“I don’t need to tell you how much I rate Sébastien Loeb and how much he deserves to be the greatest. But I have to say not only him, all the world champions merit this recognition. But somebody has to win and, in this case, it has been myself.
“I gave everything to rallying. Rallying has been my life, rallying has been my dream and today rallying and the whole family of rallying is giving me a big smile and this big recognition,” he added.
Sainz won the title in 1990 and 1992 for Toyota before a well-known stint with Subaru. He rejoined Toyota before joining Ford in the early 2000s.- Full access
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