Sebastien Loeb’s incredible feeling at the flying DTM starts in Portimao caused quite a stir: Now he has released a video of his onboard camera
Now the 48-year-old record-breaking rally world champion has self-published a video on his social media accounts, showing for the first time the brilliant re-start at the first DTM race from the AF-Corse driver’s onboard camera.
“Who said that a rally driver doesn’t know how to overtake?”, the Frenchman comments on the video with a wink in his status message. The onboard recording shows how much feeling Loeb first pulls ahead of some cars on the left and then also positions himself perfectly when braking for the first corner, although he has hardly any experience with flying starts.
In total, Loeb made up eight positions on this lap. “There was some commotion in front of me, I got through and had a good start,” he said in a video interview, describing the situation.
At the AF-Corse team, where Loeb replaced regular driver Nick Cassidy in Portimao, who was competing in Formula E in Monaco, the video was a perennial favourite last DTM weekend, as Reichert revealed, “The onboard camera of Seb at the restart in the first race was the video I watched the most this weekend. “
Qui a dit qu’un pilote de rallye ne savait pas dépasser ?!
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– Sébastien Loeb (@SebastienLoeb) May 15, 2022
Loeb was “not anticipating the start, but anticipating what was going to happen on the track in front of him, where the other cars were going, who might have contact,” Reichert said, during his recovery that took him from 21st to 13th in one lap. “He drove as if he knew exactly what was happening.”
Of course, Loeb also benefited from the starting problem of the leading Grasser Lamborghini driver Mirko Bortolotti, which caused a chain reaction in the field, but the motorsport whiz kid, who will be back in the Ford next weekend at the Portugal Rally after his Monaco triumph, still surprised the entire DTM paddock.
