World Rally Championship legend
The Frenchman has a sentimental attachment to the picturesque Great Rift Valley terrain where he finished fifth in the 2002 WRC Inmarsat Safari Rally navigated by
The nine-time WRC champion made a comeback to top tier rallying during January's WRC Monte Carlo Rally where he beat rival and compatriot
Loeb is tackling his first gravel rally of the 2022 season in an M-Sport
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Loeb is part of a six-car M-Sport World Rally Team line up for Safari alongside Briton
Loeb told www.autosport.com this week: "The first feeling in the Puma on gravel at our test was quite good, I was quite happy with the feeling I had as we worked on the suspension and the differential setups," said Loeb, who is also set to participate in the WRC's 50th season celebrations this weekend.
Loeb is the most successful driver in the World Rally Championship (WRC).
He won the world championship a record 9 times in a row and holds several other WRC records, including most event wins, most podium finishes and most stage wins.
Loeb retired from full-time WRC participation at the end of 2012. He currently drives part time in the WRC for M-Sport
Originally a gymnast, Loeb switched to rallying in 1995 and won the Junior World Rally Championship in 2001.
He was signed by the Citroën World Rally Team for the 2002 season, and together with co-driver Elena racked up their maiden WRC win that same year at the Rallye Deutschland.
After finishing runner-up to
Still with Citroën, Loeb went on to take a record ninth consecutive world title in 2012.
Loeb is a tarmac expert, having won all but three of the WRC rallies on that surface in which he has participated between 2005 and 2013.
In 2018, Loeb won the Spanish round of that year's World Rally Championship, in a rare entry six years after his retirement as a full-time WRC driver.
WRC Safari Rally Kenya is being sponsored by
The event will revolve around Nairobi and Naivasha covering a total distance of 1226.23km
Shakedown returns to
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