and the Subarus, and later with Suzukis. Monte Carlo will be waiting.