# Citroën C4 WRC

The Citroën C4 WRC is a World Rally Car built for the Citroën World Rally Team by Citroën Racing to compete in the World Rally Championship. It is based upon the Citroën C4 road car and replaced the Citroën Xsara WRC. The car was introduced for the 2007 World Rally Championship season and took the drivers' title in all four seasons it participated in at the hands of Sébastien Loeb between 2007 and 2010, as well as the manufacturers' title in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
The C4 WRC and Loeb maintained a 100% record on asphalt events during its WRC career, winning all 13 pure asphalt rounds of the World Rally Championship.

## Competition history
### 2007

The car made its debut at the 2007 Monte Carlo Rally in the hands of Citroën World Rally Team drivers Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Sordo. Loeb won the rally after leading throughout, with Sordo finishing as runner-up, with the pair winning the first nine of 15 stages. Loeb went on to win seven of the remaining 15 rallies that season to beat Ford's Marcus Grönholm to the title by nine points. Sordo finished fourth in the standings.

### 2008

Citroën retained Loeb and Sordo in their team for 2008, with Loeb winning 11 out of 15 rallies to take the title, while Sordo finished third in the standings. This was enough for Citroën to regain the manufacturers' crown.
C4 WRCs were also run by privateer squad PH-Sport for Conrad Rautenbach and Urmo Aava during the season, as well as for Junior World Rally Championship winner Sébastien Ogier at the final event of the season, Rally GB. Ogier lead the event early on despite it being his first in a WRC car.

### 2009

In 2009, Loeb and Sordo once again drove for the factory squad, with Loeb winning the first five events of the year and then winning the final two to beat Ford driver Mikko Hirvonen to the title by just one point. Sordo finished a solid third as Citroën retained the manufacturers' title.
PH-Sport ran a second team of C4 WRCs under the Citroën Junior Team banner for Rautenbach and Ogier, with Evgeny Novikov, Chris Atkinson and Aaron Burkart also appearing under the banner during the year. Petter Solberg ran an old Xsara WRC for his own team for most of the season, before switching to a C4 WRC for the penultimate round, and was then entered under the Junior Team banner for the final round of the season.

### 2010

Loeb and Sordo continued with the factory team into 2010, while the Junior Team ran Ogier and Kimi Räikkönen. Ogier, though, had a strong start to the season (including a win in Portugal) and so was swapped with Sordo for gravel rounds in the second half of the season. Ogier then won the 2010 Rally Japan as a factory driver. Räikkönen achieved his first career stage win with the C4 at the 2010 Rallye Deutschland.
Petter Solberg drove a C4 WRC for his own team and picked up eight podiums over the season, finishing third in the final standings, ahead of works drivers Ogier and Sordo, and behind eventual world champion Loeb.

## WRC victories

    No. Event Season Driver Co-driver 1 2007 Monte Carlo Rally 2007 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 2 2007 Rally Mexico 2007 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 3 2007 Rally de Portugal 2007 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 4 2007 Rally Argentina 2007 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 5 2007 Rallye Deutschland 2007 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 6 2007 Rally Catalunya 2007 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 7 2007 Tour de Corse 2007 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 8 2007 Rally Ireland 2007 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 9 2008 Monte Carlo Rally 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 10 2008 Rally Mexico 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 11 2008 Rally Argentina 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 12 2008 Rally d'Italia Sardegna 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 13 2008 Acropolis Rally 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 14 2008 Rally Finland 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 15 2008 Rallye Deutschland 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 16 2008 Rally New Zealand 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 17 2008 Rally Catalunya 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 18 2008 Tour de Corse 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 19 2008 Wales Rally GB 2008 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 20 2009 Rally Ireland 2009 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 21 2009 Rally Norway 2009 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 22 2009 Cyprus Rally 2009 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 23 2009 Rally de Portugal 2009 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 24 2009 Rally Argentina 2009 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 25 2009 Rally Catalunya 2009 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 26 2009 Rally GB 2009 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 27 2010 Rally Mexico 2010 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 28 2010 Jordan Rally 2010 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 29 2010 Rally of Turkey 2010 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 30 2010 Rally de Portugal 2010 Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia 31 2010 Rally Bulgaria 2010 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 32 2010 Rallye Deutschland 2010 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 33 2010 Rally Japan 2010 Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia 34 2010 Rallye de France 2010 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 35 2010 Rally Catalunya 2010 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena 36 2010 Wales Rally GB 2010 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena

## Gallery

* Citroën C4 WRC at the 2006 Paris Motor Show.
* Sébastien Loeb at 2007 Rally Catalunya.
* Urmo Aava at 2008 Rallye de France.
* Sordo at 2008 Rally Catalunya.
* Loeb at 2009 Rally Cyprus.
* Sébastien Ogier at 2009 Rally Australia.
* Petter Solberg at 2010 Rally Bulgaria.
* Kimi Räikkönen at 2010 Rally Bulgaria.