page_title: Citroën World Rally Team
section_title: 2004 season
hierarchical_section_title: Citroën World Rally Team / History / 2004 season
caption_attribution_description: Sébastien Loeb driving his Citroën Xsara WRC during the shakedown of the 2004 Cyprus Rally.
context_page_description: The Citroën Total World Rally Team was the Citroën factory backed entry into the World Rally Championship, run by Citroën Racing.
context_section_description: Citroën reduced their team for 2004, dropping McRae. Loeb won the Monte Carlo Rally, the Swedish Rally, the Cyprus Rally, the Rally of Turkey, Rallye Deutschland and Rally Australia. Sainz won at Rally Argentina. Loeb won his first Drivers' championship. The team took the Manufacturers' championship. Sainz won on Rally Argentina and finished fourth in the standings.
  The team expanded their efforts in the JWRC with the Citroën C2 S1600.
caption: Citroën Xsara WRC at the 2004 Cyprus Rally
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