That was how much it cost Sébastien Ogier to launch a glittering rally career that has to date delivered seven world drivers’ titles. That fired his passion for rallying, but it was watching his uncle compete that first grabbed Ogier’s attention as a toddler. “But then comes a day when you realise that at the end that also politics is also playing a big part in our sports and, of course, in my young years I was not the best to handle it. “There were some years where, for sure, it cost me also a bit to be a bit too honest and a bit too direct in the way I was talking, but it was part of the learning maybe.

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