World Rally champ Sébastien Loeb has decided not to take part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race this year, due to his WRC commitments.

The WRC, we are told, is all about new frontiers. Boldly going where no man has gone before and all that – which is certainly not a description you could apply to the local working girl who was looking for customers in the hotel bar last night.

Dust. It’s something that keeps cleaners in business (apart from mine, who seems has a curiously selective blindness to the stuff) and it’s what we will all be reduced to once we meet our Maker.

Just how do you go about winning a championship? Let’s ask Sébastien Loeb, who is well on the way to his sixth. “If you ask me, I can’t really tell you,” he says. Well, thanks, Seb.

WRC champion began the day in third place, behind his team-mate Dani Sordo and Mikko Hirvonen and finished the day 58.6 secs in front.

Last year, Conrad Rautenbach finished fourth in the Rally Argentina in just his second time out in the Citroen C4. This year, he's finding it harder, but he's going to fight to the end.

For Conrad Rautenbach, who, like Sébastien Loeb, drives a Citroën C4 WRC in the World Rally Championship, the wilds of Argentina hold no fear.

In a magnificent two-fingered salute to lily-livered tofu-eating sportsmen worldwide, five-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb lists his favourite food and drink as 'steak and red wine'...

World champion Sébastien Loeb has a fourth consecutive victory in his sights in Portugal.

As the WRC arrives in the Algarve for the Rally de Portugal, the obvious question is: just who can stop the charge of Sébastien Loeb?

If ever there was an emphatic statement of intent, Sunday's Norwegian rally win for Sébastien Loeb was it.

The WRC champion adds yet another string to his bow with Norwegian win.