Sebastien Loeb has played down speculation he could follow up his all-conquering world rally career with a stint in formula one.<\/p>\n
Just as F1’s 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen was deciding to switch to the world rally championship late last year, seven-time consecutive WRC title winner Frenchman Loeb was eyeing his grand prix debut.<\/p>\n
But the 36-year-old has now told CNN that is it “too late” for him to seriously consider switching to formula one.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think it’s (a) potential for the future,” said Loeb.<\/p>\n
But he revealed he came close to driving for Toro Rosso in Abu Dhabi last year.<\/p>\n
Loeb said “everything was planned to do the last race of the season and the FIA didn’t give me the licence for that”.<\/p>\n
“Now I’m 36 years old and when you see some young drivers coming in, they’re 20 years old, so maybe’s it’s a bit too late.<\/p>\n
“If I have the opportunities to drive a formula one car, for sure I will take it, but I’ve got no plan to do a career in that,” he added.<\/p>\n
Loeb will rally again in 2011, but he is not sure what he will do beyond that.<\/p>\n
“I will maybe have some other plans, but not especially in formula one,” he said. Sebastien Loeb has played down speculation he could follow up his all-conquering world rally career with a stint in formula one. Just as F1’s 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen was deciding to switch to the world rally championship late last year, seven-time consecutive WRC title winner Frenchman Loeb was eyeing his grand prix debut. But …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,152,1425],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9732,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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